How long do supplies last?

[Lizzie]

Royal Canin Indoor Adult, 15# bags, 3 per month (~$125)
Friskies canned, 8 cans per day (~$110)
Royal Canin SO, 5# bag lasts about 2 months & is for Taranis only (~$15)
Can't afford treats for obvious reason.
Litter is wood stove pellets at about $6 per bag, use 1 per week.
Newspaper for the disabled cats I get free from the library when they are discarded.

Since I have 8 foster cats, I often get the pellet litter from the shelter which saves me a bit, and if I'm really hurting some months I'll get a bag of Hills dry from them to mix in with the Royal Canin.

I haven't bought toys for at least a year because I can't afford them but the old ones are fine and they love things like crumpled paper balls, avocado stones, grocery paper bags, pens, large hair clips, and each other.

I get part of a sofa bed and they get most of the bed, two sofas, one love seat, one day bed, a number of soft armchairs and padded side chairs, floor cushions, a couple of low chests padded with comforters, two desks, two tables, and the lower shelves of several bookcases and shelf units. And now that I write this I'm wondering how much of my home is mine!

[krazyaboutkatz]

A 15.4lb bag of Innova Evo lasts almost 1 month. They only get 1/2 cup or a little less of dry food a day. Pearl doesn't eat much. She'd rather play than eat. Sunny gets less dry because he wants the canned. When I buy the dry, I buy at least 2 bags at a time.

A 5.5oz can of Innova Evo lasts about 2-2 1/2 days. Storm gets most of it and I mix his with water. Sunny gets his mixed with dry food and water.The others get a small amount every night. It's very rich so a little goes a long way. I buy it by the case so this lasts me quite a while.

I buy the 40lb bags of Dr. Elsey's Precious Cat Litter and I have 6 litter boxes. I don't always throw out all of the old litter each time and they don't always use all 6 litter boxes. One 40lb bag probably lasts me 3-4 weeks or so.

I don't buy treats any more. I do use pill pockets which I cut up into 1/4's to use for pills that Storm and Sky take every day.

They have so many toys that there's no way that they can play with them all. Pearl loves straws and Ziggy and Sky love pipecleaner spiders. I haven't bought any toys for a long time.

They have so many beds, boxes, cat trees, and cat condos that they can always find a good place to sleep.

[slick]

Hmmmmm:

FOOD:
1 x 2.3 kg bag Medi Cal Reduced Protein lasts about 3 months - that is free feed dry
In addition to that Max eats 1 small tin of Fancy Feast per evening

LITTER:
Ha! 1 x 14 lb bag Feline Fresh clumping will last about 8 months.....

(Don't forget, I only have one kitty who only pees about 3 times a day and poops once) I have two litter boxes

TREATS:
one bag will last about a month

TOYS:
He doesn't do toys any more...... they were all shipped to Winnie and Angel

Yes, my furbaby lives pretty cheaply

[mruffruff]

12 inside cats and 6 to 8 outside cats= monthy purchase of:

3 28 lb boxes of Arm & Hammer Multi-cat litter
65 cans of wet food every month
9 envelopes of 'special' wet food
12 packages of Whisker Lickin's
1 3lb bag of Fancy Feast for treats
1 16 lb bag of Nine lives
1 16 lb bag of Precise dry

Toys: many small mice that I've had for ages
A string tied around a knee high
a couple of balls with bells in them (only used after bedtime)
Several small stuffed animals
a brush arch
3 circular toys with a ball in the track
Wobble toy with a feather on top
battery operated laser toy that sits on the floor and sends a light to various places

Dry Precise is in free feeders in the house all the time. The inside cats get wet food once a week, Fancy Feast as treats at bedtime and Whisker Lickin's in the morning.

2 cans of wet food are mixed with Nine Lives every night for the outside cats. They also are free fed dry food. Sometime the possums or raccons get fed.

One envelope feeds two special cats for two days, with water added. More like a treat for being good indoor-outdoor boys.

Beds? Chairs, sofas, cat trees, end tables, kitty condos, shelves, cat beds, dining room chairs, desks, window perches, or any flat surface. Always better if it has a soft throw on it. Even the outside cats have wooden boxes with blankets.

They used to congregate on my bed, sometimes as many as 5 at a time. Unfortunately, someone kept peeing on the furniture so now only the two sleep with me and the door is closed the rest of the time.

I need to get a life