How to Save Money on Pet Food

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I have several cats, and I find that pet food can be very expensive, especially if canned food is used. For people who feed their pets dry food, this article may not be of much help, but it might add some interest into the menu. The technique I use the most to cut down on cat food costs is to mix both dry and wet food together. If your cat loves Fancy Feast, or Sheba, you might find that by using a top-end dry food such as Blue or Goodlife (grain free), mixing half and half, you are able to afford to keep buying the best foods, as they go much farther, and pets seem to like the crunchy mixed in with the creamy. This method also provies variety. For my cats, I rotate various wet foods with various dry foods. They never quite know what they will be getting. One benefit of mixing dry with wet is that a straight dry diet can be a contributing factor in urinary tract infections, as some pets do not get the moisture they need. Adding wet into the dry helps alleviate this to some degree. Whether it is just using a sprinkling of the dry, or a small bit of the wet, the interest your pet will show is often notable. I use this technique with "real" tuna, at about half and half. While real tuna is more expensive, spreading it out like this makes it go a lot fartther, and the cats are getting a good variety of vitamins as well, as I use one of the expensive cat foods from a pet supermarket. Even if I give them a bit of "junk" food, like Friskies, I try to mix it in with a better food. This is worth trying, as my several cats almost always eat whatever I mix up for them.