50 plus pounds of dog food in two weeks? Every month I take one of the kids with me when we get the dog and cat food. The cats get 24 pounds, the dogs get 50 pounds. Every month I also have to buy an extra bucket, because the cats can't eat 24 pounds of cat food every month, so I have 4 buckets of catfood, 3 of them are filled, 1 is empty the last is just under half full. The dogs I normally have to buy a new bucket every other month to take the over flow. So they have 8 buckets for their food. 50 pounds fills almost 3, 5 gallon buckets. And the dogs normally only consume about 2 maybe 2 and half buckets of food a month. So as you see, every month I run a surplus. Except this month. I just checked and I have 5 empty dog food buckets. FIVE!?!? It should only be 2.
So detective work was done. MY Ex who lives a stones throw (Literally) away from me has a new dog. And he is putting on weight like gangbusters. And so is Kilo a dog I got from a friend. Kilo has gone from 3 pounds to now 7 pounds in less than 2 months and all of it feels like muscle. He is finally able to go outside and play with the other dogs where before he was stuck in a small apartment. Hugo, (My ex's dog) has gone from about 13 pounds to a very stout 20 pounds in the 4 months he has been here. He also can run outside and play with the other dogs.
So know I need to put an extra $25.00 into the budget every month for an additional 50lb bag of dog food.
I think when I go to the store thursday, I'll take all of the kids. There is no way I'll be able to push a shopping cart with 124 lbs of dog and cat food in it. And I'll have to buy a couple more buckets just in case.
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