Cats Can't Complain

We've had Pippin for about two months now. He's on his second bag of food and third container of litter. We have 7 mice, 6 jingly balls, 2 wands, and one FroliCat.

Here's the run down on how much he's cost so far:

Fortunately for us, Pippin doesn't have a sensitive stomach and will eat just about anything, so I'm able to buy any brand of cat food depending on what's on sale (provided it meets my health requirements). We also go the extra mile to NOT feed him people food, so he likes his food all the more. There are always coupons for the brand of litter we use. Between coupons and sales, I've probably spent less than $15 on cat food, and litter is about $6 and lasts for 3 weeks. And we buy toys from the dollar store - 3 mice for $1, 2 jingly balls for $1, bam. Lots of toys.

Cat for 2 months (excluding pet deposit and our negligible start-up costs): $5 on toys + $15 on cat food (and there's still over 10lbs left for the month to come) +$18 on litter = $19/month.


But, the real point of this post is refrigerator magnets. Not the chip clip kind, or the cutesy best-friend's-bridal-shower memorabilia, but those cheesy magnetic letters you buy for your nephew, Little One, so he can learn his alphabet.

Pippin discovered these such letters the other day. He was sliding them around on the fridge, then, when he managed to get one off, would bat it around on the floor, pick it up and carry it in his mouth, play with it in the living room, and it would ultimately end up under the couch, the fridge or the stove. The process would then repeat. At a certain point, Pippin lost all his marbles magnets, and B had to [attempt to] fish them out. Pippin helped.

All of this to say that I've realized that pets are only expensive if you make them that way.  Pippin probably doesn't even need dollar store cat toys. He seems to like refrigerator magnets better, anyway. In fact, it's harder now to get him to play with those dollar store mice! Side note, I also threw an old contact case, and he chased it around for 20 minutes. It appears that as long as it's a different color than the floor and relatively small, it's good enough for Pippin!