"our costs have gone up amidst am inflationary environment and we have had no choice but to increase prices. Oh hey don't look at our financial statements, the fact that we made record profits is irrelevant."

Purina = Nestle

More than mildly infuriating! Was probably 30ish pre COVID. And constant supply issues. Have to run all over to find locally. And I'm in LA. Shouldn't be hard to keep one of the worlds largest economies in supply, right?

Full stop the best thing I did was talk to a pet nutritionist and getting a meal plan made for my boy. Super affordable, easy to make up in bulk and freeze each week - and honestly it feels good to feed my boy something that resembles actual food. Turkey, carrots/zucchini, rice and vitamin powder - all told about an hour each week to prepare, portion out and freeze; and I'm pretty dang sure it comes out cheaper than the dried stuff in the long run.

Yikes 😬

35 LB isn't even that much if you have a medium dog.

I've spent the last year trying to figure out if it's actually the prices or if I've become one of those "When I was a kid, gasoline was 25 cents a gallon" old men.

the CEO needs a 3rd yacht. work harder peasants!

Cat food too. My cat needs a special food that a year ago cost 42€. It's 56€ now :/

What’s the recourse? Do we start feeding our dogs homemade dog food instead?

What’s even more fucked is the alternative of making your own dog food isn’t an option because human food is expensive af too! Want to try to eat healthy? Fuck you

I have an elderly dog (Boston Terrier) that eats wet food only and can't eat chicken or grain. Her food is currently costing me about $200 a month. It's rough. I mean, worth it because she's amazing and I want her around as long as possible, but it's rough and I am lucky that I can afford it at the moment.

Yeah, cat food has gone up too :( Medium bag for like 30 dollars

I agree, used to be under 50 bucks for the biggest bag we could find at the store. Now it's well over 75.

I got lucky one time and got it for 35. But I also seen it at that price before.

The feed I buy for my ducks increased by $5 in the past year and the bags went from 50 lbs to 40. My birds usually through 80lbs of feed in 2.5 weeks. I'm spending so much on feed, that I've been giving them wild bird seed(which is $10/20lbs) and grass clippings(free) as snacks during the day. It cuts down on how much feed they eat. Next year they are going to get an entire garden dedicated to their diet. I got the seeds this year, but didn't start them early enough.

bro its brutal in these streets

that sucks

In my country we have 120% anual inflation or even more by some estimates. It's awful living like that, I tell you that

I wish companies would be transparent in their supply chain logistic costs.

Financial news is flooded with “X multibillion dollar company hitting record breaking profits compared YoY” type headlines. Sure some companies might be taking advantage of “inflation” to bump the price of products and pocket the profit but some others might actually need to bump their price to stay competitive.

With no insight into this, it’s impossible to discern which companies are scumbags and which ones are just surviving.

I worked in a pet supplies store about a year ago, and I was nonstop hearing complaints about the prices going up.

Yikes. A similar sized bag of dog food in my area is like $30 tops, and that's the most expensive kind.

Yeah we've been dealing with the same. My only option has been to switch dog chow over to a Purina blend at Sam's. It's literally 29 USD as opposed to PetsMart at over 80.

Yeah, and my food (Nutro) not only keeps increasing their price, but lowering the amount. Went from 32lb bag to 28lb

It makes me really sad because my girl passed away last year and my boy is getting bored and wants a friend but I just can't afford to pay for the food. I've been thinking about fostering senior pitbulls instead because I would have a better chance of hanging on to them until they passed away if I fostered seniors. At least the Foster company pays for any medical treatment and food that the dog needs

At what point is it going to become cheaper to feed them chicken leg quarters?

my dogs on prescription food. it hurts to buy

God damn. My girl passed away a couple years ago. I honestly don't know if I could afford to continue to feed her if she was still alive - this was the exact dog food she got.