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raccoon

(31,126 posts) Wed Mar 25, 2015, 10:08 AM Mar 2015

Inflation of cat care costs. Yesterday I paid 16.50 to board my cat for a day (not even overnight)

in a HALF-condo (not even a whole condo).

Last time I had to board her--a year ago--it was 11.50.

That's a 30% increase.

I wonder sometimes about retirement. Because it seems like if one figures they can retire at a certain time, the way things keep
going up so much...not so many years down the road they might have trouble trying to make ends meet.

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Inflation of cat care costs. Yesterday I paid 16.50 to board my cat for a day (not even overnight) (Original Post) raccoon Mar 2015 OP

We once paid more to board our three dogs in a "pet resort" than our hotel for one night. femmocrat Mar 2015 #1

Wow! I Just Went To Cleveland. . . ProfessorGAC Mar 2015 #2

That's a bargain in our area. Five years ago, I paid $75 to board my two cats for one... MANative Mar 2015 #3

Once, long ago, we had a friend who said they'd come to our house once per day Trillo Mar 2015 #4

Is it wrong to think that the friendship was over instantly? Kalidurga Mar 2015 #5

No, but we learned something about them personally that we didn't know prior. Trillo Mar 2015 #7

I'm curious why you couldn't leave the cat home for the day nt riderinthestorm Mar 2015 #6

I live in a small apartment, and the carpet was to be cleaned. I'd be at work. raccoon Mar 2015 #9

Why would you need to board your cat for a day? alcibiades_mystery Mar 2015 #8

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

1. We once paid more to board our three dogs in a "pet resort" than our hotel for one night.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 10:11 AM

Mar 2015

Never again. We found a local person who has more affordable rates. It's still not cheap though!

ProfessorGAC

(65,212 posts)

2. Wow! I Just Went To Cleveland. . .

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 10:19 AM

Mar 2015

. . .on business and took my dog. I stayed at a Motel 6 near the site i was visiting and paid only $51 (including tax) for both us in a whole room.

$16.50 seems pretty high.

MANative

(4,112 posts)

3. That's a bargain in our area. Five years ago, I paid $75 to board my two cats for one...

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 10:22 AM

Mar 2015

overnight stay. If I hadn't found someone (a neighbor, whom I gave $100 and he slipped it back under my door) to sit for them for the remainder of the week, it was going to be $475. And this was not a luxury anything. The other place in town was a significant chunk higher. Don't remember the actual dollar figure, but it was at least $100 more. My timeshare exchange was only half that.

Trillo

(9,154 posts)

4. Once, long ago, we had a friend who said they'd come to our house once per day

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 10:45 AM

Mar 2015

to check on our cat, while we drove to another state to visit family. We were gone for a week. I had left enough food and water for the cat for the whole week, made sure there were several litterboxes available, but mainly wanted our friend to give the cat some company and interaction.

After we got back home, we learned that our friend asserted they had been so busy with work they never came over even once during that time. Our cat was okay, but damn, this was a person we thought we could trust to do what they said they would do.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

5. Is it wrong to think that the friendship was over instantly?

Reply to Trillo (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 10:48 AM

Mar 2015

I am as protective of my critters as I am small children.

Trillo

(9,154 posts)

7. No, but we learned something about them personally that we didn't know prior.

Reply to Kalidurga (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 10:58 AM

Mar 2015

Yes, we were mad as heck for a while, and the friendship cooled. That cat only lived for about 3 years, eventually he came down with FIP, and even the vet couldn't save him. We still miss him.