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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it $200 a month for an occasional board? Find a new place to board--I thought our fees were steep!

Training will eventually go away as a cost. Can you try a cheaper food? We had to test a few to find one that worked well for our large-breed, but once we did it was a huge money saver. (Ours now eats Costco's Salmon Meal & Sweet Potato grain-free formula and has done really well on it.)

Is the puppy the one with hip dysplasia? If not, I'd look into pet insurance for him/her. If you've got a breed that's prone to joint issues, you might well get good use out of a policy, and it's much cheaper to get for a one-year-old dog.[/quote]

This is not at all unrealistic for boarding. I've never seen a dog boarding place for under $40/nt for my medium sized dog.[/quote]

Sure, but that's a weekend away every month. Not occasional. (Totally fine to do that, I should note, but then in your budget you put "one weekend/month boarding, or equivalent" and you aren't surprised to see the $1200 total at year's end, because that's a lot of travel.)[/quote]

Not really. If you factor in 3 weeks away a year, seems pretty normal averaged out over the year. 2 dogs 3 weeks, plus a few 3 day weekends? She also had large breed dogs, so the boarding is probably at a minimum $50/ea a night. Not exactly worth of clutching pearls over.[/quote]

OP specifically said only one of the dogs gets boarded -- the other goes to his parents.  So at $50/night the one dog is boarded 48 nights a year, or 7 weeks.  That's not occasional at all.[/quote]

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