Cat food help?

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Sir 1000

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I'm not particularly sure if this is the right forum but it seems the closest fit and i don't know anywhere else to try😰. My family owns multiple rescue cats and we love the furry little monsters to death. However feeding them is unfortunately becoming a problem. They aren't going to starve or anything but money is tight and they only eat so much dry food. We have been looking for a bulk deal of one of the wet foods they eat.

We were trying to find a few hundred cans with some bulk savings of either fancy feast or the sheba cutlets. As cat food can last awhile and we know it won't go to waste. The problem is we can only find packs with at most a 24 ct for around 15$. Which only lasts about a week, even with dry food to stretch. I'm hoping that maybe someone here could point me to somewhere we could buy a few hundred cans and save some money?
 
Sir 1000 said:
I'm not particularly sure if this is the right forum but it seems the closest fit and i don't know anywhere else to try😰. My family owns multiple rescue cats and we love the furry little monsters to death. However feeding them is unfortunately becoming a problem. They aren't going to starve or anything but money is tight and they only eat so much dry food. We have been looking for a bulk deal of one of the wet foods they eat.

We were trying to find a few hundred cans with some bulk savings of either fancy feast or the sheba cutlets. As cat food can last awhile and we know it won't go to waste. The problem is we can only find packs with at most a 24 ct for around 15$. Which only lasts about a week, even with dry food to stretch. I'm hoping that maybe someone here could point me to somewhere we could buy a few hundred cans and save some money?
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I have some local friends who are in the same position. They have a deal with a local butcher to get scraps and bones they give to their animals. You may want to see if you can get a similar contact.

In the local case, they also get the huge ball of fat around the kidneys of cattle and pass them to me, which I make old-fashioned lye soap from.
 
Good luck, I have just scoured the web and the biggest pack of canned cat food I can find is a sixty pack.

Also are they picky about what brand of food?
 
Maybe this is a stupid/naive question - but have you tried asking animal shelters in your area where do they buy?
Maybe you could arrange to piggyback on their orders? As they order in bulk (?) they could/should be getting discounts.
Ask local supermarkets/pet shops what do they do with "about to expire" catfood?
 
Buba said:
Maybe this is a stupid/naive question - but have you tried asking animal shelters in your area where do they buy?
Maybe you could arrange to piggyback on their orders? As they order in bulk (?) they could/should be getting discounts.
Ask local supermarkets/pet shops what do they do with "about to expire" catfood?
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Thanks bro, i was gonna try that next if no one knew an online outlet. Our cats are picky as shit and only eat fancy feast and the sheba cutlets with the occasional dry food. We've tried just the dry food and several types of human food, but after a meal of that they just sit next to us and cry for hours next meal😭
 
Another hint, which might not be helpful at all :(
Check around if there is some sort of warehouse near you
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To join you need to be a small business person, but at least in my jurisdiction if one begs/steals/borrows a membership card from a member, then nobody checks it evah. Hence if you do not qualify, ask an acquaintance who does to enroll and then filch a card off him/her.

Mind you, in my experience such outlets are not always (meaningfully) cheaper, this varying by article.
I've found that for some products supermarkets offer the same prices and/or - during promotions - lower.
My family forbid me to buy housebrand (you can put a "cheapskate old sods 'r' us!" banner next to my username) catfood at the outlet I use, as the felines thumbed their noses at it and meowed insults at us in cat. The prices for branded catfood were a bit lower than our neighbourhood supermarket, though.
 
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Buba said:
Maybe this is a stupid/naive question - but have you tried asking animal shelters in your area where do they buy?
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This may or may not work, as animal shelters can get corporate donations as long as they show up with a truck.
 
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