we are a nation with pets often lots of pets but we can't take them everywhere and leaving them behind while you're out of town costs a fortune a fox fi team state of foul has a look at a new report about whether boarding or having an in-house sitter is the best option uh financially and it depends on what city you're in honestly you know for a lot of schools right now next week is spring break right and I'm on social media and I am seeing a whole lot of last minute desperate attempts to have pe
ts boarded p owners do one of two things they board or they have a pet sitter who comes into the house whether it's a cat a dog heck maybe you got a fet I don't know somebody's got to feed them pet them love on them let your fur baby out right cipet studied the costs of this and Atlanta was one of the cities in their small 2023 study the company used the prices from rover.com considered a single pet a medium-sized dog and the choice was having a sitter into your home or taking your pet to the si
tter's place so it's limited but it is a look in Atlanta if you choose to board you can save annually almost $300 with this option over having a sitter Dro by your place this is considering you take the equivalent of a two-e vacation over a year in the first spot there's Philly and then LA and yes there's a list of cities where boarding is not a savings at all but no matter the route it's expensive again this is just one dog we're talking about in in Atlanta the average annual cost per this stud
y to board is $536 to have someone come to your house is a whopping 827 the cost of raising a pet generally speaking is on the rise it's one of those costs that are just keep going up annually so if there's a way to cut back we'd like to help you find it I have three dogs I know three dogs you got three dogs that's a lot that's a lot of money I know it's okay and then if you look at shelters I mean they're full it's people are realizing that the cost of pet ownership is really high I know and an
d you're on social media I'm on social media you see it it's heartbreaking families are having to walk away from pets because of the cost sometimes again I said I have three dogs so when my daughter has some sort of out of town sports event my husband or not I somebody has to stay behind so one of us can be with the pets because it adds on an extra couple hundred bucks to a trip and who wants to do that don't have three dogs is that the moral of the story that's the moral of the story okay what
do you have we are such a sucker we have honey who we found on Boulevard starving people throwing rocks at her I tell you I just opened the door and said get in and she did oh my gosh and she's been the best thing ever we have these two dox who are I've never had little dogs or doxin that's different have you fallen in love we love them they're the worst pets I've ever had oh gosh you're going get some hate mail over there I mean they're the worst P but they're ours we're keeping them part of th
e family they're part of the family not all your kids can be your favorite that is so funny I love it we love them we love them yes of course but they're they're a handful I can only imagine all right Dana thank you so much
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