And they get more expensive with age! Senior dogs are absolute gifts, so loving and wonderful, but the vet bills and daily care needs pile up FAST. Food alone for my senior girl in the last several years of her life was over $150 a month easily, because it was a prescription diet - and that was the least expensive regular bill of hers by the end. I can’t stand people who want free pets, they’re the same people who dump the pets as soon as they’re not cute little babies any more.