Hi everybody! It's been a while since I've posted an entry (in fact this is my first for 2022) but I have been reading everybody's entries, life has just been a little busy lately. A pleasant kind of busy though, because in the middle of last month we got a new puppy!
I had been doing a 52 week challenge to save for new pets (which I wasn't completely regular with), we saved about $200 intermittently. We were originally intending to wait a few years for a couple of new pets but I guess we just missed having the company of pets in our home and started to fall in love with the idea again.
We got given some cash from our FIL which is how we funded the purchase of the puppy. He is a Jack Russell Terrier (like our beautiful dog who passed) and is so adorable! As we haven't had puppies for around 19 years now it has taken a little while to remember what life with a puppy is like! It's so full on - nothing is off limits! He is probably 75% well behaved 25% not.
Life has certainly become more fun though, and he is very much a member of our family! It's so much fun going through all of the first milestones and watching him learn and grow. He is such a confident sweet little puppy!
One thing I have done with the pets this time around is called one of our bank accounts "Holidays & Pets", set up a weekly deposit of $20 to be deposited there and have created his own spreadsheet. We could have opted for pet insurance but I think we have so many insurances as it is that it is simply another thing to deal with, another person to contact etc and decided that I would simply rather we set up a sinking fund as such instead. For the first year that account will mostly be to pay vet bills and we are paying for any other purchases from our monthly spending money (there is always a big outlay when you first get a new pet setting things up and getting them bits and pieces). He will getting desexed/neutered at 6 months old and the vet has quoted $350 for the procedure so there should be enough in the bank account for that when it happens.
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Mumof2 our FIL takes his dog to a vet like that where you pay $40 per month and get a certain amount of unlimited options then reduced payment charges for the other things but I didn’t want to go to someone completely different when the people we have dealt with are great. The $20 per week we save is an automatic debit payment so hopefully it will build up over time and be a big buffer for those expensive older years.
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