Saturday, March 9, 2019

Chinchilla Supply List

As you may have read in our recent guest blog post by our wonderful volunteer Chris, one of the things she did for us was to check out prices at pet stores, so we could update our Chinchilla Supply List.

In case you're unfamiliar with this, we have a supply list on our website, here -- which compares the prices of items that you can purchase here at NWI, or at the pet stores.  The last time we gathered data for this supply list was back in 2013, when I went to Petsmart and gathered prices for comparable items to items that we sell.  As it's been 5ish years... time to do it again! 

In talking with Chris about this, she graciously volunteered to go check prices for us, and sent me an email a few days later with lots of good info.  I compiled it, created a new chart with all of the current prices / info, added it all up for totals and whatnot, and it is now what you see on the website.

As you can see in the list, we carry everything the pet stores do (and often, even more), at similar or even lower prices! Some things we have are priced similarly... our food bowls are $4.00, and Chris found similarly sized food bowls priced at $3.99 and $2.99-$3.99 at the pet stores.  To be perfectly honest, buying ceramic food bowls in bulk is not something that there's a lot of options for, so I'm happy with just being competitive in the pricing.  For other things, you can see where there's significant pricing differences.  The one that stands out, even after closing the page, is hay cubes.  At the pet store, they are over $8 per pound!  Insanity!  We charge $1.25 per pound.  Now, not everyone uses hay cubes, but even hay from us is $1 per pound, versus $4+ per pound at the pet store.  And all you lack, in getting it from us, is the pretty chinchilla on the packaging.  But come on, we know that's not that important to you, right?  We all just throw away or recycle the packaging anyway! 

Anyway, so that list is very currently up to date, in case you were ever wanting to compare prices, there ya go :)

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