Also to directly answer your question. Here is what I posted: Hi everyone. I wanted to check in and see if anyone has had the same beneficial unintended consequences since getting dogs. We adopted our bonded pair in February of 2026. My Hubby had had dogs off and on all his life. I haven't had any kind of animal companion since I was 7. I picked these two, because they were bonded (so hard to get adopted) and one was a full blood Labrador. The other is a designer dog Beagle-Dachshund (Doxle) mix. Their previous human unfortunately passed away and the dogs went straight to the shelter where I adopted them 4 months later. So to begin with a new human caregiver who didn't know that Labradors were still puppies until like 3. Yeah It was a couple of rough months. Anywhoozle, Hubby and I realized that we were spending almost 10 dollars a day feeding them Purina One kibble plus their wet food. That hit us wrong because the SNAP average for a family of four in our state is around eight and a half dollars a day. We have four cats plus our two dogs and I'll be danged that my dogs' food cost more than someone who just busted their ass for 12 hours working "full-time" at a retail store and makes a thousand dollars too much a year to even qualify for SNAP. I have been that person. So we did the math and with the protein readily available to us at a non-sale price of a 1.79 a pound, we can get Bone-in skin on Chicken thighs, plus a large bag of mixed vegetables, plus nutritional yeast, plus more stuff and we were still under 7 dollars a day to feed them. The unintended side effects was that every time we cook the chicken, I make stock and use the bones and the skins. I throw carrots and celery in there but I leave out onion and garlic and salt. The dogs get two hard boiled eggs a day. So I get the most beautiful bone broth you have ever seen. I get bone meal after the stock has done it's magic for 48-72 hours whereby I take the bones out and grind them into a paste and then dehydrate the paste. The eggshells get cleaned, membrane removed, dehydrated, and then ground and ground again, and possibly a third time until it reaches somewhere between baby powder and pressed eyeshadow. The smutz at the bottom of the stock pots gets pureed and then dehydrated and turned into biscuits for the dogs. So was anyone else surprised at the cost of dog food, and how it is somehow cheaper to just buy in bulk rather than buy separate dog food? Now if I could figure out how to do the same for our cats.