Table 4. Daily cost of homemade and commercial dry and wet diets for maintenance dogs.
Body weight (kg) | Homemade diets | Commercial dry diets | Commercial wet diets (n = 5) | |||
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Chicken (n = 1) | Beef (n = 1) | Super premium (n = 5) | Premium (n = 5) | Standard (n = 5) | ||
US$/day | US$/day | US$/day | US$/day | US$/day | US$/day | |
3.00 | 0.56 | 0.81 | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 1.92 |
15.00 | 1.88 | 2.70 | 0.55 | 0.31 | 0.38 | 6.39 |
30.00 | 3.16 | 4.54 | 0.96 | 0.51 | 0.64 | 10.75 |
50.00 | 4.64 | 6.66 | 1.42 | 0.74 | 0.94 | 15.77 |