Your cat’s care plan
Everything the separate tools work out, brought together for one particular cat: what it will cost, how much to feed it, what it needs and what its breed and your home will mean for you. Plus a PDF to keep or to show whoever needs to see it. Costs are guide prices in Spain.
The cost calculator in detail → The food calculator → Which insurance does it need? (Spanish) →
Why it helps to have it all together
Because decisions about a cat are not made piece by piece. Knowing what litter costs a month says nothing unless you put it next to food, the vet, insurance and what that breed will ask of you. This plan brings together what the other tools work out separately, for one particular cat: yours, or the one you are thinking of adopting. It is the difference between five loose figures and a clear idea of what you are taking on for fifteen years.
What it includes
The budget for the rest of its life broken down by item, its daily food adjusted to its age and weight, the vaccination and worming calendar if it is a kitten, its life stage and what each stage calls for, and the warnings that affect you because of its breed and your home: the balcony, whether it will go outside, how many hours it will spend alone, whether there are children, the grooming it needs or the known health problems of its breed.
The PDF, and what it is for
You can download it and keep it, but above all it is for showing to someone. To the family when you have to decide together, because a figure in writing settles arguments that never end when spoken. To the vet at the first visit. And to the shelter or breeder, so you ask the right questions about health, vaccinations and neutering. It is made in your browser: it is not sent anywhere.
If you do not like the result
That is exactly the moment this tool has done its job. It is much better to find out now that the breed you like needs daily brushing you will not be able to give it, or that your balcony needs nets before anything else, than to find out with the cat at home. Change the details, try another breed or an adult cat from a shelter, whose character is already known, and compare.
An educational tool from Michipedia. It gives estimates, not a diagnosis: for anything to do with your cat’s health, ask your vet.