Oddly Measured

How much has my pet cost per cuddle?

Add up everything your pet has cost, divide by every cuddle you have had, and see what one cuddle is actually worth.

Real maths • Your answers stay on your device

What you'll need

  • Roughly how long you have had your pet
  • What you spent up front
  • What you spend in a normal month
  • How many cuddles happen on a normal day

Used only to display your numbers. Nothing is converted between currencies.

Part-years are fine — 2.5 works.

Adoption or purchase price, desexing, bedding, crate, the first shopping trip.

How do you want to enter ongoing costs?

Food, litter, treats, insurance, the occasional vet visit — averaged out.

A cuddle is whatever you count as one. You are the authority here.

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Answer the questions and press Show me my weird number. Everything is worked out on your own device.

How we work this out

We total your up-front spend and your ongoing spend across the whole time you have had your pet, then divide that total by an estimate of how many cuddles have happened in the same period. Everything is arithmetic on numbers you supply — there are no population averages hiding in here.

Step by step

  1. Work out how many days you have had your pet: years × 365.2425 days.
  2. Work out ongoing spend: your monthly figure × 12 × the number of years.
  3. Add your up-front spend to get total spend.
  4. Work out cuddles: your cuddles-per-day figure × the number of days.
  5. Divide total spend by total cuddles.

What this does not claim

  • Cuddles-per-day is your own estimate applied evenly across the whole period. Real life has quiet months and clingy months.
  • Ongoing costs are treated as a flat monthly average. Vet bills are famously not flat.
  • If you use the detailed breakdown, the single monthly figure is ignored entirely, so nothing is counted twice.
  • This is a way of looking at a number, not an argument about whether a pet is worth it.

Sources

This calculator uses no external reference values. Every number comes from your own answers, plus standard calendar and unit arithmetic — a mean year of 365.2425 days, and twelve months in a year.