How much $ would Clifford the Big Red Dog cost?

[jenbrdsly]

My guess is half a million dollars a year. (Clifford is a lot of dog to love and care for.) I'm estimating that Clifford is the size of three elephants. But maybe I'm wrong. What do you think?

[Seasider]

Haha! I don't know how much, but I used to always tell my littles that we could never afford to feed Clifford!

 

Oh, and don't forget the insurance premiums. You'd have to have a mega liability policy in today's litigious climate.

[forty-two]

I've thought about it, too. In one book they show a dump truck filling his bowl. Thanks to this thread, I looked up some estimates. 50 cups of dog food in a 20lb bag, 120 cups per cubic foot, and 722 cubic feet capacity in a normal-ish dump truck. Rounding, that's 40lbs of dog food per cubic foot, so 722 40 lb bags of dog food for one day's meal! At $30/bag, that's roughly $21,000/day, which is about $7,200,000/yr for food alone! (Assuming my hasty mental estimating and calculating wasn't too off.)

 

And that's not even counting all the stuff he breaks that they have to pay for. I think they need to buy food in bulk ;).

[plain jane]

Nevermind how much he would cost.... how would one clean up after him? Ack!! :eek: :ack2:

[Cinder]

We have loved Clifford here and have also wondered some of the same things, like how they could afford to feed him. I assumed Emily Elizabeth's parents must be independently wealthy. Who else could afford to open a gift shop on a small island?

[poppy]

I have a book from my own childhood which explains that Clifford's food is taken care of by the police, who pay him in dog food to be a police dog. In the book Clifford catches robbers who are shooting guns (!)

 

But of course, since then he's moved to Birdwell Island, which I don't know if it has its own police force.