Petco has a coupon for one free bag of Purina Pro dry dog (up to 6 pounds) or cat food (up to 3.5 pounds) together on the same page with a coupon for $10 off Pro Pan dry dog or cat food. Limit one per household – – but the other big box pet stores take competitor’s coupons!  Which means at least three free bags but wait!  Since these are store coupons, you can use the $3/1 Purina Pro dry cat food coupon in the 12/08 rp stacked with the $10 store coupon and pay only a buck or two for a 3.5 pound bag of dry cat food (dog food was $14.99 at Petco and $13.99 at PetSmart – I assume cat food prices are similar).  There is also a $2 coupon for Purina Pro dog snacks in the 11/17 S – PetSmart had these on clearance for $3 something.  And if you’re running low on funds, you can mix small amounts of dry cat food with the dog food.  Mind you, it’s not a good idea to give ’em all cat food, but some firms up their stools slightly.  and now a perfect segue into…

Hope you got lots of firecracker chicken tonight – we did!  And no, we do not drive around from one Panda Express location to another wasting time and gas!  Instead you determine where you’re going and what else you need/want to hit up along a circular route.  In our case, we gabbed at Rachel’s and grabbed more stuff at a Walgreens outside my usual comfort zone, picked up dog food and shopped at Yorktown!  The Cinnabon store in the food court was closing for the night and offered us bags of cinnamon twisty-things and containers of dipping stuff for a buck a bag.  Never tried them, but they sure are tasty little suckers!