Pet owners shell out plenty to pamper, protect, and provide
for their domesticated animal companions. Last year, it seems pet lovers spent
$74 billion in the U.S. on pet products and services. That number is projected
to increase to approximately $91 billion by 2019, according to a recent edition
of Packaged
Facts Reports.
It sounds like it’s raining cats and dogs for pet product
and service marketers. An estimated
56 percent of all American households own at least one pet, and these
animal lovers seem to be more than willing to spend generously on their behalf.
Pet purchases include goods and services for boarding, clothing, comforting, entertaining, exercising,
feeding, grooming, housebreaking, pet sitting, training, transporting, treating, and more.
Hot dog! That’s a lot
of kibbles.
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