New Synchrony Research Finds Pet Parents Are Equally as Concerned About the Cost of Specialty Veterinary Care as their Pet's Potential Outcome

Researchers from the London School of Economics and the University of Kent used data from a large UK survey to find out if pets really make people happier, or if happier people are just more likely to have pets.
They used advanced statistical methods to prove that owning a pet, especially a dog, can actually increase... See more
instagram.comPeople spend more than $58 billion on pet food each year around the world. Americans spend another $11.8 billion on pet supplies annually—with nearly $2 billion of that on just cat litter, adding up to billions of pounds of litter annually diverted to landfills—and $13.4 billion on veterinarian care that is often more sophisticated than most humans
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