conducted to determine the percentage of pets of the US households at the time owned a pet, compared to the 63 percent of present day households that own a pet, with 45 percent owning more than one pet. (The Pet Set is Roaring Rich and Purring Profits. (2007). Souvenirs, Gifts, & Novelties, 46(5), 108-134). Pets can be a big part of a family’s life. Depending on breed and size basic needs can be very different. Choosing the right breed and type of pet can be time consuming and difficult. This
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Paper When Pets Become Predators What is an owner to do with a pet that has become too aggressive to handle, too expensive to feed or too large to house? This is a question many uneducated exotic pet owner’s face soon after purchasing a juvenile exotic reptile. Unfortunately, for many pet owner’s, the answer is to release the pet into our neighborhoods and parks creating a multitude of problems for homeowner’s, State officials and the environment. Probably the best known pet to become a
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examples. Some changes in values and lifestyles will be important to the industry, but not to your business. For example, the current trend is to adopt pets from a shelter, rather than from a pet store; this has an impact on the pet store industry. However, if a pet store is located in a town that does not have a shelter or the store does not sell pets (just supplies – like PetSmart), then the change does not affect the business. When discussing demographics do NOT discuss
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com/2010/01/pet-industry-trends-for-2010.html Pet Industry Trends for 2010 2010 Trends | January 14, 2010 | By Laura Bennett | Surprise, surprise – the impact of the recession on consumer spending and attitudes will continue to dominate economics for pet-related small businesses in 2010. It has long been thought that pet-related spending is recession proof and 2009 certainly tested that theory. As a result, I think we can certainly say the pet category is at least recession resistant, with pet-related
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Dog Day Care “Paw Play” Assignment Number 4 – Business Proposal Strayer University BUS 508 August 24, 2010 Business Description Paw Play is an animal day care for dogs only that caters to working professionals who have disposable income and who want quality care for their dogs while they are at work. The purpose of the business is to provide animals owners a safe place to leave their animals while they are at work so they do not have to be alone all day.
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Society has often viewed pets, whether it is a dog or a cat, as part of the family and they often get treated like a member of the family. Unfortunately, not all pets arrive at a family’s house under the same circumstances. Many families decide that they want to purchase their pet via a breeder because they feel like they want a purebred dog, as opposed to the dogs that are sitting in shelters for months to even years at a time. Society needs to adjust, as purebred animals will still have a high
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Pet Party in the Park Help us finish the dog park! Bring your pets, your family and your friends to the Hammonds County Sports Park on Saturday, October 22 from 20 AM until 3 PM. Admission is free but all donations benefit the Hammonds County Dog Park. Here are just a few of the things planned for the day: * Join in the 2K Pet Walk. Gather pledges and register as a team to raise money for the park. Details available on the RescuePets website or call (727) 555-1223 * Check out the latest
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Younger children cannot take care of animals as easy as adults can. They can still have a loveable animal that they can enjoy. Among your basic household pet, the one that doesn’t require extensive or daily care and can be a loveable friend is best to be considered as a house pet for young children. In my opinion I feel that would be a smaller dog like the Samoyed Staffordshire. Not only are they good in size, but they are also more fun and affectionate than most cats, fish, and birds. Medium and
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are killed each year in our animal shelters across the US. Many people have found it necessary to surrender their pets when faced with economic stressors such as unemployment, and home foreclosures. Many apartments will not allow pets, or place restrictions on the breed, or the size of the dog. Owners are therefore forced to make a decision between their financial situation, and pet owner responsibility and commitment. Hirshey, G. (2008, May 11). Adopting a dog from a shelter can save a life. Not
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ENGL 0960 February 28th, 2014 Essay 1 Pets are important to people for several reasons. The first reason that I can think of is that they are very therapeutic to people with many different disabilities. Some examples are being blind, depression, in a wheelchair, and deaf these are just some of the big disabilities that I can think of. I have always thought that having a pet makes people happy whether you have a disability or not. Most people own pets because they want to or their kids want to
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