11-21-2007, 05:59 AM
Average cost of a dog? $331.
Number of households in america with at least one dog? 44.8 million.
Number of pet dogs in the US 74.8 million
What americians spend on pets in 2006 $38.5 Billion
What they'll pony up for vet care $9.8 billion
How much the pet industry could ring up by 2010 at the current rate of growth $50 billion.
Cost of MRI pet scan $2000 to $2700.
Cost of Radiation $6,000
Percent of owners who would buy a memorial for their yard or garden 23%
Minum cost for a taxidermist to freezedry your dog $1000.. cloning?
Number of states where judges adminstered financial trusts set up in a pet's name 25 (in Hawaii they can be benificiaries)
percentage of pet owners who said there pets sleep with them in bed 56%...yuk!
Minimum lifetime cost of a medium size dog, including food, shelter, supplies and basic vet care. $4500-5000
Number of sates in which cruelty to animals is a felony 42 ( I think Hawaii it's not)
So I guess with what I spend on my kids I could have bought a new car?
KEEP PUNA RURAL
Number of households in america with at least one dog? 44.8 million.
Number of pet dogs in the US 74.8 million
What americians spend on pets in 2006 $38.5 Billion
What they'll pony up for vet care $9.8 billion
How much the pet industry could ring up by 2010 at the current rate of growth $50 billion.
Cost of MRI pet scan $2000 to $2700.
Cost of Radiation $6,000
Percent of owners who would buy a memorial for their yard or garden 23%
Minum cost for a taxidermist to freezedry your dog $1000.. cloning?
Number of states where judges adminstered financial trusts set up in a pet's name 25 (in Hawaii they can be benificiaries)
percentage of pet owners who said there pets sleep with them in bed 56%...yuk!
Minimum lifetime cost of a medium size dog, including food, shelter, supplies and basic vet care. $4500-5000
Number of sates in which cruelty to animals is a felony 42 ( I think Hawaii it's not)
So I guess with what I spend on my kids I could have bought a new car?
KEEP PUNA RURAL