Pet Industry Market Research Reports

A pet store or pet shop is a retail business which sells different kinds of animals. Pet stores also sell pet food, supplies, and accessories.
In the USA, Pet shops often offer both hygienic care, cleaning and stetic services, like Cat and Dog grooming, as a process by which a dog or cats's physical appearance is enhanced and kept according to breed standards for competitive breed showing, for other types of competition, like Creative grooming or Pet tuning contests, or just to their owners amusement.
Less common in pet stores are larger mammals such as dogs and cats. In the UK and a large number of other European countries, dogs and cats are not sold at pet stores. Exotic pets such as Sugar Gliders, large snakes, hedgehogs, Brazilian short-tailed opossums, and large parrots are available at some pet shops. Because the care of these types of animals is difficult and expensive, these are most often carried only in stores that specialize in exotic animals. Cat and dog food sales exceed...
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A pet store or pet shop is a retail business which sells different kinds of animals. Pet stores also sell pet food, supplies, and accessories.
In the USA, Pet shops often offer both hygienic care, cleaning and stetic services, like Cat and Dog grooming, as a process by which a dog or cats's physical appearance is enhanced and kept according to breed standards for competitive breed showing, for other types of competition, like Creative grooming or Pet tuning contests, or just to their owners amusement.
Less common in pet stores are larger mammals such as dogs and cats. In the UK and a large number of other European countries, dogs and cats are not sold at pet stores. Exotic pets such as Sugar Gliders, large snakes, hedgehogs, Brazilian short-tailed opossums, and large parrots are available at some pet shops. Because the care of these types of animals is difficult and expensive, these are most often carried only in stores that specialize in exotic animals. Cat and dog food sales exceeded Pound 1.4 billion in the United Kingdom[3] and US$14.3 billion in the United States in 2005. In 2006, the value of the UK pet food market rose to just over Pound 1.6 billion.The leading exporters of pet food for 2004 were France ($993 million), United States ($786 million) and the Netherlands ($511 million), while the leading importers were Japan ($718 million), Germany ($617 million) and the UK ($563 million).
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