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Pet Spending Hits Record Levels
It’s hard to say enough good things about indulgent pet owners who are willing to whip out their credit cards for beauty and spa products, designer apparel and a whole slew of other upscale items that pamper pets. After all, they will help boost pet industry sales 5.6 percent this year to a record $43.4 billion, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (Greenwich, Conn.)...  Hartz Mountain Recalls Cat Vitamins
The Hartz Mountain Corp. (Secaucus, N.J.) in March voluntarily recalled specific lots of cat vitamins made for the company by UFAC (USA) Inc. (Baconton, Ga.) due to concerns of potential Salmonella contamination in some bottles... New Jersey May Restrict Dog and Cat Sales
A wide-ranging bill that broadly defines "breeder" would prohibit certain breeding practices, set limits on the number of dogs and cats sold per year, impose care and facility standards, and spell out the information to be disclosed at time of sale... New York Legislation Focuses on 'Puppy Mills'
Legislation introduced last year in the New York Assembly and Senate to prohibit the sale of dogs born on "puppy farms" has been amended to substitute the term "puppy mills."... Vermont Bills Impose Dog Breeder Limits
Separate pieces of legislation recently introduced in Vermont seek to place new restrictions on dog breeders.
House Bill 769 would deny a kennel permit to anyone who sells 20 or more litters or 100 or more domestic dogs or wolf-hybrids in any 12-month period. Kennel permits would be required for any person who owns or keeps two or more domestic pets or wolf-hybrids 4 months of age or older for sale or for breeding purposes. The bill resides in the House Committee on Government Operations where it awaited its first public hearing at press time....
PIJAC Launches Amphibian Health Campaign
A new educational campaign by the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (Washington) is teaching keepers of captive amphibians how to prevent the spread of an infectious disease that could decimate amphibian populations around the world... Market for Pet Health Products Is Growing
Americans’ growing interest in managing and preventing health problems in their pets will drive them to spend $28.9 billion on pet health products and services by 2011—a yearly increase of 7.1 percent—according to The Freedonia Group Inc., a Cleveland-based market research firm... Association Honors Top Dog Writers
Dog Spelled Backwards by Mordecai Siegal (St. Martins Press, New York) won the Pro Plan President’s Award for best publication of the year and was named best anthology in the annual writing competition held by the Dog Writers Association of America (Coatesville, Pa.)...
Luxury Pet Pavilion Debuts in Los Angeles
More than 1,700 people attended Luxury Pet Pavilion’s first stand-alone market, held Feb. 23-24 in Los Angeles. The traveling forum, designed to showcase luxury pet manufacturers and purveyors of fine pet goods, included displays by 84 companies... Cool Products Debut at Global Pet Expo
Doggie treadmills, pet toilets, bottled water for pets and weight-loss toys were among hundreds of new products unveiled at Global Pet Expo 2008... Consumer Confidence Wanes
Driven by declining faith in current conditions and growing worries about job security and investing, consumer confidence in the economy fell to 48.5 on the February RBC Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household Index—the lowest it has been since the index was created six years ago...
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