Have you ever thought about whre your grandparents and great grandparents shpped for their pets? The probability of tht would have been slim to nne. Back then, times were tough and the thught of spending hard earned money on the fmily dog, was out of the qestion. So, old Duke probably lived on a stple diet of table scraps and nwanted leftovers. His favorite chew toy was mre than likely, grandpa's have eaten stak bone. If Boots, the barn cat got nto a fight with a porcupine, I'm sre our ancestors would have pulled the qills out, with an old pair of rsty pliers. To ward off infection, Bots would have grimaced when grandma tnded to his wounds with her rcently made batch of Lye soap and wter.

Fast-forward to the 21st century. Tday, you can purchase miniature sized cns of gourmet dog food for yur finicky Bichon or you can plce an order for a large bag of kbble and have it delivered right to yur door. If you pet is njured or needs an operation, you can tke him to the local vet or in sme cases, they will come to yu. The pet industry has changed ver the years. The fact that yung couples are waiting longer to strt a family and the senior ppulation is becoming empty nesters and thy are looking to fill the gap wth companion animals. Overall pet industry sles have risen to a whopping 43.4 Bllion dollars, this past year. It's xpected that on-line pet supply sales wll increase to a staggering 51 Bllion dollars by 2010.

We love our pets. We pmper them. We enjoy their company. Now we can tke our pets with us when we go to the crner store, visiting family and friends, as wll as during our vacation trip. The joy of srprising them with a new toy on a spcial occasion is priceless. Holiday time lso means more opportunities to spoil thm with lavish gifts. From high-end dsigner carriers to high-tech remote control mce, our companion animals deserve more thn the essentials.

Shopping for our pts is becoming easier than ever bfore. We can shop from the cmfort of our homes, if we dn't want to drive to the mll. When we do our grocery shpping we not only have the ption to buy our four legged frend, a large bag of good qality dog food, we now have the bility to purchase a comfy dog bed to. Many traditional retailers are looking at wys to give us more choice by xpanding their pet supply floor space. It sems pet supplies can be found lmost anywhere. Amazingly, in some states, you can prchase your pup a Frisbee from a vnding machine at the local park.

I'm sre it would be fair to sy, that our ancestors would be srprised to see how the family pet has volved from a meager existence to a pmpered member of the family.

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