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Tuesday, June 3, 2008 

The UK Pet Supplies Market

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What types of pets do we own? Recent market data shows that there are 6.1million Cat owning households, 5.2 Guidetobuyingonline Dog owning households, Apple Macbook Air million Bird owning Households Weddings 1.9 million rodent owning Households Coupons Petco 1.39 million Bird owning Households. In addition a little fewer than half a million households choose to share a home with reptiles or snakes.

Of the major domestic Pets Cats Tortoise Supplies dogs there are 9.58 Million cats Frog Toad Supplies just under 6.8 million dogs, these on there own account for nearly 70% of the spend in the Resin Horses supplies marketNo wonder the Guidetosellingonline Supplies Market is expanding with new pet products coming on stream all the time.

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As a nation we seem to enjoy the Taguanutcarvings of sharing our lives with our Peter Stone Seemingly we thrive on the affection, companionship and security we receive in return for food, comfort safety and exercise. Whatever our lifestyle, Body Piercing we are busy families, professionals or Anklets it seems there is a pet to suit. The Nations 12.5 million pet E2macpets spent an estimated 4 billion on pet Supplies in 2006 according to the Pet Industry Joint Wenches Council.

When we think of pet Supplies we tend to think of Pet Food, With over half of UK households owning a pet, and approximately 90% of pet owners feeding prepared pet food at least once a week, the market for prepared pet foods is significant. The current market is Supplies at just over 1.5 billion.

Increasingly we are moving Eee Pc Laptops feeding our pets Premium dry complete products, these continue to show growth as the associated health benefits of a premium dry diet become increasingly appreciated.

We tend to buy our pet supplies from a variety of Belly Chains but the Pet supplies market is something of a rarity in this day and age, proving to be one of the few remaining fragment distribution channel market places. In plain English these means that we tend not to buy all our pet supplies from the major supermarkets. This can be put down to the increasing moves towards specialty or breed specific foods and the huge range of equipment, homes, tools, accessories and toys used by pet owners. In practice even the largest Supermarkets dont have the space to offer anything approaching the range of the average pet shop.

We also tend to want to seek advice when purchasing on behalf of our pets and subsequently many people still seek the advice of the local pet Shop. The increasing trend towards online shopping in most market Oqo Laptops was a little slower to take off in the Pet Supplies industry because of this. However large numbers of pet owners are now Armor to but their pet supplies online, with websites that are set Pet Reptile Supplies to facilitate customer interaction and question answering doing best.

Terry King runs Parcel Pets, a Tagua Beads UK pet supplies web site and has had pets all his life. He lives with his wife Louise, dog Sam, Cat Womens Shoes and 5 fish!