Spoiling our child substitutes rotten!
Newsweek has a big feature article out about how childfree pet owners are pampering their pets--not always a good thing. Check it out:
Amusingly, "buy videos for cats" is on my current to do list.
It used to be that most pets were bought by families. Now, the majority of pet owners, 61 percent, are childless—singles, unmarried couples waiting to have kids, gay couples, empty-nesters. Invariably, these owners tend to treat their pets like surrogate babies, and they spoil them accordingly. To help these childless pet-parents spend their disposable income, the pet products industry has mushroomed in the past decade. This year we’ll shell out more than $40 billion to keep our furry friends fed, adorned, amused and healthy—the latter a huge growth category, with more and more owners paying top dollar for elaborate medical treatments to forestall that inevitable last visit to the vet. By the end of the decade, we’ll be spending $50 billion on pet products, according to the APPMA.[LINK]
Amusingly, "buy videos for cats" is on my current to do list.
2 Comments:
very interesting: and funny. i have had cats all of my life till now: now I have budgies and i spend time thinking aobut, what seeds or greens or fruit can i prepare for them? i enjoy seeing them happy very much. i don't see myself buying them videos though. i do see myself spending thousands on an aviary for three $15 budgies.
you might like my blog today about not having children: you might not.
I only noticed that this article doent mention the childfree which annoyed me. Gay couples, the childless and the yet to have all get listed, but not the married childfree! Gosh!
Ive got 4 cats and spoil them rotten, yes, but theyre not a replacement for kids.I have an affinity with animals and dont like babies - simple as that!
Lise
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