January 1, 2010Comments are closed.adoptions, attitude
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, pets are now twice as common as children in Australian households, with 63% of homes having a pet.
More than ever before people are treating their pets as their children, lobbying for their right to take them to the beach, to cafes, to the movies and no longer content to just ‘drop them at kennels’, are demanding hotel style accommodation for their furry family members.
We love them so much that households now spend more on them than on child care. That’s $700 for every man, woman and child every year – 50% more than five years ago. There is a $4.2 billion dollar pet industry in Australia that is growing, even during our tough economic times.
Why then do we have so much trouble trusting that our public are capable of caring for their pets? Are we still pushing old wisdom, against what is undeniably a new swing toward compassion?
