![Myanmar’s pet food market has been beset by instability and violence as the country continues in a state of civil war.](https://img.petfoodindustry.com/files/base/wattglobalmedia/all/image/2024/04/myanmar_map.661d8ced1f314.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
Myanmar’s pet food market has been beset by instability and violence as the country continues in a state of civil war.
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Located in the western portion of mainland Southeast Asia, Myanmar, which many continue to call by its old name Burma, continues to be ruled by a military junta that seized power from a civilian government on February 1, 2021, an action that resulted in a civil war. As defiant civilians and ethnic-minority armies fight the military regime of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, pets, strays and wildlife become the voiceless victims suffering on the sidelines from lack of food and refuge.