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Korean startup teaches kids about pet food, pet ownership

Be My Pet Co. aims to reduce pet abandonment in South Korea with a YouTube channel and other resources geared towards children and new pet owners.

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Brand Insights

Solving Separation and Segregation Issues in Pet Food Blends

Horizon Systems

Industry trends of using finer ingredients like starches, fillers and flow agents — also regrind and recycle materials — in greater percentages can result in ingredient separation and segregation, affecting your final product.

Solving Separation and Segregation Issues in Pet Food Blends

Coronavirus and Pets

Are pet adoptions truly rising? Pet food outlook for 2021

An increase in foster pets may mask an actual drop in pet adoptions, so it’s not certain they will boost overall pet ownership and pet food sales.

New shelter data casts doubt on whether the pet population and pet ownership are truly growing. | (Halfpoint | Shutterstock.com)

Pet adoptions down in pandemic, masked by fosters

Despite feel-good stories about new pandemic pets and empty shelters, pet adoptions may be declining during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

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Market Trends and Reports

14 blogs on AAFCO, apples in pet food, DCM in Oct. 2020

In October 2020, Petfood Industry’s editors and columnists wrote 14 blogs or feature articles, which covered AAFCO, apples, ownership trends and dilated cardiomyopathy.

AAFCO doesn’t provide definitions for “common foods,” but the term itself now has a formal definition. | (Jacob Sjoman | iStock.com)

Pet Food Market

Update: State of pet ownership and pet food spending

The current picture of pet ownership and pet food spending in the U.S. seems mostly sunny, partly cloudy with a chance of storms on the horizon.

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Pet Food Market

Why pet food brands should embrace cats and their owners

Having led the way in regarding their pets as full-fledged family members, cat owners are now more likely to spend generously on cat food and other products.

Cat ownership is rising, along with spending on premium cat food and other products. | (Carsten Reisinger I Shutterstock.com)

Smaller, older dogs alter UK pet food market

Advances in nutrition, care and medicine helped dog and cat lifespan double during the past four decades in the United Kingdom, where dogs now live an average 12 years, while cats’ nine lives last them 15 years.

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Pet Food Market

‘Other’ pets: A small but important segment to watch

Pet ownership beyond cats and dogs may make up a small part of the industry’s focus, but trends in the small pet space mirror what’s happening in other segments.

In our annual small pets issue, we take a look at the non-dog-and-cat segments of the pet space and how their trends play into the broader picture. | (SensorSpot | iStock.com)

Pet Food Market

UK pet care market grew 2.5% between 2011 and 2019

Between 2011 and 2019, pet care sales’ 2.5% cumulative growth outperformed the wider fast-moving consumer goods category, which increased 1.9% over the same time.

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Singapore SPCA initiates pet food support program

The Singapore SPCA's pet food support program could run through February 2021 if need continues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pet Food Market

Rx: More pets plus policies, resources to support owners

Pet ownership could be the prescription for what ails humans, especially in these times, but policies and resources are needed to support and boost ownership.

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Pet Food Market

Parrot pet and patio poultry ownership rise in pandemic

While many people resorted to talking to their new pets during weeks of isolation, only some of them could talk back.

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