Sentences with phrase «dog and cat owners simply»

When it comes down to it, dog and cat owners simply want to provide their pets with the best nutrition and care they can afford.

Not exact matches

More than 30 percent of Americans live with at least one cat, and they re probably getting the same stress relief and happy - hormone release from their pet of choice that dog - owners get; there are simply fewer studies to prove it, says judge Alan Beck, ScD, director of the Center for Human - Animal Bond at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine.

Let's not forget that on top of food costs, cat owners also have the added burden of buying cat litter, and with natural cat food being 55 percent more expensive per pound than natural dog SKUs ($ 3.45 overall for cats, versus $ 2.30 for dogs), it may simply be harder for cat owners to commit to natural cat foods.

Fifty - six percent of dogs and seventy - six percent of cats in shelters are euthanized... many of them healthy, well - behaved animals whose owners simply didn't have time for them anymore.

One prime example is when a dog and cat household has a flea problem on the cat and the owner simply applies the dog productivity at thinking that it will do the same thing or not have any side effects.

According to the HSUS, 2.7 MILLION adoptable cats and dogs are euthanized every year in the US because there are simply too many homeless pets for available owners.

Unlike up to 5 million pets in the United States that humans adopt, a minimum of 31 % of dogs and 41 % of cats are killed simply because they do not have an owner.

There is simply no better feeling than nursing a puppy (or litter of puppies) whose momma was hit by a car right before giving birth and seeing those puppies placed in loving, permanent homes; or watching an emaciated and scared pound dog blossom in front of your eyes and learn to trust; or taking in a cat who was dumped at the pound because her owner passed away and no one in the family cared enough to take her into their home.

Sadly, kitten and puppy mill «purebred» cats and dogs are overbred and are raised under horrific conditions, which results in stock with major medical and behavioral problems for which their new owners are not equipped to handle (or simply unwilling to deal with them).

The increase in veterinary jobs are not simply due to more pet owners as the number of dog owners stands somewhere between 70 and 80 million while cat owners boast even greater statistics.

While dog owners have been shopping for raw foods, premium proteins and meals that contain no artificial ingredients, many cat owners simply relied on foods that their finicky cats have always liked.

«Quite simply, owners do not see cats» teeth as readily as dogs», and halitosis in dogs is more apparent because they tend to open their mouths more and are generally larger animals,» says Dinneen.