Posted on 03/05/2015 4:56:35 PM PST by Olog-hai
We feed them, groom them, clothe them and otherwise shell out the big bucks to protect and pamper our pets.
The American Pet Products Association’s annual report on pet industry spending says Americans spent $58 billion in 2014 on their 397 million pets, which range from freshwater fish and reptiles to cats and dogs. …
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Our government and culture is to blame why our country population is declining into depopulation and not procreating, just look at the statistics from the early 20th century to the 40s,50s, and the liberal upheaval of the 1960s, is it any wonder why no one wants to raise families anymore ?
Especially white males, who are shut out of a collage education, the courts in divorce laws are certainly not in their favor, and jobs for white males are diminishing.
The old saying should be : The more I am around liberals, the more I love my dog.
So you make your fish swim around NEKKID?!! You are a bad, bad person! :)
Every time I see a shockingly really big private sector number of dollars, I think that number of dollars is a rounding error in the public sector.
My bulldog enjoys a lower back massage with a 2 speed Wahl vibrator with heat.
He works hard patrolling the yard and guarding the house.
But no bubble baths.
“...20 pound bag of squirrel food to put in my bird feeders.”
LOL
Same here, but we’re on our fifth 50 lb. bag of sunflower seeds. Also, we get between 25-30 suet bars for the woodpeckers, nuthatches & chickadees.
It’s been a tough winter up here for our little friends.
My dog gets pampered because he appreciates it, and is grateful.
Unlike the welfare folks I subsidize.
RE: 3
Same here....
Labs=”Good doggie!” I had a chocolate.
He was physically similar to my bulldog: roach back, deep chest/narrow waist, sturdy legs, strong withers. Good boy!
Is pampering to feed your pet? Maybe we need Michelle to let us know. Their dog gets its own plane.
I’ll spend whatever I feel like on my critters.
Whomever doesn’t like it can just get over it.
:)
Funniest pics EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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About the hat, cowboy hat or maybe even a Fedora, but not the "Old Lady" hat with a rose on top :)
Adorable!!
;) A wet Lab that smells like the swamp................not so adorable. Heh.
Bizarrely, "snakes in hats" is now a "thing".
Google it. :D
In her defense, the time it takes to fasten all those tiny buttons is quite hazardous to a fish’s health. :)
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