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Pets are big business. Americans will spend $5.4 billion this year to acquire and care for what some pet sellers like to call "the only love money can buy." And the watchword in that vast marketplace should be "let the buyer -- and animal -- beware." "Buy a purebred dog or cat today for, say, $200," writes the author, "and you're likely to spend another $4,000 on it in the next twelve years. ... And the chances are growing every day that you'll wind up with a dog that has a crippling genetic disease, a sour disposition, and fake papers, or a cat less healthy than its barnyard relative." At one time or another consumers and animals alike will be victimized by The Pet Profiteers, avaricious entrepreneurs in the highly profitable pet-related industries: the puppy mills, haphazard breeders that produce huge numbers of animals at random and then ship them out like so many crates of lettuce with hardly a care given to the animals' welfare, health, or, if they are not sold when they are still "cute" little things, their ultimate end; the veterinarians, some of whom profit because their patients can't talk; the $2-billion-a-year pet food business, in which nutrition is often a casualty of

Author

Lee Edwards Benning

Publisher

New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co.

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812906271

Subjects

Economics, Agriculture, Business