Petsmo's Index of Facts and Statistics
Annual pet industry sales in the US: $35 billion
Amount people spend on pet “groom and board” in the US annually: $2.2 billion
Number of pet owners who tell their pets they love them every night: 91%
Percentage of people who buy their pets birthday gifts: 61%
Cost of boarding for double occupancy luxury boarding room at Petsuites in Aliso Viejo, CA: $92/day
Minimum number of dogs euthanized in the US this year (as of July 29, 2005): 2 604 409
Minimum number of dogs lost: 6 022 732
Number adopted: 578 134
Days on which it is illegal to hunt whales in Ohio: Sunday
Britney Spears’ 2001 income, the year she performed at the MTV video awards with a 6 foot albino python: $38 million
Estimated income of the UPS driver who discovered a 9 foot albino python in 2005: $70,000
Percentage of dog owners that travel with their pets: 87%
Number of glasses of milk a cow produces in her lifetime: 200,000
Snakes are immune to their own poison
Hummingbirds are one of the few birds that can't walk
The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box: Bingo
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible: The cat
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was punishable by death
At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog
The dogs that played Lassie on television were actually male
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