Be Kind to Animals Week & National Pet Week

This week two celebrations to mark our respect and care for animals occur. Be Kind to Animals Week was started in 1915 by the American Humane Association. The objective is to pay honour to the role animals play in our lives and promote everyone to treat animals humanely. National Pet Week's goals are to promote responsible pet ownership. Also to honour the relationship between animals and humans and bring an awareness of veterinary medicine to the public.

Here in the United Kingdom our nation’s love for pets is stronger than ever. Perhaps this is due to companionship needs, security or just simply for more family fun. Whatever the reasons behind pet ownership they play an integral part in most peoples lives. There are 27 million pets in the country and 43% of homes include at least one furry, feathery or scaly family friend, making pets well and truly part of the UK’s landscape.

A recent pet owner study concluded that there are 27 million pets in the UK with dogs and cats being the animal of choice for pet lovers with over 7.3 and 7.2 million across the UK respectively. One interesting if not rather depressing statistic shown by the survey is that 39% of London’s pet owners purchase their pet for companionship, despite living in the UK’s highest populated city. This trend of pets for companionship was also shown in the fact that 60% of single people in the UK buy a pet for companionship – 39% of whom have replaced their partner with a pet.

So if you want to spoil your much loved pet why not treat them with a gift from our range of personalised gifts for pets?