Economist Timothy Taylor puts the results of the one of the findings of the US Consumer Expenditure Survey into perspective – that the average US household spent $61.4 billion on their pets.
America spent about nine times as much on pet care as it did on choosing all its federally elections in 2012.
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the average U.S. household spends more on pets than the poverty line for humans in the developing world. And the statistics don’t include the fact that pets live rent-free.