Monthly pet spending holds steady throughout the pandemic
Money/Morning Consult More than one in five respondents to the survey (22%) said they’d welcomed a new animal into their lives since March 2020. The age of the owner (and others in the home) made a big difference to the likelihood of becoming a new pet parent. Younger people and younger families were by far the most likely to have added a pandemic pet. GenZers, Millennials and families with kids at home were all about 50% more likely than respondents as a whole to have acquired an animal since March 2020. Money/Morning Consult Shelters were the No. 1 source of new pets, with 37% of pet pare...