'Pet poverty' strikes 1 in 7 pet owners as lifetime cost of cats and dogs exceeds $30K — are pets now only for the rich?

A 2025 survey commissioned by MetLife found 1 in 7 (15%) of U.S. pet owners experience “pet poverty,” struggling to pay for ...
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Pet surrenders rise as economic pressures mount

LYNNWOOD, Wash. — "Zero" arrived at the Lynnwood PAWS shelter as an owner surrender, becoming one of a growing number of pets given up by families who can no longer afford to care for them. Pet ...
NPR

A lesson learned after pets were left behind in Hurricane Katrina: Save the animals

Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see "every star in the sky." It was early September 2005, a ...

'Pet poverty' strikes 1 in 7 US pet owners as the average lifetime cost of caring for cats and dogs exceeds $30K — is raising pets only for the rich?

A 2025 survey commissioned by MetLife found 1 in 7 (15%) of U.S. pet owners experience “pet poverty,” struggling to pay for ...