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- That 80% of pet owners in the United States give their pets birthday presents.
- There are more than 400 Pet Cemeteries in the United States.
- The oldest known Pet Cemetery was uncovered in Green County, IL by archaeologist, Dr. Stewart Schrever, He believes the pets were interred there around 6500 BC.
- The oldest operating Pet Cemetery in the United States is the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in New York, established in 1896.
- The largest Pet Cemetery in the United States is Bide-A-Wee Home Association, also located in New York. Bide-A-Wee operates at least three animal shelters, as well as its satellite Pet Cemeteries and has over 5000 pets in one site alone.
- The amount of money people spend on their pets has nearly doubled during the last 10 years, from an estimated $21 billion in 1996 to $38.5 billion in 2006, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturing Association. As the cost of owning a pet has grown, so has the cost of dealing with a pet's death.
- In the United States, where an estimated 63 percent of households have a pet of some sort, Americans are shelling out big money to memorialize their animals.
*Sources - IAOPCC / Colombia University Journal / Growing Up With Pets
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