Proper Nutrition: Pet food in all forms & supplements

Regular Veterinary Care and Health Maintenance: This includes all veterinarians, emergency & urgent care hospitals, the equipment and supplies they use, brick and mortar buildings, medications (both Rx and over the counter).

Grooming and Training: Which is everything from exercise to shampoos to clippers to clickers, to brushes and blow dryers. Any home products that provide a safe and comfortable living environment are also included here.

Toys, Enclosures, and Clothing: The world of fashion for pets is a multi-million dollar enterprise. Toys, leashes, collars, cages, pet beds, dog car seats, pet seats for bicycles, and so much more.

#1) Mars – that’s right, the M&M folks have their chocolate covered fingers in the world of pets. Mars operates in four HUGE business verticals in our country and around the world. You’ll see their name on pet brands like Whiskas, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Sheba, and Orijen. Their newest pet food launch was a premium cat food line in India under the IAMS name.

#2) Nestle – N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestle makes the very best… Pet Food? Another candy and chocolate maker that has diversified into other foods, beverages and now they have their Crunch Bar hands into the world of pets. You’ll know their companies as Purina, Friskies, Fancy Feast, Purina Dentalife, and Cat Chow.

#3) Spectrum Brands – No not the cable and Internet folks. This Spectrum is a US based home-essentials company that specializes in home lock-sets. However, they make quite a bit of money selling pet specialty products and supplies. If you have ever purchase products with the brand names Litter Maid, Dingo, Furminator, SmartBones, GloFish or Tetra… then you’ve bought from Spectrum Brands.

#4) Symrise – This food and beverage manufacture, who is based in Germany, is focused on pet food and pet nutrition products. The most recently made headline when they acquired Wing Pet Food. They are in building stages of a 65.5 million dollar state-of-the-art manufacturing operation in South Carolina.

#5) The J.M. Smucker Company – With a name like Smuckers, they have to be in the… pet care industry? Believe it or not, the jelly fellas also manufacture coffee, peanut butter, Twinkies, and a large portfolio of pets foods and snacks. You’ll know them as brands like Milk-Bone, Meow Mix, Canine Carry-Outs, Milo’s Kitchen, and Pup-peroni.

Pet food delivery services: PetSmart, PetCo, and Chewy are names we all know. They will bring EVERYTHING from their warehouse to your doorstep, and if you buy enough they will do it without shipping charges. These big folks also offer discounts if you setup a regular subscription delivery service on your most used products.

New players in this space are the “Fresh Food” companies like The Farmers Dog, Ollie, Pets Table, We Feed Raw, Spot & Tango, and Nom-Nom… to name a few. Most of these services make fresh food tailored to your pets specific likes, dietary needs, breed, or medical requirements. Pricey, yes… but most of it is guaranteed to be your pets favorite thing EVER.

Smart Pet Feeders: Talk about walking into the age of the internet! Smart Pet Feeders are locked down for portion control, WiFi enabled so you can check in on the food left, portion size, time to distribute food, and some even have onboard LED cameras so you can check out your pets while they eat. Yes… the even have night vision cameras so you can sneak a peak of your fur kids chowing down at night. Why don’t they have these for human kids, husbands, or the Mother-in-Law in your guest room?

GPS Pet Trackers: These tracking collars for your pets are waterproof, battery operated, web enabled, easy to install, GPS locators with Smart Abilities. They can link up with your invisible fence so you get up to the minute alerts on your dog going all “Prison Break” and them give you the ability to track them down with your smart phone. Imagine if you could put one of these on your kids or spouse!!

Pet Cameras: Treat your fur kids even more like your human child with a pet monitor and camera. Much like the Pet Tracker, these indoor cameras are cutting edge technology that allow you to check in on your pets when you’re out. These WiFi enable, remote access control, spy cameras can come with motion detectors, night vision capabilities, sound and two way sound and talk (If you talk to your pet and they answer you… you have a much bigger problem than them getting out of their cage or eating some trash). With up to 2K video clarity, its the next best thing to being there… or stalking there.

Automatic Litter Boxes: That’s right, a robot litter box that cleans your cats poop, drops it into a compartment below the box (and some models bag it for you), provides some level of freshener to cut the smell, and can notify you when the litter needs changing or the pan is full. These modern marvels won’t operate if your cat is “sans poop”, so the cat won’t freak out that ghosts are craving their droppings. The only thing they don’t do is wipe your cats bum and tell them how well they did in their pooping efforts. But if you have a Pet Camera with two way video and audio, you can chime in remotely. It’s the next best thing to being there… it’s probably better than being there!