CURRENTNews
PetSmart Charities Helps Midwest Flood Victims
PetSmart Charities (Phoenix) delivered hundreds of pet crates, bowls, collars, leads and more than 4 tons of cat litter to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in June to help pets displaced by widespread flooding.... 
Manufacturers, Retailers Settle Pet Food Recall Lawsuits
Several companies that manufactured or sold contaminated pet food during last year’s historic recall agreed in May to pay a total of $24 million to U.S. and Canadian owners whose pets got sick or died as a result of eating the food...
FDA Calls for Food Seizure at Petco Distribution Center
Acting at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. marshals in June seized various animal food products stored under unsanitary conditions at the Petco distribution center in Joliet, Ill., pursuant to a warrant issued by the U.S. District Court in Chicago....
USDA Considers Tougher Transport Rules for Many Animals
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in May proposed to extend minimum shipping-age requirements to all warm-blooded animals except birds...
Hawaii Redefines “Animal Hoarding”
By defining animal hoarding as possessing more than 20 dogs or cats, a new law could conceivably cause some Hawaiian pet stores and breeders to be accused of animal hoarding, according to the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (Washington)...
Louisiana Approves Dog Breeding Limit
A bill that prohibits individuals or businesses from maintaining more than 75 dogs over the age of 1 year for breeding purposes awaited Gov. Bobby Jindal’s signature at press time...
Casco, Pacific Store Designs and PET AGE. Sponsor Store Makeover Contest
Ever dream about making your store brighter? More modern? More customer-friendly? Casco Group Inc. (Cerritos, Calif.), Pacific Store Designs Inc. (Garden Grove, Calif.) and PET AGE Magazine (Chicago) might make your dreams come true: They will award a professional pet store makeover to one retailer attending H.H. Backer’s 42nd Annual Christmas Trade Show in Rosemont (Chicago), Ill., in October...
PIJAC Launches Search for New Leader
The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (Washington), a legislative watchdog group for the U.S. pet trade, in June launched a search for its next leader. The new position of president, part of a structural reorganization, is a key component of a four-year growth plan to ensure the council’s independence and continuity.... Consumer Confidence Sags to All-Time Low in June
Thanks to rising food and energy prices, falling housing prices and a softening job market, consumer confidence fell to an all-time low in June, according to the RBC Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household Index by RBC Capital Markets (New York)...
Backer’s Spring Trade Show Debuts in Baltimore
More than 6,100 qualified buyers from 2,082 firms—including nearly 2,300 first-time attendees—attended H.H. Backer’s 20th Annual Pet Industry Spring Trade Show, held May 16-18 at its new venue, the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore...
Retailers Win Prizes in Backer’s Super Trivia Challenge
Ray Farley of Petland in Dunwoody, Ga., won two round-trip tickets on United Airlines as the overall winner of the Super Trivia Challenge at H.H. Backer’s 20th Annual Pet Industry Spring Trade Show in Baltimore. He also won a $200 MasterCard gift card as Friday’s top winner...
Interzoo Draws More Than 37,000
A record 37,200 trade visitors from 114 countries flocked to the 30th edition of Interzoo, the largest exhibition of pet supplies in the world, held May 22-25 at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg in Nuremberg, Germany. That represented an increase of 9 percent from 34,181 trade visitors attending the biennial event in 2006...
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