Business Pet shop, a great business

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Pet shop, a great business

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Brazilians’ love for animals is boosting the number- and profits – of pet shops 

   

According to a survey done by *Assofauna, almost two thirds

 of Brazilian families belonging to classes A, B and C have a dog at home (or other animals, such as cats or birds). They treat their animals as if they were members of the family. That is, today, Brazilians do not limit themselves just to washing, feeding, playing with and caring for their animals. They are increasingly looking for specialized pet shops to buy the best products for their animals. Furthermore, many people are taking their animals to have dental work done, to get special diets to lose weight, to have beauty treatment, and they even have acupuncture done on their animals. This love Brazilians have for their animals, mainly dogs, is boosting the number of pet shops in this country. In November 2004 there were eight thousand of them in Brazil. Today this number has reached nine thousand. Since 1995 this sector has been growing, on average, by 17% a year and turns over about US$ 1.5 billion a year, according to Assofauna data.

* Associação dos Revendedores de Produtos, Prestadores de Serviço e Defesa destinados ao Uso Animal.

Country has large dog population

Brazil is the third country in the world ranking of dog populations: 25 million, behind just the USA and China. As for cats, there are 11 million of them in the country and about 4 million pet birds.

Vocabulary

to boost – impulsionar / fazer aumentar

profit – lucro (s)

pet shop – loja especializada em produtos para animais domésticos

to belong – pertencer

cat - gato (a)

bird – pássaro

to treat – tratar

to feed – alimentar

to care for – tomar conta / cuidar de

increasingly – cada vez mais

furthermore – além disso

to turn over – aqui = movimentar / lucrar