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Issue #72

June 6th, 2024

Take advantage of the booming $115 billion pet industry by starting your own multi-service pet business 💰 🐶 

Pet Butler is a fast-growing franchise made of people who are passionate about pets. Pet Butler has expanded their lines of service to include:

  • Pet waste removal

  • Pet shuttle service

  • Pet care (pet walking and pet sitting)

They are rapidly expanding their national footprint and looking to partner with entrepreneurs who are passionate about pets and interested in building a business of their own or diversifying their existing pet business. 👇 👇👇👇

This Week

💰 Business Roundup: Biocraft achieves a major goal, Petco stocks are going 🆙, world’s first analysis cam, and much more…

🌎 In The News: Can dogs eat cicadas, $35m in historic mistreatment case, Japan’s AI cat startups, and more…

🥓 Pet Food: Copper in dog food, raw food recall, new UK functional treats

💼 Job Board: Contact us if you want to post a job listing.

Quick Hits:

  • Shaking things up - Petco is restructuring its executive leadership team.

  • PIN - The Pet Industry Network is hosting its virtual Growth Summit 2024 event this June.

  • Majority stake - Independence Pet Holdings has acquired a majority interest in Spot Pet Insurance.

  • Price drop - Cultivated meat startup BioCraft, has achieved price parity with premium pet food brands. (Read our interview with the founder)

  • 8 out of 10 - That’s Chewy’s number of sales from repeat customers.

  • Tweezers for pets - Tweezerman, the men’s grooming brand is launching a collection of tools for man’s best friends.

  • Freight train - Petco Health (WOOF) is soaring amid short-squeeze speculation.

  • AI pet cam - SiiPet recently launched the world's first pet behavior analysis camera.

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  • Cicadas are coming - Can your pet eat them?

  • Do dogs get it? - The hand-stacking TikTok trend is heartwarming and insanely cute, but do dogs know what they’re doing?

  • C(AI)t - Japan has over 9 million pet cats. Startups are tapping into artificial intelligence to keep the country's aging felines healthy.

  • This needs to stop! - A company that breeds dogs for medical testing has been fined a record $35m after 4,000 beagles were rescued from its facility.

  • Sad or happy? - Dogs have different facial expressions but their ability to properly use them has been reduced by selective breeding.

  • Across the pond - HOWND launched three flavors of hypoallergenic functional treats for UK pets.

  • A raw deal - The FDA has issued a recall of raw pet food due to potential salmonella and listeria contamination.

  • The more you know - Copper levels in pet food are a serious problem but pet food regulations written by AAFCO have no maximum level of copper for dog and cat foods.

Contact us if you’re a company in the pet space that wants to post a job listing.

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