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Recently, France's "Anti-Cruelty to Animals Act" came into effect. The bill passed by a near-unanimous vote in the French Senate on November 18, 2021, and will officially enter into force on January 1, 2024. According to the law, all pet shops in France will no longer be allowed to sell pet cats and dogs, and it is forbidden to display animals in shop windows. After the law comes into force, pet stores can only sell cats and dogs in cooperation with animal rights associations such as the French Animal Protection Association, stray or abandoned or lost pets, and the sale must be carried out in the presence of volunteers from the animal foundation or association, and online animal sales will also be more strictly regulated.
In addition, the bill also provides for legal liability for pet abuse and killing. Animal abusers can be sentenced to up to five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros (about 580,000 yuan), as well as attending relevant training courses. Purchasers of pets must also sign a document certifying their knowledge of ownership.
- Cats and dogs are the most popular types of pets for pet owners
From the perspective of pet type structure, there are 6 types of pets in the mainland: cats, dogs, aquariums, reptiles, rodents, and birds, among which most of them are pet users who take cats and dogs as pets. According to the data released by the "2022 China Pet Consumption Report", the number of pet cats and pet dogs in urban areas across the country reached 116.55 million in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 3.7%. Among them, the number of pet dogs was 51.19 million, accounting for 51.3%, all of which declined; The number of pet cats was 65.36 million, accounting for 60.7%, both of which increased significantly.
-- The development of the pet market
The global pet market is mainly composed of pet food, pet products, and other pet food. According to Euromonitor data, the global pet market size is on the rise year by year from 2016 to 2020. In 2020, the global pet market size reached 138.243 billion US dollars, an increase of 4.40% over 2019.
In 2020, the size of the pet market in the United States will be 56.773 billion US dollars, and the size of the European pet market will be 39.787 billion US dollars. Driven by the pet market, the development of pet feed in Europe and the United States is ahead of other regions.
Shi Ke, vice governor of Jiangxi Province, said that the pet industry is a sunrise industry for sustainable development, which is of special significance to increase employment, stimulate consumption and form a new economic growth point.
Xin Shengpeng, vice president and secretary general of the Chinese Veterinary Medical Association, said that the current rapid development of China's pet industry, pet consumption shows great vitality, and continues to bring new increments to the development of the pet economy, but with the continuous expansion of the "pet economy", relevant regulatory policies should also continue to follow up to guide the healthy and benign development of the pet industry.
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