In most western countries, pets are on #2 after spendings for children in households, so your bet made sense. Though, as a lot of companies, tractions wasnt big enough back then.

Today, e.g. ZooPlus is one of the biggest pet-stuff-retailers (2023 revenue 2.5billion)

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kevinh an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That doesn't help someone that invested in pets.com: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com

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ahartmetz 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm pretty sure that housing, cars and food are #1, #2 and #3. Your definition of household spending seems a little unconventional. If pets are household spending, surely so is food for humans?

	▲	KellyCriterion an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It was a little inaccurate, you are right: #2 "after all payments done for yourself/husband" #1 will be the kids
	▲	nly 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You can always eat your pets

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pingou 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was a joke I suppose.