Americans take their pets very seriously. Ridiculously so in my opinion. Trust me. I have pets and my wife and I have spent so much money on them to keep them well that we could have paid for two round-the-world travels packages for less. Our cat, Bailey, we now refer to as Bailey Billions because of how much money we have spent on him to keep him alive. I could go into details but suffice it to say, in the wild, he’d have died a good ten years ago.

Why do I bring this up? Just today BlinkinBlogs.com, the site you are looking at, had an ad over there on the right to this website thanks to google adsense. See these guys ahve capitalized on the idea that Americans will buy basically anything for their pets. Last I heard the pet industry was at like 9 billion per year in America alone. If you chance to look at that site you will know why. I am not saying that pet safety isn’t something a pet owner should ignore, but after a while you have to ask yourself where should we draw the line.

Of course I make all these observations knowing that both of my dogs have microchips inserted into them so that if they are lost they can be scanned and said scanner can learn their entire medical history. Hey that only costs us like $50/yr each pet. What a bargain!