Wake up, it’s a new year!

Happy New Year, fur-iends!

I think staff should make a New Year’s resolution to set her alarm so I don’t have to do all this work getting her up. Speaking of staff’s New Year’s resolutions…..my friends at Halo, Purely for Pets conducted a survey of 1,000 pet staff members to find out about what they plan to do to improve the lives of those they serve. Here were my favorite responses:

88.7% of pet parents plan to help their pets get more exercise, including:
68.3% say they will play with their pets more, 30.3% said they will find a new game to play and 15.8% of those who serve cats say they will run my cat up and down stairs (super fun if you’ve never tried it!)

69.4% plan to feed their pets higher quality food (woo hoo! That’s one Pug and I believe in wholeheartedly. Wish they had all said MORE food but whatever)

86.8% plan to groom their pets more regularly and, of those, 80.3% are going to brush their pets more regularly (better be with the FURminator, just sayin).

And, LOVE this:
94.1% plan to help pets in need by adopting a new pet, fostering, donating, playing Freekibble.com or Freekibblekat.com.

Finally, really big important point….when given the option to “fill in” their own resolution on the survey, lots of pet parents said they will spend more time with their pets (YES!) and love them even more than they did last year. More love is always a good thing!

Personally, I have one resolution: continue building this blog so I can help more pets in need.

What are your New Year’s resolutions?

P.S. you guys probably know this but my staff works with Halo, helping them with their PR. Even if she didn’t, I would still share this survey with you but, well, just lettin’ ya know.