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The American Pet Products Association predicts U.S. pet owners will spend an estimated $60.59 billion on their pets in 2015. Naturally, cost varies depending on the dog’s breed and size. And even though dogs are more expensive to own the cats, canine pet visits grew 1.9% in 2014.

Americans spent over $30 billion on their pets last year, right in step with the economic recovery, and veterinary clinic owners and managers who expect to see their business expand this year may very well be right. But according to the latest dvm360.com survey, not even half of veterinarians practicing today would recommend their profession to their kids. Ten years ago more than three out of four would have. With all this money dedicated to pets, we have to wonder why veterinary medicine professionals feel this way.

There is no denying pets play an important part of our lives – they are family after all. Many pet owners will do whatever they can to improve – or at least maintain – their pets’ health. Because of this dedication, it is in your best interest to accept all payment methods to make the owners’ decision that much easier, but there are some innovative payment alternatives that may help you increase your revenue.

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You became a vet because you love animals. Think back to how you may have started your quest to become a veterinarian: Adopting a pet, volunteering at a shelter, maybe even fund raising, or elevating awareness on how to prevent overpopulation of stray animals (As Bob Barker, and now Drew Carey, has always stated).

American Pet Products estimates that American pet owners will spend $23 billion on pet food this year and an additional $14 billion on “supplies,” a category that would have mystified John Thornton, the main human character in Jack London’s classic novel The Call of the Wild (which was written, incidentally, not far from CrossCheck’s headquarters).

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Shakespeare’s wild and undisciplined Prince Harry gave us one of the greatest truisms ever uttered: “Love is blind.” And perhaps at no time in the centuries since The Bard’s troupe first performed Henry IV has that been truer than now – so long as you’re talking about Americans and their pets. Americans have over 140 million pets, and the American Pet Products Association says that 42% of the dogs sleep in bed with their human. Apparently we don’t fully realize they’re animals, and we seem to believe that all our pets need is love, since only a third of us take them to the veterinarian -- even when they’re sick.