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These days, you’re not so strange if you want to pamper your pooch. Especially not according to the latest spending figures, which show our fur kids are attracting some serious retail therapy. Dr Joanne Sillince, the new head of the Pet Industry Association of Australia (PIAA), says Australians are now lavishing $4.6 billion a year on their beloved pets (according to BIS Shrapnel’s 2006 research) — and not just for basics like food and medical care, but for luxury extras like designer clothing, grooming and holidays.It’s all part of a global trend to ‘pet spend’, with the most recent US figures showing Americans are bestowing $44 billion a year on their animals, with predictions that figure will rise by nearly six per cent in 2008..... More