{"id":149933,"date":"2018-07-25T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149933"},"modified":"2018-07-25T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:40:43","slug":"more-cats-than-dogs-in-pet-sitter-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=149933","title":{"rendered":"More cats than dogs in pet-sitter services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-149934\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Petsitters-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Petsitters-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Petsitters-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Petsitters-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Petsitters.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(Pet Sitters International)\u00a0 Move over Rover, Fido and Spot\u2014dogs may be man\u2019s best friend, but cats are king when it comes to professional pet-care services. New survey data released by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petsit.com\/cats-rule-the-pet-care-market\">Pet Sitters International<\/a> (PSI), the world\u2019s largest educational association for professional pet sitters, reveals that more professional pet sitting businesses are now offering services for cats than for dogs.<\/p>\n<p>PSI found in its 2018 State of the Industry Survey that 97.3 percent of responding pet sitters offer services for cats, while 96.2 percent offer services for dogs. In 2016, 96.1 percent indicated they serviced dogs and 95.5 percent indicated they serviced cats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the pet-services industry is often depicted as very dog-focused, new cat owners may wonder who they can rely on for their pet-care needs,\u201d said Beth Stultz-Hairston, PSI\u2019s vice president of marketing and operations. \u201cHowever, the majority of PSI\u2019s member businesses offer care for both cats and dogs, as well as many other pet types.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Pet Sitters International)\u00a0 Move over Rover, Fido and Spot\u2014dogs may be man\u2019s best friend, but cats are king when it comes to professional pet-care services. New survey data released by Pet Sitters International (PSI), the world\u2019s largest educational association for professional pet sitters, reveals that more professional pet sitting businesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149936,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149933\/revisions\/149936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}