10mln felines and other 8mln dogs in Italy

In Italy, according to the Assalco-Zoomark 2024 Report, there are approximately 10 million felines and 8.8 million dogs. Despite their increasingly central presence in Italian families, pet owners face high costs to ensure their health and well-being.

Veterinary services, essential to ensure animal welfare that all owners are obliged to comply with, are currently taxed at 22%.

Even pet food and cat litter, including ecological and sustainable ones, are taxed at 22%, making the management of pets even more expensive. This is a problem that trade associations have been reporting to politicians for years, asking for a review of the taxation on essential goods for animal welfare. Requests that have always gone unheard.

Added to this is the general decline in the purchasing power of Italian families, caused by the increase in the prices of consumer goods due to current geopolitical conditions.

The combination of high taxation and inflation increasingly discourages people from adopting dogs and cats, contributing to the abandonment and overcrowding of Italian kennels and catteries, the maintenance of which, it is worth remembering, is an economic burden on all citizens.

Source
Assalco zoomark

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