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How much would you spend to save your sick pet?
Mar 25, 2013
For many people, pets are members of the family. So how do you put a price on the life of your pet?
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Pfizer to spin off animal pharmaceuticals
Jan 2, 2013
Demand for animal drugs is rising amongst pet owners and livestock and poultry farmers.
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What happens (or doesn't) when Spot outlives you
Sep 14, 2012
To keep pets out of shelters after owners die, the ASPCA is urging people to plan ahead. Identify a new guardian. Collect medical records. And yes, if you can afford it, put Splash in your will.
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Drug companies cash in on curing animals
Sep 3, 2012
Animal health care is the fastest growing sector of health care. Medicine for the pets we love and the livestock we eat is a more than $4 billion business for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
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The mobile Internet economy
May 31, 2012
The troubled Facebook IPO is casting a pall over high tech (wrongly, I think). The signal moment for the emergence of an even larger digital economy wasn't Facebook. It was Apple's iPad. It's the visible symbol of the rapid embrace of wireless data -- video, images, content, data and communication -- throughout the global economy. A safe forecast: The mobile Internet will transform personal finance.
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Putting a price on your pet's health
Feb 17, 2012
The price of looking after your pet is rising as far and fast as the cost of human healthcare. Gregory Warner reports on why we are willing to pay so much for our animals.
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The hard decision
Feb 17, 2012
One of the toughest decisions a pet owner has to make is how and when to end an animal's life. Tess talks with pet owners and a vet about balancing the cost of life and death.
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The cost of being 'Best in Show'
Feb 17, 2012
New York hosted the Westminster Dog Show this week. Tess talked with dog owners to find out just how much it costs to put your pooch on parade at the most prestigious award show in America.
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The Westminster Dog Show and the pet economy
Feb 14, 2012
Does the best breed at the Westminster dog show impact the broader pet economy in America?
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Mid-day Extra: Spending is unleashed on pets
Nov 2, 2011
In a time of belt-tightening, why are Americans spending more on their pets?
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