Pet home accessories are another huge area in the pet supplies industry. Whether your loved one is a dog, cat, or other domesticated animal, home accessories can be at once practical, fun for your animal, and fun for you! Ranging from shelters and hidey-holes to entire enclosures and climbing frames, home accessories for pets are the new ‘it’ items to have.

In a practical sense, having a designated area for your pet to sleep or rest can eliminate problems of pet-dirt all over the house and unwanted bed-partners in the middle of the night. Far from the old-fashioned basket and blanket, pet bedding has exploded into the twenty-first century with soft, flexible fabric hutches, cubbies and tubes for dogs, cats, and other small furry animals. Easy to clean – you simply throw them in the washing machine – and easy to move around, these innovations can make your life a lot simpler and your pet a lot happier!

Play-time has also been improved upon with the introduction of high-tech toys and play-grounds for pets. No longer is a soggy ball, stick or piece of string acceptable – not when you can have cat-nip scented battery powered mice, squeeze toys which also help your pet’s dental hygiene, and whole play areas created to challenge and entertain your pet! Cats in particular have benefited from the improvements in the pet-play division of pet supplies, with the creation of challenging play-frames that include scratching posts, swings, rotating poles and dangling items to tempt your feline.