Bristolians Answer: Does the rising cost of living deter you from having a pet?

Bristolians Answer: Does the rising cost of living deter you from having a pet? We ask locals how they feel about rising pet bills

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00:00We're not planning to get another pet but we over the years we had five old English sheepdogs

00:06who were much admired all over BS9. We did have a pet but we didn't go down the route of getting

00:16another one once the pet passed away I'm afraid. My husband suffers a bit with allergies so it's

00:23always a you know a point that we have to look at before having a pet. We've had five, repeat five,

00:33old English sheepdogs over the last 40 odd years. The last one died two years ago. It is a

00:41possibility yes yeah because obviously you know you've got to I suppose like most people you have

00:48to think of yourself and your family so you know a pet would come at the bottom of the

00:54pile as it were so yeah I would imagine a lot of people wouldn't be having pets now.