How do pets stimulate the economy?

In economics class I have to write a 500 word article about how pets stimulate the economy. Any ideas on how exactly they do? Thanks.|||They don't. Your instructor is probably looking for you to say something like,"it causes people to spend more money on pet products." But that's nonsensical. First, spending on pet products is simply diverted from human products, Second, pets produce nothing economically productive. They're even less productive than most humans.|||The first answer was correct.





You can always add that in none of the fastest growing countries do people keep pets.