US — APPA 2025 Dog & Cat Report: species-segment ownership trends
Source: APPA "The American Pet Products Association (APPA) Releases 2025 Dog & Cat Report" press release (americanpetproducts.org), first-hand official release, pulled 2026-07-30. This topic covers species-segment ownership trends from the report; the aggregate US household and expenditure headline figures are covered separately by the existing market_stats_appa_us_2024_2026 topic (95M households; $158B 2024 actual / $165B 2026 projected). All figures below are verbatim from the source release.
Species-segment framing
- "The American Pet Products Association (APPA) Releases 2025 Dog & Cat Report"
- "the two largest segments of the pet industry, dog and cat owners" (the report scopes dogs and cats as the two largest segments)
- "APPA’s *National Pet Owners Survey*" (the underlying data source for the report)
Headline trends reported
- "Cat ownership is on the rise. A 23% increase in ownership in 2024" (the report highlights "the Year of the Cat": rising cat ownership, more multi-cat homes)
- "more than 200 pages of comprehensive analysis" (the report's scope: 200+ pages of analysis and visuals on owner shopping trends, sentiment, demographics and behaviours)
Note: The free press release reports directional trends (e.g., cat ownership +23% in 2024; dogs and cats as the two largest segments) but does NOT publish absolute species population counts (e.g., total dogs/cats in millions). Those absolute counts sit in the paid APPA National Pet Owners Survey data set and are not quoted here to avoid unverifiable figures. This topic is therefore limited to what the first-hand release states verbatim.
Source: pdf-raw/market-stats/us_appa_dog_cat_report_2026-07-30.txt — APPA 2025 Dog & Cat Report press release, pulled 2026-07-30.