“More and more families are adopting pets, especially dogs,” said Leszek Wacirz, country manager of Nestle Romania not long ago. Nestle Romania operates on the pet food market with its Purina division.
He means that during a time when people had to stay home more, Romanians, but not only them, decided they would like a pet in their lives.
The preference for dogs is because of the free movement restrictions intended to contain the spread of the virus. The reasons why Romanians and people in many countries around the world were allowed to go out were shopping for bare necessities, exercise and walking pets, that is dogs.
The pet trend was late to arrive in Romania but with the improvement in purchasing power and trips to the West, the number of people buying or adopting a pet has increased.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)