The Dollar-a-week We Spend On 'pampering' Our Pets

In his report "Pampering pals of fur and feathers costs billions" (The Age, 28/7), Brendan Nicholson quotes the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimate of $1.5 billion spent on 25 million "pets" in Australia. This works out to a little over $1 a week. If this is "pampering", please don't pamper me.