US pet food total market sales

In the ledger of 2020, Americans added pets and withdrew children from school at roughly the same pace, which describes either a large reorganization of the home or a small surrender. The dogs, again, look happy. The children, you'd have to ask.

Both surged in 2020 for the same covid reason. The US homeschool population roughly doubled as schools closed and parents pulled children from reopening campuses, while pet food sales boomed as pandemic adoption broke records. Two responses to the same closed-building year, both accumulating in the same living rooms.

So the correlation is the quiet arithmetic of a home that became its own school and its own pet shelter. The adults managed both. Barely.