A good sign for companies on over the counter exchanges is when they do what is necessary to continue to grow and move up the ladder for listing on a national exchange, such as the NASDAQ or the NYSE. On Tuesday, Giggles N’ Hugs (OTC: GIGL) signed an agreement with a well-known New York investment bank to help alleviate this process.

Exposure and market awareness are keys for growth in public markets. In today’s social media-connected world, constant blogging; uploading pictures and videos; presenting on the conference circuit; and hiring the right professionals are all essential for companies looking to stay ahead of the competition. Having a superior product or service is nice, but, if no one knows about it, what good is it?

GIGL has an impressive active blog on its website that is very informative and engaging to current and potential customers alike. It also has a solid Facebook page with more than 3,500 likes and posts pictures of some of its delicious, health-conscious menu items along with coupons and specials to attract patrons. The latest special is a ‘Homework Happy Hour’ promotion in which, if your child brings in their homework, he or she gets admission for $5 and a free cupcake. Little things like this will go a long way toward building a happy, loyal customer base with the gift of gab.

Another important piece of the gluten free pie, as mentioned earlier, is hiring the right professionals to help you excel in your craft. Giggles N’ Hugs hiring an experienced investment bank is much like a baseball player hiring a good hitting coach. You want someone that has seen and hit every single pitch every single way. Even though father time has taken away their ability to hit those pitches, they can still pass along that invaluable knowledge and experience to you so you can maximize your at bats and advance your career, or, in this case, your listing exchange.

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Avant Diagnostics (OTC: AVDX) is a leading medical technology company focused on advancing innovative solutions that improve upon the ways we screen for ovarian cancer. AVDX’s energy and resources aim to bring to market innovative diagnostic tests based upon the completion of the human genome sequencing project. The company works at developing a sophisticated screening test for diagnosing ovarian cancer using OvaDx® – a unique large-panel biomarker screening test for this deadly disease.

OvaDx is an advanced diagnostic test used specifically for measuring the activation of the immune system in response to ovarian tumor cell development. Patient sera are used in conjunction with OvaDx microarrays, which enable binding between proteomic biomarkers in the patient samples and capture agents on the microarrays. In this process, the microarrays are washed and scanned to produce a digital readout for each serum sample. From this point, the data are quantified and analyzed using software to produce the results of the test.

AVDX’s discovery path comes by way of ten years of genetic and physiological research. Avant Diagnostics concentrates on leveraging the human immune system for early detection. As a result, OvaDx delivers a large panel of refined markers for high sensitivity. The company’s proprietary OvaDx markers and kits include patented manufacturing technology, as well as a worldwide license. Following FDA 510(k) clearance, the company plans to license OvaDx for sale. Avant’s business plan looks to use its position as a public company to expand its portfolio of diagnostic tests going forward.

Genetic research is predominantly centered on identifying the variations of the specific genes in the genome. These variations define individual characteristics, including disease states or a statistical propensity for disease. The implications are far-reaching and impact not only the research community, but also the individual patients and care providers. Diagnostic tests that detect diseases very early in their progression will provide options for earlier treatments that show promise of improving quality of life and prognosis by delaying or preventing disease progression. It has been noted that medical providers will realize major cost savings by avoiding costly treatments at late stages.

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LD Micro yesterday kicked-off its Main Event Small-Cap conference in Los Angeles, where several speakers addressed an audience of eager attendees, who were also given the opportunity to attend informative panels and presentations from about 20 small-cap companies.

The event opened up with financial analyst Andrew Wheeler discussing QE4 (the Fed’s bond-buying program), quantitative easing and how interest rates are impacting the economy. Up next was Tobias Carlisle, author of the website Greenbackd and the books Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations and Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors.

Of course, it’s no investor conference without an array of investment options and enthusiastic executives. After the afternoon events, about 20 small-cap companies initiated three-days of company presentations from businesses covering a wide range of industries, including beverages, healthcare, technology, biotech, fitness and more.

Attendees were then privy to panels covering cannabis and uplisting, followed by evening speaking presentations by Adam Epstein, author and advisor to the boards of pre-IPO and small-cap companies, and David Weild, the man Forbes calls the “Father of the JOBS Act.”

Today’s schedule is chock-full of presentations from innovative, high potential companies from all over the United States and abroad. If you’re missing out on the event, head over to www.ldmicro.missionir.com and take a look at the presentation schedule and find out a bit about each company.

*Schedule is subject to change throughout the course of the event

One of the major concerns for families with loved ones suffering from diseases like Alzheimer’s, autism spectrum disorder, and/or dementia is the problem of wandering, which can be immensely stressful for families and unfortunately often results in injury or even death for those impaired. For instance, National Autism Association data from 2009 to 2011 indicates that 91 percent of fatalities among children with autism under 14 years of age were due to accidental drowning. Wandering has understandably become a major topic of discussion in the relevant caregiver communities and in the case of autism spectrum disorder, where nearly half of parents indicated in an Interactive Autism Network study that their child with autism has wandered from home, the majority of cases we hear about involve children. However, as autism advocacy organization Autism Speaks staffer Kerry Magro recently noted, “We need to make sure we don’t see wandering as a problem only in children.”

For Alzheimer’s patients and especially members of the elderly population who suffer from dementia, the concern is even more palpable, as, societally speaking, people are more likely to identify an unattended child as being in need of assistance, whereas an elderly person is typically ignored by strangers and left to wander. Moreover, the aged bodies of the elderly are more susceptible to injury and in most cases, such injuries, which often do not heal as readily as in younger people, can pose significant/persistent impairment concerns from which an older person may never really recover. Even something as simple to the average reader as a fall can have devastating impact on the long term quality of life of an elderly person, especially if they are also afflicted with Alzheimer’s or dementia.

And yet there is still considerable stigma attached to anti-wandering jewelry and accessories, not the least of which is often from patients themselves, despite how vitally important such potentially life-saving items can be, with most patients disliking or simply refusing to wear such objects. While smartphones could theoretically solve this problem, most elderly folks either don’t have, or forget to carry a smartphone. Needless to say, the amount of constant stress the problem of wandering puts on caregivers has created a sizable market in and of itself, and the broader caregiving market has seen innovative start-ups focused on helping to address the well-being of people over 50 rake in around $1.3 billion in funding by mid-2015 alone as a direct result.

At the National Alliance for Caregiving roundtable discussion last year, the consensus was quite clear that technological innovation supporting family members and other caregivers was becoming increasingly paramount, and that we have barely scratched the surface of what might be possible in this area. Unfortunately, as illustrated in a recent article from AARP entitled Caregiving Help from Tech Breakthroughs, while many emerging products in this area may sound great on paper, the hoped-for utility and assistance they represent may not always translate readily into practice.

Luckily, some amazing devices that ably leap over the hurdle of going from idea to practice are now becoming more and more prevalent, with one such example, an ingenious “invisible GPS” offering from GTX Corp. (OTC: GTXO) known as the SmartSole®, being prominently featured as the top pick in the AARP special report article. The award winning and patented assistive recovery wearable GPS SmartSole looks and feels, for all intents and purposes, like the sort of shoe insole you might find at a local pharmacy, but the product is actually a sophisticated GPS- and cellular-enabled tracking device that allows caregivers or friends and family to monitor the location of a loved one in real-time using an intuitive and easy-to-use Smart Locator App that delivers coordinates rendered via Google Maps.

With over 100 million people currently requiring some form of care or oversight due to cognitive impairment, a figure forecast in the 2013 World Alzheimer’s Report as nearly doubling by 2050 to over 277 million, this elegant solution provides the kind of robust, always-on geo-fencing needed to ensure the safety of loved ones, as well as caregiver’s peace of mind. While wanderers may not want to wear special tracking accessories, or they may forget to take a smartphone with them, they almost never forget to wear their shoes – a factor which makes the SmartSole really stand out as an ingenious piece of design. And the company even offers a Platinum Concierge Live Operator Assistance package to consumers which takes the standard online tracking and alerts package to the next level, providing round-the-clock concierge monitoring with live operators ready to assist caregivers in locating a lost loved one.

An estimated 5.1 million Americans currently have Alzheimer’s and the vast majority are aged 65 and up, a figure set to rise 40 percent by 2025 to over 7.1 million according to the Alzheimer’s Association. With no cure in sight and an increasingly aged population to contend with, the nearly 18 billion hours of unpaid care delivered last year by friends and family of people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia in America is only going to rise higher moving forward, meaning that the roughly $218 billion worth of contribution that this unpaid care represents will also increase. Take into consideration the physical and emotional toll such caregiving takes on unpaid friends and family, and it is no shock to hear that such caregivers experienced a collective $9.7 billion in additional personal healthcare costs last year.

Needless to say, the market for technologies like the SmartSole is both massive and growing, with no foreseeable end to such growth in sight. The importance of response time when it comes to locating wanderers is another big driving factor here, with the first half hour being the most crucial window according to experts who routinely deal with such incidents. The typical scenario that ensues once a loved one with special needs is actually identified as being lost, often involves panic and scrambling to alert others, including family, neighbors, and law enforcement. To make matters worse, in some cases the individual is eventually located within their own home, hiding under a bed or in a closet – and while this makes the ordeal less dangerous to the health of the wanderer, it is a costly, time consuming, and nerve-racking experience for caregivers and first responders.

The SmartSole brilliantly alleviates nearly all of the standard concerns associated with wandering and the product does so in a way that can even be easily shielded from the individual in question, meaning they do not have to bear the shame of needing such help, or the feeling of causing others an imposition. And for GTXO, the SmartSole is just the tip of the iceberg, as the company has a whole array of complete end-to-end IoT (internet of things) based solutions for this sort of tracking, all of it backed up by an extensive portfolio of patents, patents pending, registered trademarks, copy rights, and branded URLs.

AARP is the largest 50 and over membership organization in the country, with over 37 million members and is also one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the U.S., meaning that GTXO’s SmartSole being so prominently featured is a real coup for the company. Big news for a small company like this, which is currently pulling out all the stops to let caregivers know about its powerful, life-saving technology.

For more information on the GTX Corp family of products and services visit http://gtxcorp.com, www.gpssmartsole.com, www.trackmyworkforce.net, www.codeamberalertag.com and www.locimobile.com

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I remember growing up and going to birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese’s, and it was totally awesome. Some of the best moments of my childhood were definitely spent at birthday parties with lots of pin the tail on the donkey and smashing the piñata. Giggles N’ Hugs (OTC: GIGL) has gone one giant step further than Chuck E. Cheese’s and added a very impressive, health conscience menu to draw in the gluten-free, organic, vegetarian crowd.

We live in a society today where we take vitamins, count calories, exercise and drink ultra light beer after running a marathon. Plus, our children are the most important aspects of our lives, so, conceptually, a fun place to have a birthday party where we can also have a healthy plate of Wild Alaskan Salmon along with a lovely glass of Sauvignon Blanc sounds like a match made in heaven.

Giggles N’ Hugs has been voted #1 Birthday Party Place and Best Pizza in Los Angeles by Nickelodeon, and after glancing over their menu, I’m ready to reserve a spot for Little Johnny next weekend. Plus, don’t forget about the kids… Every 30 minutes, staff orchestrates fun activities, such as kids karaoke, face painting, dance parties, scavenger hunts, bubble time, arts & crafts and so much more.

The company has three locations in the greater Los Angeles area so far (Century City, Topanga and Glendale), and that number should grow exponentially once a few more celebrities and paparazzi get together for some of their ‘Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams’.

Keep your eye on the company, as it is in its infant stages at the moment, but good ideas always get noticed and I believe this one definitely has wings. The trick is to get in on the ground floor before one of the restaurant behemoths, such as YUM! Brands (NYSE: YUM), Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI), McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) or Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), gobbles them up and adds locations in every major US city.

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Contrary to one of the leading memes put forth to explain the recent Ohio electoral defeat of Issue 3, which would have made marijuana legal and taxed, this was not really a rejection of the concept itself, so much as the proposed implementation methodology. Cultivation, you see, would’ve been limited to a tiny handful of only ten pre-chosen properties and the formation of Ohioans against Marijuana Monopolies by Democratic Rep. Mike Curtin, which led the charge against this looming threat, was a clear shot across the sector’s bow when it comes to the formation of monopolistic or cartel-like market structures.

The issue of marijuana legalization is far from dead in Ohio and many analysts are chalking up a big portion of the recent down vote to skittishness at plunging into the deep end head first. For unlike other states that approved medical marijuana in advance of legalization, Ohio was attempting to quit prohibition cold turkey.

Legal marijuana is the fastest growing industry in the country right now, with leading sector analysis shop, ArcView Market Research, clearly detailing the case in report after report. ArcView’s State of Legal Marijuana Markets report is now in its third edition and indicates that, in addition to 74 percent market growth last year to around $2.7 billion, the legal marijuana market ceiling (if all states legalized) is currently just under $37 billion. According to analysts at ArcView, fourteen more states are geared up or are gearing up to legalize adult use, and at least two more states are headed toward implementing medical marijuana legislation by 2019. If only this amount of legalization or decriminalization occurs, the market would grow to around $10.8 billion, generating vast sums of tax revenue in the process.

Doubling down on this growing trend towards more sensible marijuana legislation and the taxable, multi-billion dollar industry it is rapidly fueling, is diversified construction, real estate development, and controlled environment agriculture player, Cherubim Interests (OTC: CHIT). With a footprint spanning diverse but synergistic industries, Cherubim is leveraging a unique, hybrid business model in order to maximize shareholder benefit. A model which is driven by alternative commercial, single and multifamily dwelling opportunities on the one hand, and by exploitation of the company’s exclusive worldwide license for proprietary plant cultivation technology, via its wholly-owned BudCube Cultivation Systems USA subsidiary, on the other.

BudCube’s portable, scalable cultivation system allows cultivators quick entry into the market using a logistically more efficient solution than traditional site build out and cultivation system implementations – and at a substantially lower price point to boot. Tag teamed with a real estate development and property management effort, BudCube Cultivation Systems can strike like lightening, and rapidly hit anywhere on earth that cannabis cultivation becomes legalized. Whether it is taking existing square footage and dropping in an array of BudCube’s, or leasing BudCube’s to cultivators as a drop-in, no nonsense solution for easily maintaining crop integrity, yield, and potency – Cherubim Interests is aiming to ride the crest of the green rush all the way to money town.

Investor upside is serious business for CHIT, too, with the recent issuance of a Convertible Preferred Stock Dividend to individual shareholders clearly marking the front end of what is an entire series of carefully planned initiatives designed to bolster stockholder equity. This raft of stimuli is also intended to serve as a schematic moving forward, pulling in more and more investment as Cherubim Interests accelerates into the acquisition of undervalued assets. To wit, on November 5, CHIT initiated a move to fund the acquisition of one or more income producing properties via the issuance of convertible preferred shares, with preferred shareholders receiving dividends that are tied directly to property income.

Cherubim is keeping its lips tightly sealed until negotiations have been finalized, but anticipates disclosing the location of the initial target location within weeks. CEO of CHIT, Patrick Johnson, indicated to markets that the company currently has a number of potential locales in the hopper with strong investment potential, and that the company is now quite busy with the final due diligence on a carefully vetted handful of other targets.

Exciting times for a company like CHIT, with its extensive real estate development know how spanning due diligence, acquisition and planning, as well as construction, renovation, and eventual property management. With its bedrock in handling full-spectrum, start-to-finish development programs on properties for commercial, single and multifamily, as well as mixed use, Cherubim Interests is perfectly positioned to capitalize both on the real estate market, where housing starts were up 6.5 percent in September, with an 18.3 jump in multifamily units (including apartments and condos), and the burgeoning marijuana market.

Learn more about Cherubim Interests by visiting www.cherubiminterests.com

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An estimated two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. For over 15 years, Lingo Media Corporation (OTCQB: LMDCF) (TSX-V: LM) has been targeting this sizable market with innovative learning solutions designed to help learners throughout various life stages – from the classroom to the boardroom – transcend language barriers while becoming more adept with English, the global language of business. Through its Lingo Learning subsidiary, Lingo Media provides published resources to China, the world’s largest English language learning market. Today, the company, along with its co-publishing partners, commands more than 60 percent market share in the Asian nation’s immense primary school market.

In 2007, Lingo Media paved the way for additional growth when it became one of the first companies to adopt speech recognition and analysis technologies. Since then, the company, through subsidiary ELL Technologies, has developed a broad range of stimulating, interactive products for specific purposes and clients – including academic institutions, governments and corporations. In September, Lingo Media once again demonstrated the marketability of this technology when it announced a multi-million dollar language learning software development contract in Colombia. This agreement continued the company’s rapid progress toward building a sustainable foothold in the educational markets of Latin America, which are among the most rapidly expanding on the planet.

The proliferation of mobile electronic devices in developing markets around the globe has created an unprecedented opportunity for companies with innovative learning solutions to rapidly expand their global reach. According to statistics from the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Play store, language learning apps such as Rosetta Stone (NYSE: RST), Duolingo and Memrise have amassed millions of downloads, but none of these apps offer the specialized learning solutions being marketed by Lingo Media. For this reason, Lingo Media has excelled in building a presence in its target markets.

“Learning English in an easy to use digital format is essential, especially for the military, government, corporate and academic industries,” Gali Bar-Ziv, president and chief executive officer of ELL Technologies, stated in a news release. “Through our large digital learning library, we are able to quickly and seamlessly build custom digital solutions based on the client’s needs. This further reflects our ongoing ability to gain market share and advance our position in… Latin America.”

According to a report by Ambient Insight, revenues from digital English products in Latin America will reach $260.9 million by 2018, up from just $136.2 million in 2013. Look for Lingo Media to capitalize on this performance as it continues to expand its presence in the region through the development of customized learning solutions that address pivotal market demands.

For more information on the company, visit www.lingomedia.com

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Under the SEC’s new Systems Compliance and Integrity Regulation (Regulation SCI), which became compliant effective on November 3, 2015, OTC Link ATS is now considered a higher-volume equity ATS and SCI entity. OTC Link ATS is the OTC Markets Group’s alternative trading system. It facilitates electronic trading for the markets administered by the OTC Markets Group: the OTCQX, the OTCQB and the OTC Pink. Together, these three OTC market places list over 10,000 securities and include many well-known names such as Heineken, Volkswagen, and BNP Paribas.

Regulation SCI is in response to the increasing reliance of the U.S. securities markets on information technology systems and the potential disruption that failures of these systems could cause. On September 16, 2013, options market trading was halted for approximately 20 minutes due to a systems issue with the Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA), the securities information processor for options market information that disseminates option quotation and last sale information to market data vendors. And on October 30, 2014, a network hardware failure caused a temporary shut down of the Consolidated Tape System, Consolidated Quote System, and Options Price Reporting Authority data feeds at the NYSE’s primary data center.

Regulation SCI is a far-reaching document, ranging over 700 pages, which establishes a number of mandates. It defines SCI entities taxonomically as ‘certain self-regulatory organizations (including registered clearing agencies), alternative trading systems (ATSs), plan processors, and exempt clearing agencies.’ It requires such SCI entities to establish written policies and procedures… to ensure that their systems have levels of capacity, integrity, resiliency, availability and security adequate to maintain their operational capability and promote the maintenance of fair and orderly markets. SCI entities must also involve their broker-dealer members and other SCI entities in system testing and devise and share disaster recovery plans. SCI entities are now bound to correct SCI events and to notify the SEC of such events. SCI events include, but are not limited to, systems disruptions, systems compliance issues, and systems intrusions.

SCI entities must now also share information about SCI events with other SCI entities and members. Their systems must be reviewed by objective, qualified personnel at least annually. And they must submit quarterly reports to the SEC regarding completed, ongoing, and planned material changes to their SCI systems together with records regarding all material information pertaining to those systems. These are all welcome changes that will bolster the security and resilience of the markets infrastructure. Including OTC Link ATS under the Regulation SCI purview is a timely reminder that over-the-counter markets do matter.

For more information or to view the entire OTC November Newsletter visit: http://www.otcmarkets.com/content/doc/OTCNewsletter/November2015Newsletter.html

On November 18, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a number of rules designed to enhance the operational transparency and regulatory oversight of alternative trading systems (ATSs) that trade national market system (NMS) stocks listed on national securities exchanges.

“Investors and other market participants need more and better information about how alternative trading systems work,” SEC Chair Mary Jo White said in the news release. “The proposed changes would represent a critical step forward in delivering greater transparency to investors and enhancing equity market structure.”

ATSs have been labelled ‘dark pools’ since information on prices and volume are not made public. NMS securities are exchange-listed equity securities and standardized options. A ‘national securities exchange’ is a securities exchange that has registered with the SEC under Section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. At present, there are at least 30 exchanges registered as national securities exchanges with the SEC.

National securities exchanges are subject to several mandates. They must, for example, make price and volume information public. They also set rules governing the conduct of their members and perform self-regulation. ATSs, on the other hand, are regulated as broker-dealers and so escape the strict guidelines set for exchanges. Recent scandals involving ATSs have highlighted the need for greater transparency. The New York State Attorney General has accused Barclays of misleading investors in the operation of its ATS. And in January of this year, the SEC fined UBS $14.4 million for allowing orders priced in thousandths of a dollar in its dark pool and circulating this information to a select group of clients who used this pricing to jump the queue in order fulfillment.

The SEC proposal would require an ATS that trades NMS stocks to file detailed disclosures on the newly proposed Form ATS-N about its operations and the activities of its broker-dealer operator and its affiliates. It would also make Form ATS-N disclosures publicly available on the Commission’s website.

The comment period for the newly proposed rules will be 60 days after publication in the Federal Register.

For more information visit www.sec.gov

Ever since it was founded in 1995, OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) has been blazing new trails… taking the roads less traveled. It’s driving force and co-founder Dr. Steven Tsengas is an engineer and inventor. He has been elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. That engineering expertise and open approach to new ideas has been employed, over the years, to develop OPCO’s stable of over 1,000 products. In addition, the company has another 30 or so products in the pipeline plus an intellectual property stockpile of over 160 patents. This is a company thinking ahead. It is in talks with a Japanese IT firm with the aim of incorporating wireless technology into up-and-coming products.

OurPet’s Company focuses on providing solutions such as mitigating the pathologies of aging pets. Its first product was a Big Dog Feeder that made it easier for big dogs to eat by elevating the feeding bowl. When it was developed in 1995, the idea was novel. For large dogs, eating at ground floor level is not healthy or comfortable. Their physical structure can be compromised leading to arthritis at the joints. The Big Dog Feeder has been a huge success. But over the past twenty years, the company has moved into other areas. Today its largest category of sales, which are on track to cross $23 million, is pet toys. In its 3rd Qtr 10-Q filing, the company gave a breakdown of each category as a percentage of total sales:

• Toys & Accessories – 50%
• Bowls & Feeders – 35%
• Edibles – 7%
• Waste & Odor Products – 5%
• Dog Houses & Health Products – 3%

The company has been growing at twice the rate of the industry. Since 2010, it has had an annual compounded growth rate of about 6%. In 2011, it initiated a two-pronged branding strategy. The OurPets brand is aimed at the pet specialty market, while the Pet Zone brand is designed for the mass market. This strategy has undoubtedly paid off.

The management team is ambitious. In a recent interview they stated their objective to double the size of the company. As part of that strategy, they are investing heavily in distribution and marketing infrastructure. They also plan to make the waste and odor category a more significant part of the company’s business, with their Smart Scoop product line spearheading the drive. The company’s total net revenue has steadily increased:

• 2010 – $17,091,741
• 2011 – $19,667,134
• 2012 – $20,160,751
• 2013 – $21,554,106
• 2014 – $22,770,562

The pet industry has proved to be recession resistant, since pets are dearly loved members of the family. There are an estimated 350 million pets in the U.S. and Canada. About 93 million are cats and 85 million are dogs. The average pet owner spends $1,200 per year for a cat and $1,800 per year for a dog. With OPCO’s remarkably innovative product line-up, that money will surely be spent wisely.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ourpets.com

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