Owning a pet is expensive at the moment. we are having to increase prices every week. checking every day because you just don t know. it could be twice a week but at least once a week, once a fortnight you will have to increase the prices by £2, £3. whereas before, it might have been iop, 20p. it s a steep incline, now. the price of pets and pet related products and services is up 16% year on year in april according to the office for national statistics. it s notjust pets where prices continue rising fast. despite a moderation in the headline uk rate of inflation in april, britain still has the fastest rate of price increases of any g7 country. but what s more worrying is that we also have the worst core inflation among this group, at 6.8% here in april.