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Pet Ecology Announces Distribution Agreement with Vet Med, L.C.


DALLAS -- Pet Ecology Brands, Inc. (PINK SHEETS:PECB) today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Vet Med, L.C. to offer Pet Ecology's Scientific Professional Brand Cat Litter to veterinarians Veterinarians and veterinary surgeons (vets) are medical professionals who operate exclusively on animals. Well-known and notable veterinarians include:
  • Wayne Allard, a U.S.
 in the Southern Regions.

Vet Med, L.C. is a unique service provider in the pharmaceutical and animal nutritional distribution industry, located in Braunfels, Texas. Vet Med focuses its product lines on veterinary professionals and is one of the few organizations that derives its revenues solely from commissions, which is highly desirable by manufacturers so to limit their fixed employee expenses, and by veterinarians, who frequently complain about major players in the animal product and pharmaceutical industry that do not meet their needs of hands-on service and insightful presentations. Currently, the company distributes generic pharmaceutical lines to the veterinarians in its service area, with over 13,000 products.

Pet Ecology Brands, Inc. (www.petecology.com) a Texas corporation, has been developing, manufacturing, and marketing unique and patented products for pets that are environmentally and technologically advanced, earth-friendly and safe, since 1996.

Pet Ecology's revolutionary patented cat litter destroys urine odor, clumps, and is biodegradable. The litter is lightweight (2.5lbs works like 17.5lbs of clay/sand based products), and is 100% flushable. It is totally safe for cats and our environment because it does not contain any sodium bentonite bentonite (bĕn`tənīt'): see clay.  or silica dust Silica dust
A type of dust from silica (crystalline quartz) which causes breathing problems in workers in the fields of mining, stone cutting, quarrying (especially granite), blasting, road and building construction industries that manufacture abrasives, and
.

It is estimated that veterinarians diagnose over 10 million cats with Urinary Tract infections urinary tract infection (UTI),
n infection in one or more of the structures that make up the urinary system. Occurs more often in women and is most commonly caused by bacteria.
 each year. Pet Ecology's Sickness Indicating Cat Litter is the only non-prescription Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease Feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) is a term that is used to cover many problems of the feline urinary tract, including stones and cystitis. The term feline urologic syndrome (FUS) is an older term which is still sometimes used for this condition.  (FLUTD FLUTD

feline lower urinary tract disease.
) indicating cat litter in the marketplace.

According to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (APPMA APPMA American Pet Products Manufacturers Association ), Americans own more than 77.7 million cats. The markets for Pet Ecology's products are large and growing. It is estimated that the market for cat litter in the U.S. was $1.7 billion in 2003, and the clumpable cat litter business is estimated to be growing at an annual rate of 14+%.
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