(Bloomberg) -- These stocks are no dogs.

With Americans spending like never before on their animalcompanions, stock watchers have been betting on big returns frompet stocks.

The Pet Passion index, a tracker created by Motif Investing thatfollows pet-related companies, has returned 19 percent over thepast year as of Thursday’s stock-market close, sprinting well aheadof the rest of the stock-market pack. The S&P 500 Index hasonly marked an 8.5 percent gain so far this year.

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