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Readers’ Choice: Top 10 Pets+ Digital Stories In June 2026

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June was a lighter month for major pet industry news, and our top 10 petsplusmag.com stories reflect that — reader-voice and practical-advice digital exclusives led the pack.

A retailer’s candid take on supply-chain frustration topped the list, followed by checkout tips stores can use right away, gripes about trade-show overload, and other unfiltered opinions from indies. Even the employee-complaints roundup held its own, rounding out a month in which readers gravitated toward stories from their industry peers.

Also on the list: our ever-popular trade-show calendar, Sandy Moore’s column on how regulated pet supply aids conservation, and Pete Scott’s take on intentional pet spending — plus a couple of press releases.

10 Most Read Stories on petsplusmag.com

  1. Don’t Ask Us to Perform Like Amazon While Supplying Us Like a Rural Outpost
  2. These 5 Pet Products Sell Best at the Checkout Counter
  3. Too Many Trade Shows Crammed Into a Couple of Months!
  4. 90% of Pet Indies Would Disagree With These 10 Comments
  5. 2026 Pet Industry Events, Trade Shows & Conferences
  6. Pet Parents Aren’t Spending Less — They’re Spending Smarter
  7. How a Regulated Pet Supply Chain Supports Global Conservation Efforts
  8. Weruva Announces Executive Leadership Evolution
  9. Open Farm Now Available in 1,700 PetSmart Stores
  10. 18 of the Weirdest Employee Complaints in Indie Pet

Missed one of these the first time around? There’s no better moment than now to catch up on what your fellow readers were talking about this month.