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Yuppie owners making pets go organic, too

You’re on a diet, too, Fido!

Pet owners on health kicks are more likely to have their furry friends eat the same way — and they’re dropping big bucks on organic and vitamin-infused pet chow.

Humans who discover diet fads often force them on their pets, whom they see as “furry, winged and finny extensions of their family,” said Bob Vetere of the American Pet Products Association.”

Pet owners are buying more age-specific, breed-specific, vitamin-infused or additive-enhanced foods than last year, Vetere said.

Some Big Apple pet owners spring for “small batch” and “organic” pet chow.

Ashley, a clerk at the Park Slope, Brooklyn, shop Paws in Paradise, said, “We have a lot of people come in and say, ‘I’m going running!’ and they’re in workout clothes. Then they buy organic [dog food]. They want their dog to be healthy, too.”

Pet owners often spring for the $50 dog chow Blue Buffalo, as well as Greenies, a doggie dental-care snack, she said.

Matt Grimsey, 29, who was shopping at Petropolis in the Financial District, said, “My New Year’s resolution was to eat more healthy, so I thought, let me do the same thing for my dog.”

American pet owners spent an all-time high of $55.7 billion on their pets last year, experts said. That figure will likely spike to $60 billion this year.