Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by Ikuko Shimizu. Hello Kitty is known world wide and sells products such as dolls, stickers, cards, clothes and bags.

Hello Kitty is a white, female cat with a red bow and no mouth that lives in London, this makes her cute and appealing to young girls who possibly live or adore London.

Cats are the second most popular pet in the United Kingdom, this may be one of the reasons why 'Hello Kitty' is so popular. In 2008 the main reasons people kept cats as pets were for:
Companionship: 27%
Love: 31%
Easy maintainance: 7%
Gets on with other species: 3%

Here are the statistics of the population of pets in the United Kingdom that I found here
Dog: 23% (6.0 million households)
Cat: 20% ( 5.2 million households)
Indoor Fish: 10 % (2.6 million households)
Outdoor Fish: 8% (2.1 million households)
Rabbits: 2.8% (0.7 million households)
Indoor Birds: 1.8% (0.5 million households)
Guinea Pigs: 1.3% (0.3 million households)
Hamster: 1.3% (0.3 million households)
Domestic Fowl: 0.8% (0.21 million households)
Horses/Ponies: 0.3% (0.16 million households)
Tortoises/turtles: 0.3% (0.16 million households)
Gerbils: 0.5% (0.13 million households)
Snakes: 0.4% (0.10 million households)
Lizards: 0.4% (0.10 million households)
Rats: 0.3% (0.08 million households)