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According to a
recent Maritz Poll and American Demographics magazine, 45.3% of all
women own a dog or puppy, compared with 41% of men. Also, 26.2% of men own
cats, compared to 25.6% of women. 67% of all pet owners are 35-54 years
old.
Castrated male dogs are 75% less likely to
try to escape than intact males according to animal behaviorist Dr. John
Harkness of Mississippi State University.
Of animals 2 years or older, 80% or more
show some signs or periodontal disease, which is the most common
infectious disease in pets.
Virtually all hamsters sold today as pets
are descended from three siblings captured in the Near East in 1930.
Did you know that it is
illegal in most states (including Maryland) to let your dog run
loose? All pets, including cats must be confined to a fenced yard,
kennel, or kept on a leash.
Ferrets have been domesticated
since 4 B.C. in Europe and are still used for hunting rabbits and rats in
the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Sweden, and the
Netherlands.
When you offer a cockatiel a single grape, it is the same as offering a
120-pound person 460 grapes.
There are about 45 different
breeds of rabbit.
Cats can have more than 200,000 hairs on each square inch of their
body.
In nine months 2 fleas can produce 222,000,000,000,000 (trillion)
offspring.
According to a recent Internet study:
31% of pet-owning Americans take off a day of work to be with a sick
animal.
37% carry pictures of their pet in their wallet.
28% talk to their pets on the phone or answering machine.
27% celebrate their pets’ birthday with a party.
22% make TV viewing decisions to please their pets.
33% believe they can actually read their pets’ minds.
32% said if they were a pet they would want to belong to Oprah Winfrey,
5% would want to belong to David Letterman’s mother.
In South America, guinea pigs are often hunted or raised for meat, but
free-ranging animals are not trapped for the pet trade.
