Data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey reveals that dog ownership varies greatly around the world. Where as many as seven in ten respondents said they had a dog as a pet in Mexico in a survey conducted between July 2023 and June 2024, under three in ten said the same in Sweden.In the United States, around half of respondents said they owned a dog. Americans were most likely to own a dog, followed by a cat (36 percent), a fish (7 percent), a reptile (4 percent) and a bird (4 percent). Only three percent of respondents said they owned a rodent, whether a rabbit, a hamster, guinea pig, mouse or rat.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @rebel_nomad 16 Oct
Actually many dogs here own themselves! :-)
People put collars on them so they won't be taken away, feed & pet them, while they're free to come and go!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 16 Oct
this is the way! Here in the villages you still see some stray dogs and people don't usually adopt them. In the cities they are taken to animal centers by state officials. Some are lucky enough to be adopted if they are very young.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @rebel_nomad 16 Oct
Yeah... Our adopted, very peculiar street dog has been quite an experience, when we got him he was so stressed out that I doubted he'd survive...
But I hardly see him any longer after we got tons of cat, I'm staying at the other house herding them haha!
He is happy now I think, even going for runs alongside my wife in her car, inside the compound, that is huge progress from thinking every other dog is an enemy...
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