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The National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy conducted a survey over four years, 1994–1997, and cautions against the use of their survey for wider estimates: "It is not possible to use these statistics to estimate the numbers of animals entering animal shelters in the United States, or the numbers euthanized on an annual basis.
In 2024, dog and cat adoption has gone down 4 percent (or about 82,000 pups) when compared to 2023. Dogs alone have gone down 5 percent (59,000 fewer) and cat adoption has gone down 2 percent ...
Online pet adoption sites have databases, searchable by the public, of pets being housed by thousands of animal shelters and rescue groups. A black cat waiting to be adopted. Because of the superstitions surrounding black cats, they are disproportionately more common in shelters than in the general population and less likely to be adopted than ...
2024 Forbes pet adoption statistics revealed that Americans adopt about 4.1 million pets from shelters yearly. People love having animals around. And they may have therapeutic health benefits ...
The total pet expenditures can be divided into nutrition, supplies/medicines, veterinarian care, live animal purchases, and other services. The most commonly found pet in the United States, according to the 2023-2024 APPA National Pet Owners Survey, was the dog with 65.1 million U.S. households owning at least one as a pet. After that comes the ...
According to a survey from the American Pet Products Association, 65.1 million American households own at least one dog, and the global dog population is estimated to be 900 million and rising as ...
In 2011, a media article on the stray dog population by the US National Animal Interest Alliance said that there were 200 million stray dogs worldwide and that a "rabies epidemic" was causing a global public health issue. [51] In 2024, the World Health Organization reported that dog bites and scratches caused 99% of the human rabies cases, and ...
In Japan, the pet population of about 20 million was almost four times the number of children ages 4 and under as of 2022, the report also showed, citing data from the Japan Pet Food Association ...