{"id":10568,"date":"2013-01-16T01:42:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T09:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=10568"},"modified":"2013-01-16T11:24:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T19:24:03","slug":"all-cats-should-all-own-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/all-cats-should-all-own-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"All Cats Should Own Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cat-dog.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some people swear they&#8217;d never own a cat, but they think of their dogs as children. Others will only own cats, no second thoughts. What if you let the cats and dogs decide who their family member should be? Perhaps you&#8217;d find cats prefer dogs as their playmates and pets. Here are the latest figures on cats and dogs in the USA, produced by The Humane Society of the United States:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dogs\/california-dogs.html\"><strong>Dogs<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThere are approximately 78.2 million owned dogs in the United States<br \/>\n39% of U.S. households own at least one dog<br \/>\n60% own one dog<br \/>\n28% of owners own two dogs<br \/>\n12% of owners own three or more dogs<br \/>\nOn average, owners have almost two dogs (1.69 percent)<br \/>\nThe proportion of male to female dogs is even<br \/>\n21% of owned dogs were adopted from an animal shelter<br \/>\nOn average, dog owners spent $248 on veterinary visits (vaccine, well visits) annually<br \/>\n78% of owned dogs are spayed or neutered<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/veterinarian-author-loves-his-cats-more-than-his-dogs-sort-of\/\"><strong>Cats<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThere are approximately 86.4 million owned cats in the United States<br \/>\n33% of U.S. households own at least one cat<br \/>\n52% of owners own more than one cat<br \/>\nOn average, owners have two cats (2.2)<br \/>\nMore female cats are owned than male cats (80 percent vs. 65 percent respectively)<br \/>\nTwenty-one percent of owned cats were adopted from an animal shelter<br \/>\nCat owners spent an average of $219 on routine veterinary visits<br \/>\n88% of owned cats are spayed or neutered<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people swear they&#8217;d never own a cat, but they think of their dogs as children. Others will only own cats, no second thoughts. What if you let the cats and dogs decide who their family member should be? Perhaps you&#8217;d find cats prefer dogs as their playmates and pets. Here are the latest figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}