#dog-ownership

#dog-ownership

Dog ownership has surged in the U.S. since the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly 60 million households now having dogs, nearly double compared to the early 1990s.

The child was rushed to the hospital and required stitches for a large cut to his face after being bitten by a dog the mother was caring for.

Dogs are so numerous in New York, indeed, that they have already become a nuisance," the journalist Charles Dawson Shanly wrote in The Atlantic in 1872. He was annoyed by "all the barking ... and there is a good deal of it." Other New Yorkers feared that the dogs roaming the streets were "deleterious to health..." Anxieties escalated to the point that "weakminded people began to look upon Ponto's kennel in the back yard as a very Pandora's box of maladies too numerous and appalling to be contemplated without terror.

Foxie's bond with her miniature lamb, Lamb Chop, showcases a unique tenderness in dogs, with many owners noting how dogs treat the toy like their own pup.

From 2001 to 2020, the estimated number of adults seen at emergency departments for dog-walking injuries increased significantly, from 7,300 to 32,300 a year, lead researcher Ridge Maxson told The Associated Press. Most patients were women (75%). Adults overall between ages 40 and 64 amounted to 47%.

"It's baffling why some dog owners feel the need to pick up their pet's waste but then discard the filled bag into the bushes. They seem to think they've absolved their responsibility, but in reality, they only swap one problem for another."