Behind the Headlines

This turned up in my e-mail at The Evening News today:

A new survey of dog owners across the U.S. has found that more than one in three dog owners said that if they had to choose between never having another dog or never having another boyfriend/girlfriend again, they would choose the latter.

More than half (57.8%) said that if their dog did not like someone they were dating, they would not see that person again.

“Dogs aren’t just pets anymore,” says Lisa Woody, President of FunStuffForDogs.com, an online retailer that conducted the survey. “They’re part of the family. We wanted to find out just how much dogs mean to their people in today’s world, so we asked.”

Nearly half (45.3%) of those surveyed would give up 10 percent of their salary in exchange for being able to take their dogs to work.