{"id":2839,"date":"2018-07-26T02:33:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2018-07-26T02:33:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:33:29","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-the-old-cats-versus-dogs-issue-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2839","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 The Old Cats Versus Dogs Issue Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The numbers don\u2019t lie\u2014or so they say. Actually, as I conduct research for this blog, I find all sorts of statistical contradictions\u2014they\u2019re usually close, but no cigar. Here\u2019s what the American Pet Products Organization people say\u2014actually, I believe this is the general consensus. There are more households with dogs than cats, but there are more cats owned in the US than dogs. I suppose that\u2019s because one or two dogs is generally enough, whereas you can\u2019t have just one cat. In fact, stats show that the average cat owner has like two and fraction of the furry critters as pets.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll bet you didn\u2019t know this: Dogs cost more to own than cats do\u2014even vet checks and surgical visits are less expensive for cats\u2014as well as boarding and grooming fees and even their toys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The numbers don\u2019t lie\u2014or so they say. Actually, as I conduct research for this blog, I find all sorts of statistical contradictions\u2014they\u2019re usually close, but no cigar. Here\u2019s what the American Pet Products Organization people say\u2014actually, I believe this is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}