I have to say the article reads rather unscientific to me. Might be the journalist's interpretation, but if even half the quotes are correct I'd have to say I'm not convinced that the researchers know what they are talking about. Some of the utterances sound rather unscientific.
I had a parakeet as a kid and I dislike birds extremely. I more or less lived my teen years in a Golden Retriever person's house (came home to do homework and to sleep, rest of the time I spent with her and her 16 Goldens, helping around the place). I always thought I'd be a dog breeder, but then she up and died on me before I finished college.
All the while, I always wanted cats. I finally have them and just as there are needy dogs and independent dogs, there are needy cats and independent cats.
These survey studies need to be very closely examined, because self-reported results are very rarely reflective of reality. This one makes all my 'oh, really?' antennae wiggly wildly. :)
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I had a parakeet as a kid and I dislike birds extremely. I more or less lived my teen years in a Golden Retriever person's house (came home to do homework and to sleep, rest of the time I spent with her and her 16 Goldens, helping around the place). I always thought I'd be a dog breeder, but then she up and died on me before I finished college.
All the while, I always wanted cats. I finally have them and just as there are needy dogs and independent dogs, there are needy cats and independent cats.
These survey studies need to be very closely examined, because self-reported results are very rarely reflective of reality. This one makes all my 'oh, really?' antennae wiggly wildly. :)