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2 millions have a pet

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Approximately 54% of domestic households has at least a dog or a cat.

The data represent an increase of 9 percentage points in just four years, this is one of the main conclusions of a study by GfK published at the end of 2015, explaining that this trend is due to changes in households, as well as evidence that pets contribute to the physical and psychological well-being of the "owners". These figures show that the animals are gaining more and more space within the housing, verifying also that the vast majority of families consider them as members and essential part of their lives. Therefore, there is also another trend that stands out the most humane treatment of dogs and cats, which leads to the establishment of a much more emotional attachment and emotional than functional. As in many other countries, Portugal has recorded, including more dogs and / or cats in the household than children.
The study also finds that nearly half of the dogs are breed (48%) and that preferences go Poodle, Labrador Retriever, Pincher, German Shepherds and Portuguese Podengo. The increase is the number of these animals to live at home (53%) and the fact that the Portuguese adopt more dogs (15% versus 3% in 2011), despite being Predominately (56%).

Also in cats are found the same trends. 28% are of race and in the top 5 is Siamese, Common European, Persian, English Blue at short and Russian Blue. There has been a very sharp increase of adopted cats (25% versus 3% in 2011) and, as with dogs, these animals live mostly indoors (64%).

However, with respect to the care of dogs and cats, in both cases, the "owners" have as main areas of concern, health and nutrition. However, also consider hygiene and health confort. So, it appears that increasingly takes the "four-legged friend" to the vet mainly for vaccination (91% in the case of dogs and 72% in cats), but also for internal / external deworming. In the food grade that is lower give leftover food (-32% in dogs and 40% in cats, as compared to 2011) and to focus more dry food (76% in dogs and 69% in cats ). In both cases, the food is selected according to the preference / animal taste. Therefore, it is the power that the "owners" spend more money (60% in dogs and 61% in cats).

Finally, the GfKTrack.2Pet also presents the ranking of European countries with pets. Portugal is positioned in 12 of the ranking which is topped Russia, France, Italy, Germany and UK. Worldwide, the US emerged as the country most "pet-friendly", as they have the highest penetration pets with 65% of households owning at least one.

Source: Study GfKTrack.2PETs Portugal (Job 2015)

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