Every Dog Has His Day

It’s a doggy nation, and getting doggier. As you can see from the chart below, which draws on a new Gallup poll, a large majority of Americans see dogs as superior to cats in the role of house pet. Tellingly, respondents whose household includes a dog and a cat were in the pro-canine camp by 75 percent to 18 percent. Even in cat-only households, 35 percent of respondents said dogs are the better pets. As for neutral observers, people whose homes have neither dog nor cat chose the former over the latter by 72 percent to 24 percent.