Happily, Dogs and Cats Are No Worse Than Before

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Polls often show people complaining that standards of human behavior have been in decline. This helps explain why pets are so popular: Nobody ever says dogs and cats are more badly behaved nowadays than in earlier generations. Compared to humans, then, other species seem more congenial than ever. Setting the issue in this context, we needn’t be surprised to learn from a Maritz Marketing Research survey that a majority of Americans (56 percent) own a dog or cat.

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