Dogs Trust says<\/a> 95% of dog owners believe having a dog is good for their mental health, and 80% describe their dog as their best friend.<\/p>\nThose are not merely ownership numbers. They describe attachment in unusually direct language, which is exactly why the UK belongs near the top of any serious dog-loving shortlist.<\/p>\n
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There is no perfect way to measure how much a country loves dogs, but ownership data and overall dog numbers tell a pretty clear story. A Statista Consumer Insights survey summarized by Voronoi found especially high household dog ownership in Mexico, Brazil, India, the United States, and Great Britain, based on fieldwork conducted between July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[563,8780,3956,8772,8774,3488,8769,8770,889,1401,2876,69,8773,56,417,2307,4543,5514,7670,1142,6685,1240,8779,8775,67,115,66,4379,2866,8778,7006,212,1078,8776,8781,2884,1343,5780,8777,557,8771],"class_list":["post-7424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pets-news","tag-among","tag-appa","tag-biggest","tag-biggest-dog","tag-brazil","tag-britain","tag-countries","tag-countries-world","tag-country","tag-credit","tag-data","tag-dog","tag-dog-lovers","tag-dogs","tag-great","tag-homes","tag-household","tag-households","tag-india","tag-lovers","tag-mexico","tag-million","tag-numbers","tag-ownership","tag-pe-ts-fun","tag-pets","tag-pets-news","tag-population","tag-report","tag-respondents","tag-scale","tag-shutterstock","tag-states","tag-statista","tag-summary","tag-survey","tag-total","tag-united","tag-voronoi","tag-world","tag-world-biggest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pe-ts.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}