Pet ownership statistics vary between sources and methodologies. Karin Brulliard and Scott Clement review the challenges and discrepancies in the numbers from several sources.
. . . a prominent survey shows a rise in pet ownership, three others suggest stability
Source: Washington Post, January 31, 2019. Link. “For me, as an academic, I’m offended by the fact that everyone is running around using numbers” that vary so much, said Andrew Rowan, a former chief executive of the Humane Society International and a longtime scholar of pet demographics. “You can’t really make public policy decisions in the absence of data.”