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Green Pets: By The Numbers
- 39 million: the number of birds killed annually by domestic cats – in Wisconsin (The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)!
- 66 million: the number of pet cats in the United States; approximately 35% are kept exclusively indoors.
- 75 percent: the decreased likelihood that adults will develop allergies, if they grow up with two or more pets as children.
- 60 percent: the percent of pet owners who have a dog; on average owners have almost two dogs (1.7).
- 5,500: the numbers of puppies and kittens that are born every hour in the United States, compared with 415 human babies.
- 28 percent: the percent of pet owning heart patients who survived serious heart attacks, compared with only 6% of patients without pets.
- 25 percent: the percent of purebred dogs who were afflicted with serious genetic problems in 1994 (Time Magazine).
- 3-4 million:the number of homeless cats and dogs that are euthanized annually.
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