In a new article “How Religion Predicts Pet Ownership in the United States” published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, it reveals that over 60 percent of Americans have some sort of family pet.
Among Americans who said they own a pet, nearly three-quarters (74.9%) said they had a dog in 2018. Fewer than half (40.3 %) identified as cat owners.
Evangelicals and Catholics are more likely to have dogs than are mainline Christians. Mainliners are more likely than evangelicals and black Protestants to own cats. Jews prefer dogs to cats. Jewish families are also more likely than other traditions to own a small mammal or a bird.
Source: religionnews.com
