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Friday Fun Poll: Furry, Finned, Feathered, and Scaly Friends

Homes.com visitors sure love their furry friends! Perhaps we should say that they love their furry, feathery, finned, and scaled friends? That’s because we learned from one of our Friday Fun polls that people who visit Homes.com really love their pets – and many wanted to tell us about their unusual animals: chinchillas, iguanas, snakes, ferrets, hedgehogs, and even a lion!

Our team is always sharing stories about our pets, so we wondered about you and your pets. Do you even want to own a pet or pets? If you do, do you prefer cats or dogs? Do you love all animals?

We wondered if their were any great pet stories about how they adjust to a new home? What about moving with pets? (Get some tips on moving with your furry friends here.) Do you find yourself making decisions about a home based on how well it will accommodate your pets? When you look at places you’d like to live, do you check to see how close a dog park is? Do you look to see if it’s nearby a veterinarian or animal care facility?

For our Friday Fun poll, we decided to ask about the age old question: Are you a dog person or cat person? Turns out that, of the people who answered our poll, 59% prefer dogs while 15% prefer cats. Almost a quarter (23%) don’t want any pets at all. And then there are the three percent who prefer many other types of pets such as horses, rodents, ducks, chicken, birds, rabbits, fish, reptiles, and snakes. Among those who choose another animal as their favorite, the top three favorites were horse, indoor birds, or reptiles and snakes. See the chart below for all the different kinds of pets people mentioned in our poll.

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We also loved hearing about your pets names: Sparky, Bluebell, Max, Tigger, Butch, Trooper, Ragamuffin, Cooper, and Luvshaq. Some folks are lucky to have had pets for a long time such as the Homes.com visitor with a 23 year old cat or the one with a 14 year old dog – amazing. Of course, the record for number of pets among our respondents: four dogs and seven cats!

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Do you want to cast your vote in the debate: cat person, dog person, other, or none at all? Check out our poll!

Once again, from the entire research team here at Homes.com, thank you for sharing a little bit about yourself with us!

P.S. – Our team wanted to share their favorite funny pet gifs and videos:

Dogs making sandwiches
Dog fetch fails
Barkley’s New Boots
Cats knocking things over
Maru, the funniest cat

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