{"id":96523,"date":"2023-10-05T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T22:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96523"},"modified":"2023-10-05T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T22:06:14","slug":"96523","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96523","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/more-americans-own-guns-and-dogs-than-cats\/\">Why America is Still Great: More People Own Guns and Dogs Than Cats.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When something makes you smile.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest researdch,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/249740\/percentage-of-households-in-the-united-states-owning-a-firearm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about 45%<\/a>\u00a0of American households have guns. With some fluctuation. that number has been fairly steady for decades. That, of course, dependent on people actually answering honestly when a stranger tries to find out if they own guns (so the actual number is likely more than 50%).<\/p>\n<p>There are about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/advisor\/pet-insurance\/pet-ownership-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">46 million<\/a>\u00a0households with pet cats in the United States, or about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/US\/HSD410221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">37 percent<\/a>. That\u2019s a lot of murder kittehs running around. Bear with me here.<\/p>\n<p>As for man\u2019s best friend, about a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/advisor\/pet-insurance\/pet-ownership-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">65 million<\/a>\u00a0households have a dog living with them. That\u2019s about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/US\/HSD410221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">52 percent<\/a>\u00a0of the total.<\/p>\n<p>So what do I get out of this?\u00a0<a title=\"This is an affiliate ad link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/click.php?tt=ale&amp;ti=11297&amp;pri=9659&amp;pw=275597&amp;mi=16365&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwethepeopleholsters.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc,nofollow\">Gun<\/a>\u00a0owners have good taste because more Americans households own dogs than cats. I suppose cat ownership might increase when you can train cats to retrieve birds and flush pheasants, but until then\u2026.. There\u2019s nothing quite like the loyal habits of a 90-pound Lab lapdog.<\/p>\n<p>Go team dog! Oh, and guns, too.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? Team dog or team cat? (Because of course you own guns, right?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why America is Still Great: More People Own Guns and Dogs Than Cats. When something makes you smile. According to the latest researdch,\u00a0about 45%\u00a0of American households have guns. With some fluctuation. that number has been fairly steady for decades. That, of course, dependent on people actually answering honestly when a stranger tries to find out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96524,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96523\/revisions\/96524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}