It is good that you mention this. A very good portion of men today are pet cucks. These are men who start dating women who own pets prior to when they meet. It's more common for single women to own pets than single men. It's very difficult in post 2010 times to date a woman 25+ who doesn't own a pet.
In the United States, Millennials were the generation that changed how pet ownership is done. Prior to the Millennials becoming adults in the 2000s, pet ownership was something that was typically reserved for people who were married and owned a home together. When the collective of Millennials were reaching adulthood in the 2000s, they decided they didn't want to wait for marriage to get pets.
When I arrived in Dallas in the early 2010s and started using online dating to meet women, I was shocked at how many pet owning early Millennial single women I was seeing on the dating websites (this was before Tinder launched). Initially, I thought this was something specific to dating website users. I thought dating website users might have been overrepresented single women who owned pets. That might have been true then but I think it was a sign that single women were getting pets in large numbers.
Millennial single women have been more concerned about getting pets than getting boyfriends or husbands. It's getting less common for people to now wait until they live together or get married to have a pet.
Fifty-seven percent of participants love their furry friends more than their siblings. An astonishing 50 percent admitted the same about their moms.
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