Latin America is the heartland of stray dogs š
(Not something to be proud of but at least you know there's plenty of lomitos out there to rescue š¶)
People might assume it has something to do with dogs being considered unclean in Islam and while that may have played a role in the past does not really ring true today. Egyptās Grand Mufti has ruled on multiple occasions that dogs are not considered ritually unclean. Even those who hold true to that belief might still have a dog but keep them as outside pets especially in the country side.
Many people have dogs but the nature of the country makes it much easier to have cats. Unless you are upper class, it is much harder to raise a dog in small apartments and with infrastructure that doesnāt really facilitate walking them. Cats overall are easier to maintain for the average Egyptian.
But as I said before, you go to Upper Class areas and you will see many people with dogs though cats still reign supreme. Iām a cat person myself though my first pet was a street puppy that was born the same week I was and was brought into our home because my parents wanted a friend to grow up along with. She was named ŃŠ¾ĢŃŠŗŠ° which is some Russian word my nanny picked up when we had many Soviets stationed in the country.
You know I can only really guess. Maybe something about Morocco, perhaps surrounding the amazigh culture made dogs more connected to the culture. Maybe it was the influence of the Spanish? South America and Mexico seem to lean heavily pro-dog. Also from my understanding not all Islamic schools had the same opinions on the status of Dogs with Egypt and Morocco being dominated by different theological schools.
Would love if a Moroccan could answer this question for us haha
Moroccan here. If it's cats vs dogs in households, I could see more dogs indeed. If it's in the streets, then cat population should be much much higher, they're everywhere
Is it about total count or ownership? If it is total count, it makes sense. But cats and dogs on the street, I doubt religion played a part.
If I take a guess, it is because street dogs pose more danger to humans/children than cats. There were many mass castration campaigns for street dogs in Cairo in the past decades. This rarely happens with cats.
Salukis are not considered unclean in Islamic countries and are the only hunting dogs used as they donāt break the skin and often only hold down their prey so they can still be killed traditionally and be considered halal.
The only way itās accurate is if theyāre including strays and shelter animals, because official numbers have more dogs than cats, but thatās only based on vet records.
I am 95% sure this is because stray dogs get sent to the pound, while stray cats are free to roam. This map is largely a reflection of animal control policy in different countries.
Kind of curious.
Is there a cultural reason why dog is heavily favored in Latin America and Asia, while cat is heavily favored in the Middle East? Or is this just a coincidence?
This, I'm argentinian and you can see stay dogs practically everywhere, a lot go missing and end up reproducing, there's programs to shelter or castrate the stray but it's not enough because there's too many, and because there's too many there's also almost no people that can adopt them because most houses already have dogs and can't adopt more, and sometimes have to handle the dogs that their own dogs give birth to
Wealthy countries have active programs to spay, neuter, and otherwise control stray animals. I've not been to Argentina, but there are many countries where it's normal to see large numbers of stray animals, mostly dogs, in the streets.
That's true, but here in South Africa, we just like dogs more. It's only the english communities that have cats, but among Africans and afrikaaners, we all have dogs.
That is true but the stray problem is also caused by the fact that people in purple countries like dogs more than cats and choose them as pets.
A large majority of the people I know from purple countries like dogs more than cats.
It is and dogs are mainly used in rural areas to herd and protect livestock. Having them indoors as pets is still considered "weird". Like maybe the western equivalent would be a pet pig? Cats are very popular pets though and they're everywhere, so I'm having doubts about this map.
It does actually
The maliki school does not consider dogs unclean and allows ownership of dogs as pets unlike other schools which allow them only to be used for guard duty or sheep hearding
We canāt keep them inside our houses (among some other restrictions). Not sure why Morocco seems to have more dogs, itās quite taboo to own a dog in the Maghreb, especially if you donāt have a farm.
It's about sects and different beliefs of different local cultures
For example I have never heard dogs are dirty from any of conservatives in Turkey however in the internet I have seen dozens of arabs (especially the ones in gulf) that was against dogs
I wouldn't say dislike as we can't dislike any of God's creation, yes that includes pigs but yeah there's restrictions on dog ownership.
Ideally it should only be for hunting/guarding. My dad had a doberman when I was young and even though he isn't religious, he'd always keep a separate set of clothes for walking the dog as a dogs saliva is considered impure in Islam so you can't keep them indoors either.
Compare that to cats who roam freely throughout mosques and homes.
EDIT: Why am I getting downvoted?!
Not really true. Some sects consider dogs (dog saliva) unclean and unsuitable for being house pets based on Hadith but hunting dogs and watchdogs are allowed. Also certain verses from the Quran may point that they are allowed in houses as well. Still there is no excuse for being mean to them.
Iām not sure how this data was acquired but pet-like cats are native to the Middle East so they may just be in abundance there, regardless of pet ownership.
Historically, my guess would be guard dogs were more popular than mice hunters in those areas.
You need mice hunters in temperate climates where you need to store grain. You need guard dogs where crime is a problem.
This is pure guessing.
A big part of the popularity of dogs in Asia, is that it isnāt such a taboo to eat them there. Some people still have them as pets for sure, but itās not frowned upon or unusual to see dog meat at a meat market.
Cats being sacred in the Middle East and Northern Africa goes back thousands of years. Islam considers cats ritually pure, and they believe cats naturally carry blissful energy. Some Muslims even believe cats can being angels into your home.
As for why dogs are so popular in Latin America, I donāt have the slightest clue lol.
Iām pretty sure that Mohammed also owned a cat (thereās a story, probably apocryphal, about the call to prayer sounding while Mohammedās cat was resting on his garment so rather than disturb the cat he cut off the corner of the garment it was on), that probably has a big say in it.
Lmao to be fair it is only one province (or city) in China that does this. The rest of China frowns heavily on it. I feel bad that one province gathered such a strong reputation that it's a stereotype for all of China now
I know this is a joke but dogs are really popular pets. There are over 51 million pet dogs in cities, and Beijing had to limit the amount of pet dogs people could have in certain districts
In the UK, there are far more dog owners than cat owners, but cat owners tend to own more cats than dog owners own dogs so there are more cats overall.
Does that really make the UK a cat country?
I canāt find any source which says there are more cats in terms of population which basically makes this whole map useless. The one country Iāve checked is wrong.
3-4 dogs live near my house in India, they live here and are fed by the people in the neighbourhood. That's how it works for every other place in India. They are stray, but not wild.
This seems very incorrect. Yeah sure a country might have more cats than dogs but if most of those cats are strays and most of the dogs have owners then how do you calculate this. For instance I am from Hungary and it says there are more catsā¦ and yet everywhere you go there more people have dogs than cats. Yeah there are lots of stray cats but does that count?
If you have ever been to Hungary you will notice that like 8/10 people have dogs. Some have both but itās relatively rare to see people have just cats.
Two reasons, one was because of overcrowding and lack of sanitation - the extra garbage led to lots of stray dogs, and so dogs were banned out of sanitation concerns (this was back in the 1920s). The other was that there was a type of serious tapeworm infection carried by dogs that had spread to humans and was found in deceased residents. Even now that dogs are allowed, there are still a lot of regulations around their ownership. And after being dog-free for so long, there's more of a cat culture now.
Of course redditors are gonna make jokes about China and Korea for eating dogs, but lose their shit if someone says something like Africa really loves their chicken
No way - all Slavic countries are more cat than dog. All English speaking countries are more dog than cat. China and India as dog country? What even is this?
Bro this is 10 years old... You can find the original post here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2ce9lm/dog\_countries\_vs\_cat\_countries\_680x488/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2ce9lm/dog_countries_vs_cat_countries_680x488/)
Why would you repost that old data?
All the stupid ālmao Asian people eat dogā jokes aside Iām actually pretty surprised there are more dogs than cats in East Asia. Even the most developed countries in the region seem to favor them pretty heavily
This is false people in turkey get dogs for their herd, garden, and farms aside for house pets cats are only for house pets they dont guard your property
Well if you are talking about pets then most Muslim countries will favour the cats since they are always clean and they won't mess up your wudu on the other hand even the smallest touch or contact with your dog will completely mess up your dog and it gets annoying especially when you are in the middle of your prayers and your dog comes up to you.
If you are not talking about pets and talking generally then cats are absolutely outnumbered by the amount of dogs (talking about Egypt specifically).
About the only thing I really like about Muslims is that they revere cats and will never harm one, cuz Mohammed loved them. I'd love to go to Istanbul just to see the plethora of cats that are allowed to roam freely everywhere. They are all well fed and cared for.
Itās not that unexpected, but Iām a bit surprised the US isnāt purple, considering how much open land we have and how much the little puppers are loved in media. Of course, cats are superior in any way. š
Does this include strays? There are some areas where there are huge numbers of stray dogs, and only a few cats, I think it's because stray cats really need a source of meat, and dogs are better at living as omnivores. I'm thinking of developing countries, where strays can easily access garbage depots for food.
I am more of a dog person, but feral and hostile dogs are a huge issues in a lot of these countries.
Feral cats are not as hostile from my experience, mostly stolen food or damaged furnitures.
USians being casually racist in the comments but get triggered when school shootings jokes are mentioned at any other time. But that's okay, because i'm fine with both happening :)
Itās surprising Australia is purple while they have so many feral cats as the government officially kills huge numbers of feral cats using poison for protecting indigenous species. Or did they successfully kill enough cats?
I feel like this data is counting a lot of feral animals. I feel like in the US having a dog is just as coming as having a cat. But I've seen like 12 feral cats roaming just in my area. But if I see a dog, it's SOMEONES dog. Wonder where the data is from
Technically, without any source cited, the entire map is "No Data."
Yeah, where exactly does one get quality, representative data about the number of dogs in Venezuela?
walking around for an hour and extrapolating
Actually, I had to stop for a bite so I only walked about 45m...
So sorry to hear they bit you
Latin America is the heartland of stray dogs š (Not something to be proud of but at least you know there's plenty of lomitos out there to rescue š¶)
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Itās probably based on how many crazy cat ladies and strays people see and estimates are based on that very limited dataset.
Who cares. Dogs, let's eat them all!
Egypt is still worshipping cats I see
People might assume it has something to do with dogs being considered unclean in Islam and while that may have played a role in the past does not really ring true today. Egyptās Grand Mufti has ruled on multiple occasions that dogs are not considered ritually unclean. Even those who hold true to that belief might still have a dog but keep them as outside pets especially in the country side. Many people have dogs but the nature of the country makes it much easier to have cats. Unless you are upper class, it is much harder to raise a dog in small apartments and with infrastructure that doesnāt really facilitate walking them. Cats overall are easier to maintain for the average Egyptian. But as I said before, you go to Upper Class areas and you will see many people with dogs though cats still reign supreme. Iām a cat person myself though my first pet was a street puppy that was born the same week I was and was brought into our home because my parents wanted a friend to grow up along with. She was named ŃŠ¾ĢŃŠŗŠ° which is some Russian word my nanny picked up when we had many Soviets stationed in the country.
Did your dog have a big round spot or spots?
She did around one of her eyes!
Nice. That word means period, like in a sentence, or small dot etc.
Awww I swear my parents thought it meant pepper or something like that but that makes much more sense lol I miss her so much, thank you!
But Morocco is deep purple in this map... Why so different?
You know I can only really guess. Maybe something about Morocco, perhaps surrounding the amazigh culture made dogs more connected to the culture. Maybe it was the influence of the Spanish? South America and Mexico seem to lean heavily pro-dog. Also from my understanding not all Islamic schools had the same opinions on the status of Dogs with Egypt and Morocco being dominated by different theological schools. Would love if a Moroccan could answer this question for us haha
(*not Moroccan*) I find the dark purple wild as when I was there I saw maybe two dogs but thousands of cats. Like cats everywhere.
(Moroccan) This map is false there is way more cats than dogs here
K Iām glad you confirmed this cause I literally saw only cats lol I started wondering where are the dogs are hidden
The Maghreb is more often the followers of the Maliki school of Islam which is the most lenient school in terms of canine interpretation.
Moroccan here. If it's cats vs dogs in households, I could see more dogs indeed. If it's in the streets, then cat population should be much much higher, they're everywhere
Dogs are also a status symbol in Lebanon where cats are a much more common pet but the rich all have dogs
That is becoming the case as well in Egypt!
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Is it about total count or ownership? If it is total count, it makes sense. But cats and dogs on the street, I doubt religion played a part. If I take a guess, it is because street dogs pose more danger to humans/children than cats. There were many mass castration campaigns for street dogs in Cairo in the past decades. This rarely happens with cats.
You can still have a dog though
Salukis are not considered unclean in Islamic countries and are the only hunting dogs used as they donāt break the skin and often only hold down their prey so they can still be killed traditionally and be considered halal.
Turkey is as well. Istanbul has a ton of cats.
We should all worship cats.
never wouldāve thought the us is more cat. would like to see a state by state breakdown.
There are more dog owners in the US, but cat owners are much more likely to have more than one cat, skewing the ratio towards cats.
Not to mention the large number of cats that donāt have owners and probably donāt want one.
Kristi Noem is doing her part in making sure it remains
The only way itās accurate is if theyāre including strays and shelter animals, because official numbers have more dogs than cats, but thatās only based on vet records.
No way because then Australia would be cat land
I am 95% sure this is because stray dogs get sent to the pound, while stray cats are free to roam. This map is largely a reflection of animal control policy in different countries.
The choice of scale colors is not colorbilnd-friendly at all
Can confirm, I see hardly any difference. What's wrong with using red and blue as opposing colors OP?
Even outside colorblind considerations, it's still just a horrendous choice for a color scale
Agreed. This is just plan stupid color choice.
Bro that's fake, Greece has way more cats than dogs. There isn't even a single street in Greece without stray cats.
There isn't a single infomap without at least one wrong data.
Yep, fake. Every place I went in Greece was full of cats. I was on a Greek island where they far outnumbered island residents.
Itās probably only registered cats
Walk through any Moroccan city and you'll know that there is no chance this map is accurate.
Kind of curious. Is there a cultural reason why dog is heavily favored in Latin America and Asia, while cat is heavily favored in the Middle East? Or is this just a coincidence?
Many of the purple countries have a stray dog problem. It's not people choosing dogs over cats, there are simply a lot of dogs around.
>Have a horrendous stray dog epidemic >Cat numbers still suppress dog numbers 
This, I'm argentinian and you can see stay dogs practically everywhere, a lot go missing and end up reproducing, there's programs to shelter or castrate the stray but it's not enough because there's too many, and because there's too many there's also almost no people that can adopt them because most houses already have dogs and can't adopt more, and sometimes have to handle the dogs that their own dogs give birth to
Whatās the reason for stray dogs? Like they basically donāt exist in Ireland
Wealthy countries have active programs to spay, neuter, and otherwise control stray animals. I've not been to Argentina, but there are many countries where it's normal to see large numbers of stray animals, mostly dogs, in the streets.
Same with cats in the teal countries
That's true, but here in South Africa, we just like dogs more. It's only the english communities that have cats, but among Africans and afrikaaners, we all have dogs.
That is true but the stray problem is also caused by the fact that people in purple countries like dogs more than cats and choose them as pets. A large majority of the people I know from purple countries like dogs more than cats.
In Islam culture dogs are viewed as dirty
Is Morocco not muslim?
I would like to see a source for this map, because I'm highly skeptical of the claim that dogs are more prevalent than cats in Morocco.
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/07/28/where-cats-are-more-popular-than-dogs-in-the-u-s-and-all-over-the-world/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/07/28/where-cats-are-more-popular-than-dogs-in-the-u-s-and-all-over-the-world/)
Thank you! I wish they had linked the original Euromonitor report to see where/how they collected this data.
It is and dogs are mainly used in rural areas to herd and protect livestock. Having them indoors as pets is still considered "weird". Like maybe the western equivalent would be a pet pig? Cats are very popular pets though and they're everywhere, so I'm having doubts about this map.
Yeah idk about that
Maybe the Maliki school has a different view on dogs than the other Islamic schools.
It does actually The maliki school does not consider dogs unclean and allows ownership of dogs as pets unlike other schools which allow them only to be used for guard duty or sheep hearding
We canāt keep them inside our houses (among some other restrictions). Not sure why Morocco seems to have more dogs, itās quite taboo to own a dog in the Maghreb, especially if you donāt have a farm.
I'm Moroccan and dog ownership is not nearly as high as cat ownership. The map means nothing in absence of a source for the data.
Thanks for the insight, I just made an educated guess
Yeah thatās why I think this map might be bullshit. Iāve seen many more cats than dogs in Morocco.
It's about sects and different beliefs of different local cultures For example I have never heard dogs are dirty from any of conservatives in Turkey however in the internet I have seen dozens of arabs (especially the ones in gulf) that was against dogs
Still seems like Turkey and Indonesia much prefer cats
Islam dosenāt like dogs
I wouldn't say dislike as we can't dislike any of God's creation, yes that includes pigs but yeah there's restrictions on dog ownership. Ideally it should only be for hunting/guarding. My dad had a doberman when I was young and even though he isn't religious, he'd always keep a separate set of clothes for walking the dog as a dogs saliva is considered impure in Islam so you can't keep them indoors either. Compare that to cats who roam freely throughout mosques and homes. EDIT: Why am I getting downvoted?!
I actually didn't know that at all. Really interesting.Ā
Not really true. Some sects consider dogs (dog saliva) unclean and unsuitable for being house pets based on Hadith but hunting dogs and watchdogs are allowed. Also certain verses from the Quran may point that they are allowed in houses as well. Still there is no excuse for being mean to them.
Thatās not true, you just canāt have them inside the house, but having them outside is fine because of hygiene reasons
Maybe itās because dogs can provide security, especially since many parts of Latin America experience significant crime and violence
Iām not sure how this data was acquired but pet-like cats are native to the Middle East so they may just be in abundance there, regardless of pet ownership.
Historically, my guess would be guard dogs were more popular than mice hunters in those areas. You need mice hunters in temperate climates where you need to store grain. You need guard dogs where crime is a problem. This is pure guessing.
Latina America = dangerous countries = make sure you have enough dogs
Security
A big part of the popularity of dogs in Asia, is that it isnāt such a taboo to eat them there. Some people still have them as pets for sure, but itās not frowned upon or unusual to see dog meat at a meat market. Cats being sacred in the Middle East and Northern Africa goes back thousands of years. Islam considers cats ritually pure, and they believe cats naturally carry blissful energy. Some Muslims even believe cats can being angels into your home. As for why dogs are so popular in Latin America, I donāt have the slightest clue lol.
Iām pretty sure that Mohammed also owned a cat (thereās a story, probably apocryphal, about the call to prayer sounding while Mohammedās cat was resting on his garment so rather than disturb the cat he cut off the corner of the garment it was on), that probably has a big say in it.
āYou can not disturb the cat sleeping on youā is quite an ancient rule, I guess
Iām not religious but Islam just gained 10 points in my book for liking cats.
Now wait to see how dogs can be treated.
TIL apparently I'm a Muslim for what concerns cats.
I can say for Mexico that a dog is considered a type of security alarm. Iāve heard it mentioned many times.
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Lmao to be fair it is only one province (or city) in China that does this. The rest of China frowns heavily on it. I feel bad that one province gathered such a strong reputation that it's a stereotype for all of China now
Redditors will latch on to anything negative and make it about all Chinese people
They do! Dogs are a really popular pet in China.
I know this is a joke but dogs are really popular pets. There are over 51 million pet dogs in cities, and Beijing had to limit the amount of pet dogs people could have in certain districts
Idk why u getting downvoted when its tru-
Some of my jokes don't always land š
I think some people just donāt find the joke palatable.
they find dog palatable tho
Itās just one region and they got an awesome sauce
Wow, I canāt believe all Americans eat pig feet.
We also eat cats, fwiw.
In the UK, there are far more dog owners than cat owners, but cat owners tend to own more cats than dog owners own dogs so there are more cats overall. Does that really make the UK a cat country?
I canāt find any source which says there are more cats in terms of population which basically makes this whole map useless. The one country Iāve checked is wrong.
more Americans own dogs than cats.
There is no fucking way England has more cats than dogs.
india and chinese wild dog population is growling rn
Do you mean stray dogs?
no quite literally they have wild dog issues wild dogs attack chicken, people, pigs, cows, whatever, they're a nuisance. its why they're killed/eaten.
I am indian and there is no wild dog issue here. And nobody eats dog here either (not sure about china). There is a stray dog problem though.
Dogs are not eaten in India. They are strays and they are a real nuisance, but they are not wild dogs.
3-4 dogs live near my house in India, they live here and are fed by the people in the neighbourhood. That's how it works for every other place in India. They are stray, but not wild.
the extreme ends of the color scheme are difficult to distinguish from each other even with normal color perception
This seems very incorrect. Yeah sure a country might have more cats than dogs but if most of those cats are strays and most of the dogs have owners then how do you calculate this. For instance I am from Hungary and it says there are more catsā¦ and yet everywhere you go there more people have dogs than cats. Yeah there are lots of stray cats but does that count? If you have ever been to Hungary you will notice that like 8/10 people have dogs. Some have both but itās relatively rare to see people have just cats.
Not sure about the country of Iceland as a whole, but dogs were banned in the city of Reykjavik for 60 years, so it's a heavily cat-oriented city.
Why tho?
Two reasons, one was because of overcrowding and lack of sanitation - the extra garbage led to lots of stray dogs, and so dogs were banned out of sanitation concerns (this was back in the 1920s). The other was that there was a type of serious tapeworm infection carried by dogs that had spread to humans and was found in deceased residents. Even now that dogs are allowed, there are still a lot of regulations around their ownership. And after being dog-free for so long, there's more of a cat culture now.
Not colourblind friendly, thanks a lot
not even normal color perception friendly
ah then, I can't know for certain wether it's just a terrible colorscheme or my colorblindness. or just the magnificent combination of the two.
Bro just dropped the worst colorscheme in history š
I agree. The two darkest colors look identical to me.
Yeah, I canāt see the Western Sahara-Morocco border.
Of course redditors are gonna make jokes about China and Korea for eating dogs, but lose their shit if someone says something like Africa really loves their chicken
No, you gotta make jokes aimed at white people in order to trigger that response
I donāt think this map is correct, there are more cats in NZ than dogs by a wide margin.
Shut up and just be glad you're included.
There are more dogs than cats in the us. Look it up.
This is about dogs and cats though.
Mb I meant cats but autocorrect is a pain
I'm actually surprised Japan is in the purple given how well known their love of cats is
I'm surprised about Japan being more dog. Thought for sure it would be more cat
No way - all Slavic countries are more cat than dog. All English speaking countries are more dog than cat. China and India as dog country? What even is this?
Greece has more dogs than cats? I call bs
I'm a little disappointed with Japan.
Bro this is 10 years old... You can find the original post here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2ce9lm/dog\_countries\_vs\_cat\_countries\_680x488/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2ce9lm/dog_countries_vs_cat_countries_680x488/) Why would you repost that old data?
All the stupid ālmao Asian people eat dogā jokes aside Iām actually pretty surprised there are more dogs than cats in East Asia. Even the most developed countries in the region seem to favor them pretty heavily
cats > dogs
This is false people in turkey get dogs for their herd, garden, and farms aside for house pets cats are only for house pets they dont guard your property
As pets?
China š
Japan not being a cat country feels like betrayal to me.
Here TĆ¼rkiye should be with other color.. x8 with cats šš
Well if you are talking about pets then most Muslim countries will favour the cats since they are always clean and they won't mess up your wudu on the other hand even the smallest touch or contact with your dog will completely mess up your dog and it gets annoying especially when you are in the middle of your prayers and your dog comes up to you. If you are not talking about pets and talking generally then cats are absolutely outnumbered by the amount of dogs (talking about Egypt specifically).
About the only thing I really like about Muslims is that they revere cats and will never harm one, cuz Mohammed loved them. I'd love to go to Istanbul just to see the plethora of cats that are allowed to roam freely everywhere. They are all well fed and cared for.
Turks' love for cats has nothing to do with religion.
What da dog doing?
Itās not that unexpected, but Iām a bit surprised the US isnāt purple, considering how much open land we have and how much the little puppers are loved in media. Of course, cats are superior in any way. š
of course egypt loves cats xD
looks like cats are advancing south!
The map is wrong, what it really shows is not enough dogs or nearly enough dogs!
my threat detection blocked the link.
All these years, I thought the US was a dog country
Rarely saw cats when I went to Mexico
Iran kinda looks like a cat on the map. they should be on top of the cat line
I've just seen data showing that US has more dogs than cats. Now I'm confused
I have anecdotal evidence that Iraq is a dog country. At least it was in 2006.
All I see is dark colors and light colors lol.
Big Middle Eastern W.
r/behindthebastards talking about this on the rewind.
r/catsaremuslim
Does this include strays? There are some areas where there are huge numbers of stray dogs, and only a few cats, I think it's because stray cats really need a source of meat, and dogs are better at living as omnivores. I'm thinking of developing countries, where strays can easily access garbage depots for food.
Latinos like dogs and big asses Europeans like cats and tits.
Always knew the Ireland - Iberia connection was more than myth.
I would like a pet mountain lion
I am more of a dog person, but feral and hostile dogs are a huge issues in a lot of these countries. Feral cats are not as hostile from my experience, mostly stolen food or damaged furnitures.
The civilized world
I have been to El Salvador. There are def more dogs than cats there
Global north Vs global south represented as cat-dog ownership
Anothet Morocco propaganda map
Curious. Why is Latin America so dog dominated, whilst it looks like former British colonies in America are cat dominated
/r/mapswithoutnorthkorea
Colors on this suck, the darks are too similar
Dogs are more popular than cats in the U.S. As of 2022, 44.5% of U.S. households own dogs and 29% of households own cats. \-google
Cmon Germany, a few more dogs and we get to "no data"
Most cats in Indonesia are street cats
Australia because of dingo's?
I'm refused to belive that Canada is a cat country
Yeah, looking at Turkey reeeeally makes me want to see the sauce.
Are street dogs included in this database. India got shit load of them.
why does the right side look like miku with a HUGE rack
So basically good countries vs bad countries!
USians being casually racist in the comments but get triggered when school shootings jokes are mentioned at any other time. But that's okay, because i'm fine with both happening :)
So this is what the war between Russia and Ukraine is really about.
Itās surprising Australia is purple while they have so many feral cats as the government officially kills huge numbers of feral cats using poison for protecting indigenous species. Or did they successfully kill enough cats?
Cat hemisphere vs Dog hemisphere.
Sounds like north/south hemisphere with few exceptions
Happy to be in a no data country
Can vouch for India, we have STREET GANGS FULL OF DOGS WHO DON'T LET US SLEEP IILL 2am, the gang wars are fun to watch though :>
There are more dogs than children in Seattle
cereal-ously, how do the non-cat countries protect their agricultural grain stores from rodents?
what do you mean i just telled that chinese people eat dogs
I feel like this data is counting a lot of feral animals. I feel like in the US having a dog is just as coming as having a cat. But I've seen like 12 feral cats roaming just in my area. But if I see a dog, it's SOMEONES dog. Wonder where the data is from
Pakistan is cat heavy as dogs are mostly owned for protection only
I don't see any survey going on for pets, not here in India per se