US EditionWOLF: How Many Pets Have You Had in Your Lifetime?
- The author has owned 23 pets over their lifetime, including cats, dogs, horses, and various other animals, as of 2025.
- This extensive pet ownership follows an early start with a long-lived cat named Dilly and continued after the author bought their first house.
- Current pets include four cats and one dog, and colleagues at Carpenter Media report owning mostly six-to-eight pets, with some owning many more.
- The author noted, “Do seahorses count as pets?” and shared data that average Canadian pet ownership is six-to-eight pets during a lifetime.
- The author emphasizes that pets are family members, often live about 10 years, and that losing them causes profound grief and a desire for long lifespans.
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Vancouver Island Free Daily
WOLF: How many pets have you had in your lifetime?
COLUMN: Our cats, pooches and more should definitely live longer
An international team of scientists from the University of Bath, England, identified biological factors that could explain why cats tend to live longer than dogs. The research, published in Scientific Reports, revealed that the higher longevity of cats is linked to relatively larger brains and more complex immune systems, aspects that also influence the life expectancy of other mammals. Researchers analyzed evolutionary differences between 46 ma…
Features of the brain and immune system explain how longevity is in mammals, according to researchers from the University of Bath One of the questions of many people who have pets is: why do cats usually live more than dogs? New research showed that the largest length of these mammals is related to larger brains and more complex immunological systems, which could explain why dogs live, on average, for about 12 years, while cats come to live up t…
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