Over the final week or so, an internet ballot requested about your pets: are you canine folks, cat folks, some-other-animal folks, or individuals who don’t need pets
Over the final week or so, an internet ballot requested about your perspective to pets: are you canine folks, cat folks, some-other-animal folks, or individuals who don’t need pets?
About three-quarters of you, it seems, have or need some form of animal in your life, with canine folks being the most important group:
Is this a break from politics? Well, because it seems, no, or not utterly.
One of the endlessly fascinating issues our polling system lets us do is cross-reference polls, and appears at questions like whether or not people who find themselves open to getting a kitten are extra, or much less, additionally open to getting a tattoo, or to vote for one political social gathering or one other.
Men usually tend to be canine folks, and girls usually tend to be cat folks. Men and girls are kind of equally open to having pets, basically:
Starting at 50 or 60 or so, individuals are much less fascinated about pet possession:
PCs are more than likely to be canine folks, and New Democrats more than likely to be cat folks:
Dog individuals are extra more likely to have a really unfavourable view of Justin Trudeau, and cat individuals are extra more likely to have a really unfavourable view of Pierre Poilievre:
On the query of Canada and the monarchy, cat folks have been extra more likely to need to hold it, and canine folks extra more likely to need a republic:
Dog individuals are extra more likely to need looser gun management legal guidelines …
… extra more likely to have largely constructive reminiscences of phys.ed. class …
… and extra more likely to oppose the Emergencies Act.
Interestingly, there isn’t a actual correlation to attitudes to working from home, which is stunning, provided that one of many perks of working from home is spending extra time with pets:
Next, we are able to see 5 totally different polls in which there’s a transparent connection between openness to pet possession and openness to one thing involving the physique that includes a steadiness between pleasure and danger. Consistently, we see that individuals who select the extra cautious choice in any given case are much less open to pet possession basically.