Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Pets & their People explores the long, strange history of human-animal companionship

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Philip Howell, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge

Pets play an important role in many people’s lives. In the UK, six out of ten households have at least one pet, dogs being our most common companions (assuming we don’t count fish individually). But it isn’t easy to be precise.

The 2025 figure of 13.5 million pet dogs has recently been bumped up to correct for a significant undercounting in previous UK estimates. This compares with around

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