Shopping centers, along with cafes and restaurants, have become the friendliest public places towards guests with animals.
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Only 28% of capital residents believe that employees of retail real estate properties should be more friendly to visitors with pets. Operators of public transport (36% of respondents advise them to be friendlier), taxis (39%) and hotels (47%) turned out to be less friendly to four-legged owners – these are the results of an ADG group survey on the attitude of Muscovites towards pets, conducted on International Cat Day.
Every fifth Muscovite (17%) today goes to shopping centers with their pets. At the same time, half of the city’s residents (56%) do not take their pets to public places, and only 15% of respondents believe that there are enough places in the city where you can bring your pets. Every tenth Muscovite (12%) noted that there have been more such places recently.
Half of Muscovites who own pets today have cats (52%), a third (33%) have dogs, every tenth Muscovite (8%) has rodents, every twentieth resident of the capital (5%) has fish, 3% are birds. Most often, Muscovites buy pets (42%) from breeders, pick up stray animals on the street (24%), and adopt them from friends and acquaintances (16%). Only 5% of respondents said they adopted a pet from a shelter.
The majority of Muscovites (62%) spend from 1,000 to 5,000 rubles on pets every month, 17% – less than 1,000 rubles, 15% – more than 5,000 rubles, 6% – more than 10,000 rubles. Three quarters of survey participants (74%) also said that they had obtained a veterinary passport for their pets. Another 83% take them to the vet regularly. Annual expenses for a veterinarian for a third of Muscovites (30%) range from 1,000 to 5,000 rubles, for every fifth Muscovite (20%) – more than 5,000 rubles, for 17% – more than 10,000 rubles, for 16% – less than a thousand rubles.
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