Wyoming Ranks 10th for Pet Ownership [POLL]
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) recently released its U.S. Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook, which revealed that Wyoming ranks 10th for pet ownership with 61.8 percent of households owning a pet.
The top 10 pet-owning states are:
- Vermont with 70.8 percent pet owners
- New Mexico with 67.6 percent pet owners
- South Dakota with 65.6 percent pet owners
- Oregon with 63.6 percent pet owners
- Maine with 62.9 percent pet owners
- Washington with 62.7 percent pet owners
- Arkansas with 62.4 percent pet owners
- West Virginia with 62.1 percent pet owners
- Idaho with 62 percent pet owners
- Wyoming with 61.8 percent pet owners
The 10 states with the lowest percentage of pet-owning households are:
- Rhode Island with 53 percent pet owners
- Minnesota with 53 percent pet owners
- California with 52.9 percent pet owners
- Maryland with 52.3 percent pet owners
- Illinois with 51.8 percent pet owners
- Nebraska with 51.3 percent pet owners
- Utah with 51.2 percent pet owners
- New Jersey with 50.7 percent pet owners
- New York with 50.6 percent pet owners
- Massachusetts with 50.4 percent pet owners
- District of Columbia with 21.9 percent pet owners