A survey of 506 U.S. dog owners about dog walking and dog-friendly neighborhoods.

1. What type of pets, if any, do you own?
51%
38%
32%
9%
6%
4%
2%
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Dog
Cat
I do not own any pets
Fish
Bird
Reptile
Other
Sample Size: 1,000 (All Respondents)

2. How many dogs do you have?
63%
25%
6%
4%
2%
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
1
2
3
4
5 or more
Sample Size: 506 (51% of Respondents)

3. How would you characterize how often your dog(s) are walked?
26%
72%
2%
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Too little
Just the right amount
Too much
Sample Size: 506 (51% of Respondents)

4. How often does someone take your dog(s) for a walk?
18%
28%
16%
12%
12%
14%
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Multiple times a day
Every day
Every few days
Weekly
Less often than once a week
Never
Sample Size: 506 (51% of Respondents)

5. Where is your dog walked?
88%
24%
12%
7%
4%
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Your neighborhood
Dog parks
Other parks
Near your work
Other
Sample Size: 435 (44% of Respondents)

6. Where is your dog walked?
Which of the following best describes your current employment status?
Employed full-
time
Employed
part-time
Owner,
Partner in a
business
Homemaker Retired Not working/
currently on
disability
(%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)
Your neighborhood 87 85 87 80 93 ⇑ 100
Near your work ⇑ 13 9 20 2 ⇓ 0 3
Dog parks ⇑ 31 ⇑ 52 27 17 ⇓ 2 ⇓ 3
Other parks 13 15 7 7 5 9
Other ⇓ 2 0 7 ⇑ 12 ⇑ 9 0
Base n=204 n=33 n=15 n=41 n=55 n=32
Sample Size: 435 (44% of Respondents)

7. How often does walking the dog first involve going for a drive?
31%
24%
30%
8%
6%
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Always
Sample Size: 435 (44% of Respondents)

8. How often does walking the dog first involve going for a drive?
Which of the following groups describes your current age?
18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+
(%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)
[Never + Rarely] 58 ⇓ 37 ⇓ 44 64 66 ⇑ 75
Never 32 ⇓ 16 23 ⇑ 41 29 ⇑ 48
Rarely 26 21 21 23 ⇑ 36 27
Sometimes 35 35 30 26 24 21
Often 4 13 ⇑ 15 9 7 4
Always 4 ⇑ 16 11 ⇓ 1 3 ⇓ 0
[Often + Always] ⇓ 7 ⇑ 28 ⇑ 26 10 10 ⇓ 4
Base n=57 n=95 n=107 n=70 n=58 n=48
Sample Size: 435 (44% of Respondents)

9. How often does walking the dog first involve going for a drive?
Region
Northeast Midwest South West
(%) (%) (%) (%)
[Never + Rarely] 53 57 60 ⇓ 41
Never 25 35 34 ⇓ 18
Rarely 28 22 25 23
Sometimes 33 24 27 36
Often 9 9 8 13
Always 5 10 6 10
[Often + Always] 14 18 14 23
Base n=64 n=94 n=173 n=104
Sample Size: 435 (44% of Respondents)

10. How would you rate the dog friendliness of each of the following?
3
3
2
14
20
2
5
4
12
15
30
32
33
35
29
31
34
34
22
17
33
27
27
18
19
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Your neighborhood
Your town or city
Your county
Area near your work
Your work
Terrible Poor Acceptable Good Excellent
Sample Size: 435 (44% of Respondents)

11. How would you rate the dog friendliness of each of the following?
31
34
34
22
17
33
27
27
18
19
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Your neighborhood
Your town or city
Your county
Area near your work
Your work
Good Excellent
Sample Size: 435 (44% of Respondents)

12. Tell us a little bit about the experience of walking your dog(s).

13. Tell us a little bit about the experience of walking your dog(s).
"She knows the word walk and what it means. I have a trailer park in back of where I live. We used to walk her
through the trailer park with no leash and let her run around. Now they have people living back there and my
dog doesn't do well around other people, so her walks have pretty much stopped."
"I enjoy when I have time to walk my dogs. We normally walk the bike path (if it's not flooded) which is
beautiful during the spring/fall months. My dogs absolutely love to get out and get the fresh air. And I get to
center myself on the walk. It's a great way to relieve stress and unwind from a stressful week."
"My dog was a rescue and we adopted him because the previous owner could not handle his mean-ness.
Initially we had to walk to walk down alleys to avoid people and other dogs. We are now able to walk around
the park and sidewalks encountering people but not too good still with other dogs."
"It is a bit tough walking all three of them at the same time. I often need someone else to help me walk them.
We generally walk in the neighborhood because my dogs have been attacked at the dog park. They like the
neighborhood because it's quiet and at night its mostly just us out."
"They are so excited when we get the leashes out. Hopping around, tails wagging. We get on our way and
they get the first 10 minutes to sniff everything and anything they want. Then after they have had the 'sniff'
time we then go into a 'heel' walk so that both them and myself can enjoy the walk without them pulling."
"I have four dogs, one is deaf and doesn't go outside because she is scared of a leash. The other is very old and
doesn't want to walk. The other two are large and can't be walked together so it makes walking dogs hard.
They don't like to be left behind if the other goes so usually neither of them get walked."
"We usually walk our dog, pepper, around the neighbor for 10-20 minutes a day sometimes longer on a nice
day, for the most part its a good experience though a lot of people take there dogs out without leashes in our
area and my dog is so skittish that it comes of aggressive and people get upset when I tell them they need to
put there dogs on a leash and stay back from my dog because she gets scared."

14. Methodology
This online survey had 1,000 respondents. It was fielded from February 15 to February
16, 2019.
The results presented in this report were weighted by the following variables:
• What is your gender?
• Which of the following groups describes your current age?
• Are you of Hispanic, Spanish or Latino descent?
• Which of the following best describes your ethnicity?
• What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed?

15. Crosstab Methodology
Crosstab Table Notes:
• Only crosstab tables with significant differences of at least 10 percentage points are
included here.
• If the difference is higher at a statistically significant level, the cell is marked with
the up - arrow symbol ⇑. If it is lower, the down-arrow symbol ⇓ is used.
• Columns with fewer than 30 responses (i.e. degrees of freedom) are ignored for
statistical significance comparisons.
• Crosstabs with no significant difference greater than 10 percentage points are not
presented.
• To fit onto a single slide, some crosstabs have had columns without differences
omitted. See the spreadsheet for the full crosstabs.
• Crosstabs show only unweighted results.
• See the accompanying spreadsheet for all tables.

16. Researchscape International
Researchscape International is a market-research consultancy
specializing in custom surveys. For questions about this or other
research, please contact us at +1-888-983-1675 x1 or visit our
website, http://www.researchscape.com/.