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Of the total sample, 98.3 If you're one of percent had owned pets America's pet owners, he at some time in their lives and 93 percent had probably does. experienced the death of Pets are culturally im- a pet. bedded in the United There are generally States and are, for the most part, highly valued three reasons parents list for getting pets for their by their owners, says Dr, children. These include D. Jay Schvaneveldt, of head the Family and helping children learn learn Human Development responsibility, about life with regard to Department at Utah birth and sex, and about State University. death and illness, Schvaneveldt and Lyn-n- e Schvaneveldt explained. W. Myers, a research However, few of the pet associate in the departowners interviewed felt ment, have recently written a paper describing the death of their pet was their research on pets as a learning experience pet look kind of fuzzy, walk on four legs, and wag his members American family. h.c-bee- Dogs and cats the most own- etc. About 90 percent of the sample said they talked to their pets as humans and about 73 percent believed that their pets could "talk" back. little research has been done on the role of pets in American society, he noted. "As far as we know, we are the first to do an empirical study on pets WsH "OLIVER'S ( A Theatre ex in Downtown To Open STORY" Hew X J Prow yJ in May as members of the American family," he concluded. available, very Schvaneveldt said. "They are also soft to touch, which is especially important to children whose sense of touch is so sensitive," he added. 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State Street Orem Ph RID MR Present fte popular because they are DlDBOBS RHRILl TEll wants, iiubody and lambs were also listed by a few, the USU professor noted. Dogs and cats are "I suppose one reason important," he said world. For some, pets are a people talk to their pets is Of the more than 400 inthat a pet won't tell your child substitute, he said A recent Time terviews conducted in secrets,'' Schvaneveldt this research project, 95 said. "They give us a magazine article per cent of the subjects legitimate opportunity to estimated that 60 per cent the American reported having a pet in dote without being told of households have pets and their home by the time off." Pets play an almost that 30 per cent of those they were 11 years old. About 19 per cent had a therapeutic role, he said. have more than one, 418 North Our Btjjut distant third and fourth. probably Other reasons for jT Eric Segal's somewhat a have difficulty reproduction jn.nials to reproduction in humans. "It's kind of like, 'Yes, that's where puppies and kittens come from, but what about babies,' " he ing pets were listed as companionship, affection and love, and utility purposes such as watchdogs, waiiuitc ucigci.. with fish families rabbits, explained. Neal ac- hamsters, irj!,..; iiing strays 0' 44;0BHBM counted for most of the pets living in American Turtles, !o r Schvaneveldt collecting information for several years from junior high school and college students in Utah and Alaska concerning who owns pets, what kind of pets they have, why they own them, and how they feel about them. "Our research shows enan overwhelming dorsement of pets. They are loved and valued," the researcher noted. "And we spend the money to prove it. Some have estimated that pet lovers spend enough on their animals to feed the starving people of the Dr. Schvaneveldt reported. Despite that and the much talked about social problems created by animals, such as the diseases transmitted by have toward pets in the tons of waste general; and the death of produced, packs of strays a pet leads to stronger some roaming positive feelings for pets, neighborhoods, and the Schvaneveldt reported. cost of exterminating the Pets seem to be the most meaningful during the school years, ages 6 to 12, and also to teenagers in some cases, the professor said. noted, children generally the and, the researcher of Other findings noted that the more one talked to a pet the more on, liked pets; the longer one had owned a pet the more positive feelings one will GfTfce ACADEMV 1 373 IPBKI: r.1on.-l7i?- i. 63 7:-5:- 3 noon STOP AMD SAVE AT THE 5iSn Or 7KE HA..MIP |