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Show Male Dogs Outnumber Females Two to One Male dogs in America's homes outnumber females practically two to one, end the averejc ee of all dogs is just about four and one-half one-half years, it is indicated in a survey sur-vey of 868 representative homes made public by the Gaines Dog Research Center, New York City. The exact percentage of males in the U. S. dog population, as pointed up by the survey, is 63.6, and the average age 4.4 years. Another interesting fact brought to light by the survey, which was undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining as-certaining just how well the nation's na-tion's dogs are faring under wartime war-time conditions, was that there are 1.22 dogs to the average U. S. dog-owning dog-owning home. On an average rural farm families, of course, own more dogs than urban families. Farm families feed their dogs on an average of 2.3 times daily, as compared with 1.7 times a day they are fed in urban homes. Eighty-two and three-tenths per cent of the families buy their dog food from grocery stores, while an additional 14.4 per cent of home-makers home-makers say they purchase it at feed stores. The survey also revealed that when a feeding problem is encountered encoun-tered the veterinarian is the one most often consulted. |