How many dogs are there in the US? According to a pet owners survey, there were approximately 89.7 million dogs owned in the United States in 2017. This is an increase of over 20 million since the beginning of the survey period in 2000, when around 68 million dogs were owned in the United States.

Why has this figure increased?

The resident population of the United States has also increased significantly within this time period. It is, therefore, no surprise that the number of dogs owned in U.S. households has also increased, especially when considering that the household penetration rate for dog-ownership reached almost 50 percent in recent years.

The dog food market in the United States

The large number of dogs owned by Americans creates a lucrative market for pet food brands and retailers. Pedigree, the leading dry dog food name brand in the U.S., had sales amounting to around 550 million U.S. dollars in 2017. Pedigree also led the pack in the wet dog food category , with sales of around 240 million U.S. dollars in the same year.

This statistic presents the estimated number of pet dogs in Ireland in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. The dog population in Ireland was measured at approximately ******* in 2023.

The data provided includes: serial number, year, county and city code, county and city, total estimated number of pet dogs, total estimated number of pet cats, total estimated number of stray dogs, and remarks.

Dogs and Cats Online Data

Active Dog Licenses. All dog owners residing in NYC are required by law to license their dogs. The data is sourced from the DOHMH Dog Licensing System (https://a816-healthpsi.nyc.gov/DogLicense), where owners can apply for and renew dog licenses. Each record represents a unique dog license that was active during the year, but not necessarily a unique record per dog, since a license that is renewed during the year results in a separate record of an active license period. Each record stands as a unique license period for the dog over the course of the yearlong time frame.

Dogs and Cats Online Data 2023-2024

This statistic shows the number of pet dogs registered in Sweden from 2013 to 2024. In 2024, the number of registered pet dogs in Sweden reached over ***********.

Since the entry into force of the Landeshundegesetz NRW, the competent local regulatory authorities are obliged to report the number of dangerous dogs, dogs of certain breeds and large dogs (§§ 3, 10 and 11 LHundG NRW) reported to the district governments each year as of 31.12., divided according to the dog breeds listed in the law (only 8 selected breeds are to be reported for the large dogs according to § 11 and all other large dogs). The number of bite incidents and other incidents recorded in the reporting year must also be reported, again broken down by race. In addition, it is differentiated whether the bite incidents have led to injuries to humans or animals. In addition, the number of official findings on the dangerousness of dogs in individual cases (Section 3(3) of the LHundG NRW) as well as the number of criminal proceedings and OWi proceedings initiated in each case must be reported on a racial basis. The district governments summarise the reports received from the municipal regulatory authorities in a table and send this table to the Ministry in the first quarter of the following year. This checks the figures received for plausibility, summarises the figures for the respective year for the whole country, calculates from the reported absolute figures relative frequencies (e.g. number of bite incidents of a dog breed in relation to the total population of this breed) and creates graphic representations and comparison tables to the statistics of previous years from this data. The file below contains the complete individual annual statistics from 2013 onwards.

This dataset is a modelled dataset, describing the predicted population of dogs per postcode district (e.g. YO41). This dataset gives the mean estimate for population for each district, and was generated as part of the delivery of commissioned research. The data contained within this dataset are modelled figures, based on national estimates for pet population, and available information on Veterinary activity across GB. The data are accurate as of 01/01/2015. The data provided are summarised to the postcode district level. Further information on this research is available in a research publication by James Aegerter, David Fouracre & Graham C. Smith, discussing the structure and density of pet cat and dog populations across Great Britain.

Dataset Summary

A dataset from kaggle with duplicate data removed.

  Data Fields

The data instances have the following fields:

image: A PIL.Image.Image object containing the image. Note that when accessing the image column: dataset[0]["image"] the image file is automatically decoded. Decoding of a large number of image files might take a significant amount of time. Thus it is important to first query the sample index before the "image" column, i.e. dataset[0]["image"]… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Bingsu/Cat_and_Dog.

The Dog Health Vitals Dataset is a collection of recordings and vital statistics related to the health of dogs. It includes data captured during various recording sessions, providing insights into the physiological characteristics of the dogs.

Summary data for dogs denied entry to the United States by year, January 1, 2018—December 31,2020.

With over 470 million dogs kept as pets worldwide, dogs came out on top as the leading type of pet in 2018. Within the same year, there were roughly 370 million pet cats in the world.

Pets in the European Union

While dogs were globally speaking the most common type of pet, cats were more common in the European Union in 2018. Roughly 75 million people within this region had a pet cat in 2018, compared to the 65 million pet dogs. That year, Germany had about nine and a half million pet dogs, making it the country with the highest number within the European Union. Other top dog-loving countries included the United Kingdom, Poland, and France.

Other pets in Germany

Besides cats and dogs, Germans had many other household pets in 2018. About five and a half million small pets, such as hamsters and rabbits, were kept by Germans that year. Additionally, about two million households in Germany owned an aquarium and roughly one and a half million households owned a garden pond.

Calculation of standard bodyweights for dogs, cats, rabbits, and guinea pigsStuart D. Becker, Dan G. O’Neill, Siân-Marie Frosini, Laura E. Stapleton, David M. Hughes, Dave C. BrodbeltPlos One (2025) doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0318734This item is the data dictionary for data sets used to calculate standard bodyweights adjusted for juvenile growth in dogs, cats, rabbits, and guinea pigs. Please see linked paper for methodology.

Results of the street dogs survey done by BBMP.

Data on annual population change for prairie dogs in Montana and Utah, USA, 2000-2005. Prairie dog species included black-tailed prairie dogs (PDs) (BTPD, Cynomys ludovicianus) in north-central Montana, white-tailed PDs (WTPD, Cynomys leucurus) in eastern Utah, and Utah PDs (UPD, Cynomys parvidens) in southwestern Utah. Field research was completed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, and colleagues. Data were collected on paired plots. Each pair included a plot treated annually with deltamethrin dust for flea control and plague mitigation and a plot left untreated as baselines. Paired plots had similar ecological features on the same (split) or nearby (separate) colonies. One plot within each pair was randomly selected for deltamethrin dust treatment. We used summertime visual counts as an index to PD population size.We conducted visual counts annually during June-August, after young PDs were aboveground. We used binoculars and spotting scopes to systematically and repeatedly scan the plots (each plot was 3-9 hectares in area), beginning just after sunrise and continuing until warming temperatures caused a decline in counts. We repeated the procedure for three days, using for analysis the highest count obtained. We counted from the same locations each year, simultaneously counting treated and non-treated plots of each pair. Visual counts were transformed into values of finite population change by dividing the PD count at the end of an annual interval by the count at the beginning of the interval. For example, if year is 2001, then population change was for the interval 2000 to 2001. Primary funding was provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and Bureau of Land Management, supplemented by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and the Utah Department of Natural Resources Endangered Species Mitigation Fund. In-kind support was provided by the Bryce Canyon National Park, Dixie National Forest and BLM offices in Utah (Vernal, Cedar City, Richfield, and Torrey), Colorado (Meeker), and Montana (Malta). R. Reading and B. Miller of the Denver Zoological Foundation provided logistical support for parts of the study.

The Stanford Dogs dataset contains images of 120 breeds of dogs from around the world. This dataset has been built using images and annotation from ImageNet for the task of fine-grained image categorization. There are 20,580 images, out of which 12,000 are used for training and 8580 for testing. Class labels and bounding box annotations are provided for all the 12,000 images.

To use this dataset:

import tensorflow_datasets as tfds

ds = tfds.load('stanford_dogs', split='train')
for ex in ds.take(4):
 print(ex)

See the guide for more informations on tensorflow_datasets.

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NYC Reported Dog Bites. Section 11.03 of NYC Health Code requires all animals bites to be reported within 24 hours of the event. Information reported assists the Health Department to determine if the biting dog is healthy ten days after the person was bitten in order to avoid having the person bitten receive unnecessary rabies shots. Data is collected from reports received online, mail, fax or by phone to 311 or NYC DOHMH Animal Bite Unit. Each record represents a single dog bite incident. Information on breed, age, gender and Spayed or Neutered status have not been verified by DOHMH and is listed only as reported to DOHMH. A blank space in the dataset means no data was available.

Data gathered under the Control of Dogs Act 1986 in order to enforce legislation. Current data being held in order to initiate legal proceedings. Historical data is held in order to generate requested reports and statistics. Historical data is also used for FOI requests, claims, queries etc.

Dogs and Cats Online Data 2022-2023