Originally Posted By WDWdreamin So, I'm too late now? I have no pets at this time, but just wait til we have our own house! My parents have no pets. My DSis has a dog and a cat - Ginger and Juneau. My Dbro has a dog - Aussie. My roommates have three dogs - Rogan, Penny, and Sydney. My last roommate has two cats - Fred and Hermione. Tink, I want to see a pure-bread GSD, that's a lot of bread!
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon Am I too late too? We have 3 cats; 1 beautiful long haired long tailed black and white 10 yr. old cat named Princess Patches. 1 stub tailed 11 yr.old tortoiseshell tabby named Cleo. 1 no~tailed (not even a stub)10 yr. old tabby named Buddy. Didn't see this yesterday as I worked all day, so I hope I'm not too late. Good luck Mikey!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Thank guys, the poll is now closed (we had to get the work done while Mikey was awake). Thank you everyone for your help. Between LP, Facebook and the usual weekend phone calls with family and friends, we managed to poll 100 people within 27 hours. Pretty amazing this technology stuff. Mikey was hoping for 100 people in the poll (we hit it, thank you everyone - we said he was being over optimistic, but bless him, he nailed it). He wanted to know how many people had a pet, and he wanted to know how many had dogs. We was only allowed to ask one question, so he was the one that suggested we ask an open question. It was really interesting stuff. WE had the 100 answers from England, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Italy, Dubai, Japan, the US and Canada. These were the findings: Of the 100 people asked, 20 (or 20%) did not have a pet. So he was right, more people have pets than not. Of the 100 people, the pets were popular in this order: 81 dogs 76 cats 43 birds (this includes chickens and ducks) 34 rodents (rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rats, and degu) 21 fish collections (not everyone posted how many, so for ease we counted frequency) 19 Reptiles (snakes, lizards, turtles and frogs) 9 other (this includes ponies, horses, insects and crustaceans) So there are 283 pets out of the 100 people = 2.83 pets per person. If you just consider the 80 people who have pets, that means the ratio increases to 3.54 pets per pet owner. We produced a bar chart and pie chart to show pet owning households vs. none, and then a bar chart and pie chart to show the different pets in popularity. Again, his hypothesis was correct in that the dog is statistically the most popular pet of the people asked. We then talked about other breakdowns we could do, such as popularity by country or county, or age (though the data is missing) or gender. He is only 6, so we didn't want to take it to far. Thanks for your help folks, I'm quite proud of my little social scientist. Though daddy did the data entry, Mikey managed the methodology and manually tallied the results (I showed him validation using excel, which he thought was cool, but we would only do this after he did it manually). Mike is struggling in school, but he really enjoyed this. And where he had not heard of an animal before, both he and his sister enjoyed googling to learn about them (these were Degu and Hermit Crabs that he was uncertain of). Thank you again folks. It is very much appreciated.
Originally Posted By Fowley If it's needed, you also have an Aussie pet list from me there, not sure if it was needed
Originally Posted By disney pete oh shoot im too late i just realised my son and his girlfriend have 2 puppies jake and kasey....oh well, well done mikey.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Ooops. sorry Fowley, I should have included Australia on the list. We did in the actual report.
Originally Posted By Fowley Thats better lol, I was gonna mention the wallabies, koala's and wombats we own but that would be bragging haha (I wish on wombats though)
Originally Posted By evilalice We have two dogs Rocko and Roman and a couple fish but they remain nameless
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Mike is struggling in school, but he really enjoyed this.*** I struggled in school often, and I can only tell you that when I actually FOUND stuff that I cared about (music is the obvious one, but also I found that I actually enjoyed history as well as a rudimentary psychology class in high school which lead me to minor in it in college), I was much happier to say the least. Hopefully Mike will continue to find stuff here and there that he can enjoy taking part in and learning about, that's the best way to get excited about school imho...
Originally Posted By debtee <Ooops. sorry Fowley, I should have included Australia on the list. We did in the actual report.> Ahhh you had me worried that I had missed the deadline! lol
