![]() ![]() ![]() 43% of households living in a separate house owned a dog and 30% owned a cat. People aged 60 or more who lived alone were least likely to have a dog (16%).ĭwelling type and available space may influence the type of pet a household keeps. A half of these households owned a dog, a third owned a cat and a fifth owned birds. Married couples with dependants were most likely of all household family types to have pets. Three-quarters of households where the oldest child was aged 10-14 kept pets. ![]() The proportion of households with pets generally increased with the age of the oldest child. Households with young children (aged 0-4) only were less likely to keep pets than households with school-age children. Some of the more unusual pets were spiders, frogs and peacocks. 57% of households who kept fish and 35% of households who kept birds had three or more compared to 4% of households who kept dogs and 9% of households who kept cats. This is because people who keep birds or fish are more likely to keep several of them than people who keep dogs or cats. Although more birds and fish were kept than dogs or cats, more households had a dog (38%) or cat (27%) than had a bird (16%) or fish (9%). In 1994, the most common pets were birds (6.0 million), fish (4.3 million), dogs (3.1 million) and cats (2.5 million). The most common control methods are exclusion fences, poisoning and trapping. This is especially the case where suburbia is close to farmland. Stray or feral dogs are a threat to livestock, in particular, sheep. One estimate suggests that the feral cat population could be between 5.6 million and 18.4 million 1. While the number of domestic cats in Australia has been estimated, it is difficult to estimate the number of feral cats due to lack of research. Most of the problems associated with feral animals in Australia arise because they can rapidly increase in numbers without natural predators or diseases to control them.ĭomestic cats continually feed into the stray and feral populations. Domestic animals and their descendants which have gone wild are known as feral animals. The term domestic applies to those animals that live closely with or depend on humans. Reasons why households keep pets include companionship, recreation and protection. Three in every five households had at least one pet. There were an estimated 17.8 million household pets in Australia in 1994. Two in every five households owned a dog and one in every four owned a cat. In 1994, there were almost as many domestic pets in Australia as people. ![]()
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