Miraz
Miraz

Heh 🐈 🐶 🍽:

New Zealand has the highest per capita rate of cat ownership of any country in the world, with 41% of households owning cats and 34% owning dogs.

Who’s eating New Zealand: What your cat is eating | RNZ News

Since 1990 our [cats] have [eaten] $1.5bn of food…

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jayeless
jayeless

@Miraz Interesting, I had thought Russia had the highest rate of cat ownership by household! But it looks like they’re only at 33% (except there was one anomalous year where it sprung up to 39% – that must’ve been the year I read about Russia having the highest rate 🤣). At any rate, it’s good to hear NZ cats are eating well 😉

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Miraz
Miraz

@jayeless I initially assumed it’d be an article about NZ cats eating native wildlife … I guess millions of dollars of imported food is the better option.

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jayeless
jayeless

@Miraz Haha, that was my first thought as well. I’d thought it was a little strange they put a number on the financial value of native wildlife… definitely preferable that it was about cat food 😛

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@Miraz I wonder

how many cats that is

How many households are dogs and cats

How many billions of food people have eaten in NZ over that same period

???

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Miraz
Miraz

@JohnPhilpin Well, the info may well be there… 😀

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@Miraz couldn’t see that at top level and time to drill into the actual report I do not have

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