United States | Counting canines

These American cities are obsessed with dogs

They are probably not the ones you think

A woman walks her two dogs and pushes her dog stroller simultaneously.
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|Los Angeles

ONE OF THE caricatures of millennials (along with eating too much avocado toast, as if that’s possible) is that they treat their pets like children. Precious pups are carted around in prams. Spot isn’t just a dog, he is a “fur baby”. Except he is probably not called Spot. Human names for pets are en vogue. There is even some overlap between the top-ten names for dogs and babies. “Luna” and “Theodore” grace both lists, though for dogs it is the cuddlier “Teddy”.

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