Animal Survey (Blog 5)

My survey was about animals and the relationships that people have with them. Because of the fact that students may live in a dorm, I asked everyone to answer the questions as if they lived at home. Out of the 400 people that I sent the survey to, only 43 took the survey. Here are my results:

1) What is your gender?

     a) Male (23.3%)

     b) Female (76.6%)

2) Are you a student or a faculty member?

     a) Student (95.3%)

     b) Faculty member (4.7%)

3) Do you have a pet?

     a) Yes (90.7%)

     b) No (9.3%)

4) If you have a pet, how many do you have?

     a) 0-1 (23.3%)

     b) 2-3 (41.9%)

     c) 4+ (27.9%)

     d) I do not own a pet. (7 %)

5) If you have a pet, how often do you spend time with it?

     a) Never/Seldom (2.3%)

     b) Sometimes (16.3%)

     c) Frequently (74.4%)

     d) I do not own a pet. (7%)

6) If you do not have a pet, would you consider adopting one?

     a) Yes (20.9%)

     b) No (7%)

     c) I have a pet. (69.8%)

7) I like animals.

     a) Strongly disagree (16.3%)

     b) Disagree (2%)

     c) Agree (14%)

     d) Strongly agree (65.1%)

8) What is your favorite animal?

     This question was a short answer response. I received answers ranging from the "normal" house pets of cats, dogs, snakes, turtles and rabbits to animals such as a Siberian tiger, moose, squirrel monkey, crocodile, sloth, red panda, woodchuck, prairie dog, penguin, horse, lion, koala, platypus, and even a "dog-shark-octopus hybrid (I am curious to see what this would look like...)." One person even said that they love them all, something that I would definitely say!

Overall this survey has left me a little confused because while multiple questions had some sort of "I do not own a pet" option, the answers varied. I cannot say for sure whether men would be more likely to own more pets than women because there were far less men who took the survey. Although, I can say that the majority of the survey takers had at least one pet.

I could not find a "dog-shark-octopus hybrid," but I did find a "sharktopus!"