With today's launch of Feline-ality, the latest addition to the ASPCA's Meet Your Match (www.aspca.org) (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) announced the results of a survey it conducted last month, to gauge how pet parents across the country feel about life with their cats.
Via an online, unscientific survey of members conducted in August, we asked pet parents to tell us all about their feline friends as seen through their eyes -- how they live together and
get along, and to identify any challenges they were willing to share. The nearly 12,000 responses received were eye-opening, spotlighting both the benefits and the challenges that pet
parents face in their relationships with their cats.
"We were able to discover through this fun survey that many times people bring an animal into their home -- especially cats -- but then the animal's true personality surprises them in
both positive and negative ways," said Dr. Emily Weiss, senior director of Shelter Behavior Programs for the ASPCA, and one of the architects of ASPCA's Meet Your Match (