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If you’re visiting this site, chances are you love your dog! However, you might also be a parent to other furry, feathery, scaly creatures that get your attention. Therefore, on February 20th, you can celebrate National Love Your Pet Day.
Certainly, you love your dog and other pets every day of the calendar! However, this national awareness day is for showering your furry, feathery, scaly family members with extra love.
Furthermore, this holiday encourages spending quality time to show how much you love your dog and pets. In fact, doing this actually benefits you, as much as it does your pets.
Nobody knows for sure how or who started this unofficial national pet holiday. However, it can be traced back to being celebrated on a wide scale in the early 2000’s.
Nonetheless, it’s a great day to love your dog and pets by spoiling them more than normally. In addition, let them know just how much of a family member they truly are.
Are you a reader that just loves browsing posts about dogs, but you don’t have one? You can still celebrate National Love Your Pet Day! For instance, you can make a food or treat donation to your local rescue center. Plus, you can volunteer to spend time walking dogs at your local rescue center.
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Love Your Dog and Pets – What Polls and Surveys Have to Say
On the other hand, the Gallup poll reports that 60% of Americans are current pet parents. Plus, a survey conducted by National Today ranks dogs as the number one most popular pet in America.
You love your dog. I love my dog. A lot of people love dogs. By the way, dogs have over 100 million facial expressions. So, no wonder they’re so easy to love! I mean, seriously, look how those eyes, eyebrows, and ears talk to us.
Thus, National Today’s Love Your Pet Day survey reveals 40% of Americans consider dogs the most popular pet. In addition, cats are considered number two with a 25% popularity vote.
According to the same survey, 22% of Americans say they are grateful for their pets’ unconditional love. Furthermore, 17% say they are grateful when their pet comforts them when they’re sad.
The Love Your Pet Day survey posed the question, how do you show affection to your pet? Following are the top four results.
- I play with my pet (15%)
- I give my pet treats and gifts (13%)
- I cuddle with my pet (12%)
- I tell my pet, “I love you” (10%)
You can read all of the results from the Love Your Pet Day survey at nationaltoday.com. While there, you can take a quiz to determine what type of pet person you are. That is, if you are unsure!
In addition to showing affection to your pet, there are other ways to love your dog and pets. Therefore, I’ve compiled some ideas to help you celebrate National Love Your Pet Day.
Ideas to Show How Much You Love Your Dog
The ideas are actually endless when it comes to showing how much you love your dog. However, you will want to come up with ideas specific to your dog. Furthermore, ask yourself what it is your dog loves the most.
Above all, have fun creating your list of ideas for celebrating National Love Your Pet Day. Below are four ideas to get you on your way to showing how much you love your dog.
Do Some Baking
You can never go wrong when you treat your dog to a homemade goody. Plus, your dog knows when you are whipping up something special just for them. Most importantly, you know exactly what is going into their treats. There are a variety of recipes for treats of all kinds, such as frozen, pupcakes, or biscuits.
Check out these recipes from the Dog Chef section of this blog:
- Go Bananas Biscuits
- Sweet Potato Dog Waffles
- Banana Apple Pupcakes
- Frozen Peanut Butter Coconut Bites
Life is Short, Spoil Your Dog
Go ahead! Spoil your dog! It’s so much fun! Plus, there are so many ways to do it. For instance, bake a doggy cake for your dog to celebrate National Love Your Pet Day. In addition, spoil your dog on this day by bringing home a new toy. Then, when you bring out the new toy, get down on the floor and play with your dog. Certainly, your dog will feel the spoiling with extra belly rubs or snuggles. Furthermore, pamper your dog with an at home spa day of bathing and paw massaging.
Spend Some Quality Time
Stay indoors or head outdoors to spend quality time with your dog. For instance, staying indoors you can cuddle up and watch a movie. Or, you can play a game. On the other hand, head outdoors for a sniffing walk, or a hike. In addition, take your dog to the dog park and play fetch with a ball or frisbee. Most importantly, it really doesn’t matter what you do, your dog just loves having your undivided attention.
Show Your Dog Off on Social Media
Post a pic or a video online to show everyone just how much you love your dog. Plus, you can commemorate National Love Your Pet Day with a photo of you and your dog. Show us how you are celebrating National Love Your Pet Day. Post your pics on the Snoot & Toebeans’ Facebook page (@AndSnoot). Be sure to use the hashtags #NationalLoveYourPetDay and #LoveYourDog.
In Conclusion
Most importantly, to celebrate this national day, you must intentionally set aside time to spend with your dog. Have fun celebrating National Love Your Pet Day by showing how much you love your dog.
What ideas would you add to the ones above? We would love to read them in the comments below.
How do you show how much you love your dog? Let us know in the comments below.
You might enjoy reading about these other national days for dogs:
- National Doggy Date Night
- National Take a Hike Day
- National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day
- National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day
- National Kids and Pets Day
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