Discover Dogs 2018 Podcasts

Research has revealed that children are wearing the trousers when it comes to decisions about dog ownership, as one in four dog owning households admit that pester power from their children made them decide to buy a dog . Furthermore, one in ten says that their children chose the breed or crossbreed that they ended up buying. With more and more people turning to the internet to buy a dog, it seems that the tech-savvy younger generation are having a greater say than ever over our nation’s choice of dog and the Kennel Club is concerned that this will translate into hundreds of dogs being bought on a whim in the lead up to Christmas, particularly as the research found that one in ten people still buy dogs as presents. The Kennel Club’s Discover Dogs survey, which has been conducted ahead of its Discover Dogs event taking place at Earls Court on 9 and 10 November, has also revealed that too many people are buying a dog without realising that there are great differences between the care needs of the different br