(THE NATION FORMERLY KNOWN AS BRITAIN):

Staff take more time off for ill pets than relatives (ANGIE BROWN, 4/28/05, The Scotsman)

BRITISH people are more likely to take time off work to care for their sick pets than their partners or relatives, new research out today claimed.

The study revealed that dog owners took 2.7 million working days off over the past two years to care for poorly animals.

Of the UK’s estimated 5.4 million dog owners, 10 per cent have missed at least five days of work and 5 per cent have taken two weeks. But the same compassion is not applied to sick partners or relatives - the same owners took only 1.08 million days off in the same period to care for them.

They have pets. They don't have families. Europe is becoming ahuman.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 28, 2005 8:28 AM