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UMBRELLA SHOT, Flickr Many pet rescue and adoption advocates live by the motto "Pets are for life." But what if your pet is unintentionally driving a wedge between you and your love life? A new AP-Petside poll found that, when forced to choose, as many as 14 percent of current pet owners would tell their spouses or significant others to hit the road rather than ditch their pets. When it comes to unmarried pet owners, the numbers skew slightly more in favor of pets -- 25 percent. The majority of those surveyed in the AP-Petside poll agree with Montreal resident Sarah Licha, who would choose a partner first. Licha tells Paw Nation, "If one really questions the choice between a pet and a ...

Flickr/hoangnam_nguyen A new Associated Press/Petside.com poll asked 1,967 people, including 1,166 with pets, how they feel about pooches and kitties. And the results are in. Seventy-four percent of adults surveyed said they liked dogs a lot, while only 41 percent said they liked cats a lot, the AP reported. On the flip side, 15 percent of the respondents said they disliked cats a lot, compared to just 2 percent of people who dislike dogs a lot. The results stirred up heated reactions among pet owners. "Cats are "nasty, stinking creatures," Mark David of Warrensburg, Mo., told the AP. "Cats are 1,000 times smarter than dogs," Bonnie Hanson, of Sioux Falls, S.D., countered in the AP ...