Hardest Working States & Dog Day

What is the hardest working state? Dangerous Dave talks about a survey from Wallethub that says North Dakota tops the list where Michigan sits at the bottom. Minnesota is at number 19. Plus, it is National Dog Day and people would rather have a medium size dog than a large one.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deuber in the den with dangerous Day. Well,
believe it or not, Monday is Labor Day, and in general,
Americans put in more hours of work than people in
most other countries. The average US eighteen hundred and five
hours last year, more than people in Canada, Australia, Japan,
or the UK, but less than people in Colombia or Korea.

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But what state has the hardest workers? Well, it's not Michigan.
The annual study ranked fifty states based on things like
employment rates, hours worked, average commute, and how much free
time people have in general. According to the results, number
one on the list North Dakota. That's followed by Alaska,
South Dakota, Texas, Hawaii, Virginia, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Maryland, and Nebraska.

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Minnesota said at number nineteen in the hardest working states. Michigan, however,
ranked last, followed by West Virginia, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York, California, Ohio,
New Mexico, Illinois, and Oregon. North Dakota the hardest working state.
See I knew it was difficult to put this button
deeper in the two. Well, Happy National Dog Day to you,

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ladies and gentlemen. About forty five percent of Americans have
a dog, compared to thirty two percent who own cats.
Many of them owned both, so if you look at
just pet owners overall, seventy four percent have dogs, fifty
one percent have cats, so there's some overlapped. A new
poll and the Pet Food bre and Hills looked at
how most likely we're going to get a dog in
twenty twenty five. It's not from a shelter or a

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pet store. If you get a dog from a friend
or family member, you're not alone. Thirty three percent of
dog owners got their last dog that way. Shelters and
breeders are next to twenty four percent, and then pet
stores at eighteen percent. Ten percent found them as astray.
Big difference with cats more than twice as likely to
adopt a stray. Twenty two percent got a cat when
it just strolled into their life off the street. Back

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to the dogs, though, Bull looked at different sized dogs.
What is her favorite? Are you a big dog person,
small dog person? Somewhere in the middle. Medium dogs are
most popular, that's between twenty six and fifty four pounds.
Small dogs are next, and just twenty five percent say
they want a big dog. Top reason for not wanting
a big dog not having enough room, harder to travel with,
cost more to feed them. Whether you can keep up

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with them or not also matters. Thirty four percent of
people under forty five will get a big dog, compared
to just eighteen percent of people older than that, So
not getting a big dog because of the cost of food,
being able to keep up with them, and the fact
you have to carry a thirty two gallon bag with
you when you walk them to pick up their poop.
Tune in again for another episode of Deeper in the
Den with Dangerous daved right here.