Like Your Name & Pet Cost

Do you like your first name? Dangerous Dave talks about a poll that says that most people do. Plus, what is the cost to have a pet? Study shows over $20,000 in their lifetime.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Deeper in the den with Dangerous Dave. You
know most people have a love hate relationship with their
name at some point in their life. Maybe you wish
your name was something more common or less common, or
something more simple to spell or more unique. Overall, people
generally like their names, and a new poll, six percent
of people said they don't like their names, four percent

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said dislike it, and two percent said hate it. Forty
two percent of people said they love their name, thirty
one percent like it, nineteen percent are neutral. Men more
likely to be cool with their name, especially younger guys.
Sixty three percent of people in the poll said their
name is common, where thirty three percent said it's uncommon.
Twenty four percent said they generally prefer names that are

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more common, and thirty nine percent prefer ones that are
less common. Thirty seven percent of people weren't sure. Well,
people must like my middle name better than my first name,
because more people will call me Dave than will call
me dangerous Deeper in the two. Well, remember this number
the next time your dog poops on the floor. It's
going to sting even more. A new study found out

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owning pets costs way more than people think price tag
keeps going up. People we ask how much they think
it costs to care for a cat or a dog
for fifteen years. For cats, average price fifty seven to
thirty five, for dogs eighty one fifty eight. But the
real numbers three times more than that, maybe even more,
depending upon the type of food you buy, whether you
get lucky with vet bills, and how much you spoil them.

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Caring for a cat costs now more than twenty thousand
to forty seven thousand dollars over the course so their life,
For dogs twenty two thousand to just under sixty one thousand.
That's an average of at least thirteen hundred dollars a
year for cats and fifteen hundred dollars a year for dogs.
They say that even something like a rabbit can cost
easily over one thousand dollars annually. The cost of dogs
has gone up twelve percent in the past three years

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nineteen percent for cats. Having multiple pets does save a
little on a per pet basis, but not a lot.
So does that mean we're poised to go and start
living pet free? I wouldn't count on it. More than
seventy five percent of pet owners say their dogg or
cat is a family member, a best friend, or a child.
Twenty four percent of dog owners said child, compared to

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twenty one percent of cat owners. So it's not cheap
to own pets. But I had to go get my
own pet. The neighbor got mad at me when I
just kept going over to pet his tune again for
another episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Dave
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