The average cat owner takes seven photos a day of their cat (and I take many more)

Cat owners are often a peculiar kind. I am one of them (proudly) and can easily admit this. Although I am learning every day more. So I no longer send every photo of my prettiest Pebbles in all group chats and also not every selfie I take with her. But really, it takes me a lot of effort each time not to do it. Because she is so pretty, and so sweet. And so it turns out that about 75% of the photos on my phone are of my cat. Don't believe that percentage? Really, I show them to you with love. All of them. Piece. By. Piece.

Now, according to recent research, I fall slightly above average, as the average cat owner takes seven photos a day of their pet. This was revealed in a study by OnePoll, which interviewed a thousand cat owners for this (clearly not me, and otherwise I would be such an outlier that I probably wouldn't even count). But okay, seven photos a day is still a fairly high number. But they are often photogenic, right, those cats of ours.

By the way, more fun facts came up: about 42% have a framed photo of their cat hanging in their home (guilty) and 60% describe their cat as loyal (mine is too, many of my ex-boyfriends could still learn something from that). Now I don't know exactly what the research considers ‘loyal’, but I haven't caught my cat snacking on treats from the neighbors yet. She also clearly prefers to sit on my lap than with others (or I don't allow her to).

Clearly, we also like to spend time with them, about 1016 hours a year. Yes, that's over 42 days. I wonder what the criteria were for ‘spending’, since my cat follows me everywhere in the house, so every second I take a step inside, I am already ‘spending’ time with her. With a maximum distance of half a meter, because otherwise, the screaming from her side starts. Oh, they are so sweet, right, those cats?