Do More People Want to Adopt or Buy Cats After the Pandemic? Story

Do More People Want to Adopt or Buy Cats After the Pandemic?

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The lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 changed the lifestyles of many Americans in both temporary and long term ways.

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The Discerning Cat

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In light of this, did Covid change how many people were looking to buy or adopt cats in the US? And has the number of people interested in adopting rather than buying changed since before the pandemic?

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To find out, we used Keyword Finder to analyze the Google search rate for several variants of key phrases such as ‘cats for sale near me’ and ‘cat shelter near me’.

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We then repeated this research for 2019 through 2021, and compiled the average monthly search rates for all related searches to find the total number of searches made for adopting and buying cats respectively.

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– Intentions to buy or adopt a cat rose most rapidly at the beginning of the pandemic, with Americans searching an average of 339,747 times a month in 2020, a 59% higher search rate than in 2019.

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– This figure continued to rise throughout 2021 and 2022, with Americans searching a monthly average of 389,140 and 440,300 times each year respectively.

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