A recently published Dartmouth study landed on some interesting findings about pet owners and their philanthropic habits.

While pet owners in general donate the most frequently to charitable causes, it was found that the non-pet owners donated the highest amounts.

Professor Herbert Chang is an assistant quantitative social science professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and was a lead author on the research.

He said he counts both cat and dog owners among his close friends, and that the study was inspired by a simple question: Who gives more charitably? Cat owners or dog owners?

So when an enormous amount of data from a marketing company that worked with a few hundred long-standing nonprofits was at his fingertips, he took the opportunity to dig for an answer.

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