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Seattle named top 1 dog city

By Linda Deng | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-04-11 05:42

Dubs II, an Alaskan malamute set to take over duties as Washington's dog mascot in 2019, gives a high-five to his handler, in Seattle, Sept 8, 2018. [Photo/IC]

Seattle has been named top dog in a ranking of the most dog-friendly cities in the United States.

The rankings were based on study on more than 14,000 cities by Rover, a network of dog walkers and pet sitters, and real-estate company Redfin.

Factors taken into consideration include the number of dog parks and other amenities in each city; total hours, minutes and distance per walk by each dog walker or sitter on Rover; the city's walkability score; and the number of times the word "dog" was mentioned in real-estate ads.

According to US Census data from 2011, there are about 153,000 dogs in the city, compared with 107,178 kids.

The Seattle based tech giant Amazon, not only allow their employee to bring their dogs to work, but also opened a dog park in downtown Seattle's campus.

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