Survey For My Class

Hey guys I'm doing a speech on nontraditional pets, and I'm trying to gather some more data and viewpoints, so it would mean a lot to me if you have a moment to just answer these questions. For my purposes, I defining a "traditional pet" as a cat or dog, and a "nontraditional pet" as any small mammal, reptile, invertebrate, bird fish, or traditional barnyard animal kept for companion purposes (Not wild animals).

Survey:
1) Do you identify as a nontraditional pet owner, traditional pet owner, both, or neither?
2) Do you consider your pet (traditional or non) part of the family?
3) Do you think a nontraditional pet adds value to your life like a traditional pet would/does?
4) In 20 words or less, what is the most important thing when choosing a nontraditional pet?
5) On a scale of 1-5, 1 being very little and 5 being very much, how important is keeping nontraditional pets to you?

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Originally Posted by gaitedappy

Hey guys I'm doing a speech on nontraditional pets, and I'm trying to gather some more data and viewpoints, so it would mean a lot to me if you have a moment to just answer these questions. For my purposes, I defining a "traditional pet" as a cat or dog, and a "nontraditional pet" as any small mammal, reptile, invertebrate, bird fish, or traditional barnyard animal kept for companion purposes (Not wild animals).

Survey:
1) Do you identify as a nontraditional pet owner, traditional pet owner, both, or neither? BOTH
2) Do you consider your pet (traditional or non) part of the family? YES
3) Do you think a nontraditional pet adds value to your life like a traditional pet would/does? YES
4) In 20 words or less, what is the most important thing when choosing a nontraditional pet? Considering the time required to maintain the proper living conditions and social requirements
5) On a scale of 1-5, 1 being very little and 5 being very much, how important is keeping nontraditional pets to you? 4

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1) Just a pet owner
2) The Pets, absolutely.
3) For me, yes.
4) What you can handle and will enjoy.
5) Keeping pets in general is very important, regardless of if they're "non-traditional" or not, so 4.

Sigh.
I'll start and end with the first question.
Do you identify as a nontraditional pet owner, traditional pet owner, both, or neither?
I guess, that's today's public schools for you. Meaningless PC verbosity. To answer your question, I don't "identify" at all. I happen to own two snakes. I also own three dogs, and various livestock.

Gaitdappy, I am not slamming you, but maybe try for an angle with a little more meat to it?

First off this is a really cool idea.

1. I would consider my self both because I own both traditional and non-traditional animals.
2. Yes, I consider every animal we own a part of the family. Even our horse that doesn't live at the house is like family.
3. Yes, it makes us more interesting than if we just had dogs or cats. Not saying dogs and cats aren't interesting, they are just more common pets. Another reason is that since I have gotten in to reptiles and horses it has expanded my knowledge and drive to learn more about animals in general not just reptiles.
4. Same thing as when choosing a traditional pet. Health, personalty, asking yourself can I take proper care of this animal until it dies? Many more reasons but I believe I am over 20 words. :)
5. 5. I believe that non-traditional animals are super important to the pet trade.

1) Both
2) Yes
3) Yes
4) Do you have the knowledge, skills, and resources to care for it for its lifetime?
5) 4

1) Both (cat and snakes)
2) Yes
3) Yes
4) Do you have enough knowledge about its species to keep it well cared for, and a specialist veterinarian near you?
5) 3

I had to make it as narrow as possible for the guidelines, I don't like it either but my professor is a stickler for things being her way... I'm even lucky she let me pick the topic I wanted.

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Originally Posted by gaitedappy

I had to make it as narrow as possible for the guidelines, I don't like it either but my professor is a stickler for things being her way... I'm even lucky she let me pick the topic I wanted.

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Sorry for the thread hijack, but since I didn't start it, and you fed us:
Here's what's funny. She works for you. Your tuition pays her salary. She has bosses. There is a dean of students who is supposed to be there to represent the staff to the students should an issue arise. Public school teachers work for the taxpayers whose children they are educating. Write it up like it should be. Then when she grades you down, you take it to the dean of students, or the chair of the department, or the dean of the entire school and fight it. That's the only way things like this can change, if people stop taking the PC entitlement BS laying down.

1) both
2) yes
3) yes
4) health and personality, and can i care for it properly for it's lifetime
5) 3.5