Dog owners know well that it is much easier to enter into a conversation with a person walking a dog than to approach a stranger without a four-legged friend.
Based on this observation and the successful records of dating sites for single souls, new dating sites for pet lovers become quite active online. Besides virtual dating, they provide an opportunity to dog persons to meet, befriend, take walks together, and go even further.
By Vanessa Sanson
They bring together people who share the same passion, thus helping them to avoid a possible point of disagreement in their future relations.
According to a study conducted by a dog walking company Wag:
- 50 percent of dog owners have been flirted with while walking their pet;
- 70 percent are more likely to chat online or even go home with people who say they have a dog;
- 86 percent would break up with their partners if they weren’t into their dog!
And that’s not all.
Many pet owners find that their pet lacks mates. They, therefore, start looking for other owners who have the same feeling and who want to organize meetings for their pets.
Here are a list and description of the most popular dog dating sites.
Date My Pet
Date My Pet, founded in 2004, insists that it is not an “another dating site” but a meeting place for pet people. "Whether you are looking for a life partner, a buddy for your pet, or just someone to hang out with, here you’ll be able to find exactly who you are looking for – pet lovers like yourself."
The site is free to use for registering, viewing profiles, and receiving matches but a paid membership is required for messaging and chat options.
The important site’s feature is strict control over your privacy. You can remain totally anonymous until you decide to share your data with someone.
Pet People Meet
https://www.petpeoplemeet.com/
PetPeopleMeet.com is a niche dating service for singles who have a pet and to whom dating other pet lovers is important. It is a part of the People Media family with all their might and facilities.
The site is easy to use. You can share entire albums of your dog’s pictures with potential matches and you can see other dog owners’ albums.
It is free to join, create a profile, and browse but a paid upgrade is required for extended profiles, messaging, and live chats.
Fetch a Date
The owner of this popular dog dating resource, Mrs. Sheryl Matthys, is sure that “finding a date with a fellow dog lover is a must!” Being the author of the best-selling book Leashes and Lovers: What Your Dog Can Teach You About Love, Life, and Happiness, Sheryl thinks that dogs “are the perfect icebreaker for people to connect for friendships and/or love”.
Fetch a Date website provides a lot of opportunities to find your match. You can even narrow down potential dates by the breed of dog. Like other sites, it is free for basic functions but for messaging and chats, it requires a paid membership that starts at $12.95 per month.
Part of this money is donated to animal shelters and organizations.
Match
There’s no need to specially introduce this giant oldtimer that calls itself "the number one destination for online dating". It’s not particularly a dog dating site but with its millions of members around the globe, it has more dog lovers all in one place than any other dating site.
At Match, they know very well that “people might let a cat or a dog influence the most important close relationship in their life” and that two-thirds of the site’s members “would judge their date based on how he or she responded to their own pet”.
Match makes it easy to find a potential partner in your area who shares your passion for dogs. Just look for “animal people personals” to make sure that all your matches are pet friendly and to use a specialized Animal People Personals (http://www.animalpeople.com/) resource.
Love Me Love My Pets
This U.K.-based pet dating site is completely free to use. You won’t be charged not only for registration but also for virtual winks, messages, and other things you need to establish and maintain your new romantic contacts. Instead of paying, though, you will have to see a lot of ads on this website’s pages, and it is sometimes getting annoying.
Love Me Love My Pets offers the option to password-protect your profile photo and it’s easy to quit the site anytime.
Dog Gone Singles
Temporarily not active
Dog Gone Singles is another free to use resource that gives you an opportunity to promote yourself, search for a partner, and communicate free of charge. A good thing about this dog dating site is that you can search for your matches by interest, so if you are into surfing with your dog you can find someone who is interested in doing it together. The bad thing, though, is that its members’ database is not large enough to find such a match.
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