{"id":3268,"date":"2014-08-13T22:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T22:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/elation-for-pet-lovers-long-beach-in-the-top-20-best-cities-in-the-nation-for-pet-lovers\/"},"modified":"2014-08-13T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T22:54:16","slug":"elation-for-pet-lovers-long-beach-in-the-top-20-best-cities-in-the-nation-for-pet-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/elation-for-pet-lovers-long-beach-in-the-top-20-best-cities-in-the-nation-for-pet-lovers","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach in the Top 20 Best Cities in the Nation for Pet Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-30041\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/petloves-top20.png\" alt=\"petloves-top20\" width=\"620\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Kate Karp.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In yet another consumer-oriented organization\u2019s rankings, Long Beach has been named #19 out of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-and-worst-cities-for-pet-lovers\/5562\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the top 20 cities for pet lovers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WalletHub, the financial site dedicated to informing consumers and small businesses on everything from financial decisions to job markets, has created its latest listicle aimed at pitting cities against one another in a best-of\/worst-of battle. In this case, the cities best fit for pet lovers\u2014and considering an estimated 68% of Americans own a pet, this list is one that appeals to the masses.<\/p>\n<p>Using 14 measures\u2014Veterinary Care Costs, Minimum Pet Care Provider Rate per Visit, Dog Insurance Premium, Number of Veterinarians per Capita, Number of Pet Caretakers per Capita, Number of Pet Businesses per Capita, Pet Friendly Restaurants per Capita, Percent of Pet Friendly Hotels, Pet Meet-up Groups, Average Home Square Feet, Weather Conditions, Dog Parks per Capita, Walk Score and Pet Friendly Trails\u2014WalletHub ranked the 100 largest cities in the States.<\/p>\n<p> <center> <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/d2e70e9yced57e.cloudfront.net\/common\/wallethub\/best-and-worst-cities-for-pet-lovers-geochart.html\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" seamless=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <\/center> <\/p>\n<p>Helping Long Beach scratch out its top 20 space was the amount of pet friendly restaurants we have, our walk score, and the number of pet caretakers the city is home to.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting at No. 1 was Cincinnati; No. 2 Las Vegas; and No. 3 Scottsdale, AZ. Other Californian cities joining Long Beach in the top 20 included Irvine (No. 4), Sacramento (No. 5), and Riverside (No. 17). Our neighbor to the north, Los Angeles, sat at a distant No. 83.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 88.6875px; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/long-beach-named-a-top-10-city-in-the-nation-to-celebrate-july-4th\/#.U-vrpIBdWjQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Long Beach Named a Top 10 City in the Nation to Celebrate July 4th<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #79b2ce;\" href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/lgbtq\/long-beach-named-5th-most-lgbt-friendly-city-in-the-nation\/#.U6m-I41dWjQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Long Beach Named 5th Most LGBT-Friendly City in the Nation<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #79b2ce;\" href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/long-beach-worst-city-for-jobs-in-nation-not-quite-that-would-be-los-angeles\/#.U6m-e41dWjQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Long Beach Worst City in Nation for Jobs? Not Quite: That Would Be Los Angeles<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #79b2ce;\" href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/long-beach-ranked-in-top-10-best-cities-to-live-in-if-you-re-under-35\/#.U4TLNJRdVNs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Long Beach Ranked As Top 10 Best City to Live in if You&#8217;re Under 35<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another consumer-oriented organization\u2019s rankings, Long Beach has been named #19 out of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-and-worst-cities-for-pet-lovers\/5562\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the top 20 cities for pet lovers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":68534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-rankings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}