Despite its large pet-owning population, Houston didn’t rank highly among the nation’s most pet-friendly places, landing outside the top 50 of the 100 largest U.S. cities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Overall, the city claimed spot No. 51, with a combined score of 50.59.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The study evaluated cities across three categories: pet budget (25 points), pet health and wellness (50 points) and outdoor pet-friendliness (25 points). The pet budget considered costs such as veterinary care and dog insurance, while the health and wellness category factored in the number of dog-friendly restaurants, pet meetup groups, trainers and other amenities. Outdoor pet-friendliness (an area where Houston noticeably struggled) measured factors including walkability, weather and the number of dog parks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Houston performed best in the pet budget category, ranking 42nd. The city slipped to 54th for pet health and wellness before falling to 61st for outdoor pet-friendliness.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A number of Texas cities beat out Houston in their pet-friendly ranking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, several other Texas cities also fared worse than H-town.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite its large pet-owning population, Houston didn’t rank highly among the nation’s most pet-friendly places, landing outside the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1836,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-401573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}