Poll: Ontario, Canada, is worst for dogs

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A Canadian pollster said two-thirds of respondents in an online poll picked Ontario as the least dog-friendly province in the nation.

Sean Simpson, senior research manager for Ipsos Reid, said at least half of those polled June 10-14 in each province picked their own location as the most dog-friendly, complicating the results, Postmedia News reported Friday.

"The tendency is to say yours is the best," Simpson said.

However, he said a large portion of the 1,017 respondents agreed Ontario was the least dog-friendly.

"You had 13 possible choices -- all the provinces and territories," Simpson said. "And one-third picked Ontario as the worst. That's pretty strong."

Quebec was the second-least dog-friendly in the poll, with 18 percent of respondents naming it the worst.

The poll had a 3.1 percentage point margin of error, the pollster said.