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Poll: People like a pet to confide in

LOS ANGELES - Husbands, if you end up in the doghouse, consider it a promotion. A third of pet-owning married women said that their pets are better listeners than their husbands, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll released yesterday. Eighteen percent of pet-owning married men said that their pets are better listeners than their wives.

LOS ANGELES - Husbands, if you end up in the doghouse, consider it a promotion.

A third of pet-owning married women said that their pets are better listeners than their husbands, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll released yesterday. Eighteen percent of pet-owning married men said that their pets are better listeners than their wives.

Overall, about one in 10 pet owners said that they would talk their troubles over with their pets.

The AP-Petside.com poll also found that most people believe that their pets are stable and seldom struggle with depression.

Just 5 percent of all pet owners said that they had taken an animal to a veterinarian or pet psychologist because it seemed down in the dumps. Even fewer said they'd ever given antidepressants to a pet.