It’s an age-old question: are you a cat person or a dog person?
In East Asia, it seems more and more people these days are Team Cat.
Take Taiwan, the self-ruled island where pet cats outnumbered dogs for the first time in 2025, according to a government survey. The pet cat population has surged rapidly, from 1.3 million in 2023 to 1.7 million last year – an increase of nearly 33%.
The same thing happened in mainland China in 2021. Japan was perhaps the earliest originator of this trend, with cats overtaking dogs a decade ago. Even in places where dogs are still more common, like South Korea or Hong Kong, cats are growing in popularity.
All these places have certain factors in common: people living in small apartments in dense cities, often lonely, and working busy jobs that leave little time for a canine companion.
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