A Majority of Canine Injuries Occur on the Weekend – Here’s the Reason Why

After running this site for over a year now, I’ve heard many stories, some good, some sad, but they’ve all had one thing in common – everyone absolutely loves their dog. This post isn’t necessary going to be helpful, but it is certainly interesting.

As I’ve been maintaining and trying to grow this site to make it as helpful as possible for people who are looking for information on dog knee injuries, I’ve also paid close attention to our web traffic. I use Google Analytics so that I can see where the visitors of this site come from (Google, Yahoo, etc) and how many users are visiting, etc. The interesting part is in the traffic spikes that the site sees on Mondays, and to be honest, it makes a ton of sense. Take a look at the following graph that shows visits to this site, and then take a look at the list of assumptions I’ve written down below. And after doing that, leave a comment and let us know what day of the week your dog was injured on (just because I’m curious to find out).

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Here are the things we can assume:

1. People who visit this site are dog owners.
2. Dog owners are typically active people.
3. Dog owners are likely not sitting inside on their computers on the weekends.
4. Dog owners are most likely out on weekends, running, hiking and playing with their pets.
5. Since dogs and their owners have a tendency to be more active on the weekends, there will be more cranial cruciate ligament injuries in dogs on the weekends than during the week.

Image by Flickr user rpb1001.

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