{"id":2900,"date":"2025-06-25T14:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/many-brits-pull-sickies-to-look-after-their-dogs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:09:31","slug":"many-brits-pull-sickies-to-look-after-their-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/many-brits-pull-sickies-to-look-after-their-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Brits pull sickies to look after their dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-25 14:09:29<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Many Brits pull sickies so they can look after their poorly dogs.<BR><br \/>\nIn total, 16 per cent admitted they lied to their boss so they could take the day off, a study by Tails.com revealed.<BR><br \/>\nAn average of eight days are taken off per year by 72 per cent of Brits, so they can take care of their pooches.<BR><br \/>\nAs a result, this reportedly costs the UK economy \u00a313.8 billion a year.<BR><br \/>\nMeanwhile, 52 per cent of Brits said they care more about their pets&#8217; health, rather than that of their partners.<BR><br \/>\nDoctor Sean McCormack, from Tails.com, is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: &#8220;Apart from the economic impact, sick days are really stressful and tough to deal with for dogs and their owners.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Anything we can do to help limit sick days is hugely beneficial.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-25 14:09:29 Many Brits pull sickies so they can look after their poorly dogs. In total, 16 per cent admitted they lied to their boss so they could take the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}