Animals are an integral part of our society.
This paper describes the results of a survey on 88 young people, of whom all but 4 are university students at the University of Tsukuba. The attitudes that young people in Japan have towards animals is important for the future of animals and their conservation. The first part of the questionnaire focused on pet animals. The results are shown in Table 1. We even had some people say they had a goat, or a squirrel or mole.