Class pets as 'dependents' to allow owners to take leave for medical treatment.

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Popularity

This petition has 2,226 signatures in total, with signatories from 573 constituencies. That makes it the 4,617th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 56% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 37% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 30 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 20 - Aberdeen North
• 19 - Truro and Falmouth
• 19 - Gordon
• 16 - Banff and Buchan
• 14 - Ashford
• 14 - St Austell and Newquay
• 13 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 13 - Louth and Horncastle
• 13 - Eastleigh
• 13 - Stockport
• 11 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 11 - Newbury
• 11 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 11 - Falkirk
• 11 - Camborne and Redruth
• 11 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 10 - Torridge and West Devon
• 10 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 10 - St Ives
• 10 - Stretford and Urmston
• 10 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 10 - North West Hampshire
• 10 - Makerfield
• 9 - Isle of Wight
• 9 - Alyn and Deeside
• 9 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 9 - Amber Valley
• 9 - Eddisbury
• 8 - South Cambridgeshire
• 8 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 8 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 8 - Corby
• 8 - Bridgend
• 8 - Mid Sussex
• 8 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 8 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 8 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 8 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 8 - Southampton, Itchen
• 8 - Meriden
• 8 - South Northamptonshire
• 8 - Broxtowe
• 7 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 7 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 7 - Wigan
• 7 - Kingswood
• 7 - Chippenham
• 7 - Salford and Eccles
• 7 - Colchester
• 7 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 7 - South Leicestershire
• 7 - Leigh
• 7 - Oldham West and Royton
• 7 - Edinburgh South
• 7 - Rochester and Strood
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• 7 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 7 - Meon Valley
• 7 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 7 - Beverley and Holderness
• 7 - North East Bedfordshire
• 7 - Denton and Reddish
• 6 - South Norfolk
• 6 - Waveney
• 6 - Lincoln
• 6 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 6 - Central Devon
• 6 - Monmouth
• 6 - Leeds Central
• 6 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 6 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 6 - Hazel Grove
• 6 - Havant
• 6 - St Helens North
• 6 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 6 - Tewkesbury
• 6 - East Dunbartonshire
• 6 - Edinburgh South West
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• 6 - Hemel Hempstead
• 6 - Devizes
• 6 - Derby North
• 6 - Kettering
• 6 - Keighley
• 6 - Clwyd South
• 6 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 6 - Coventry North West
• 6 - Huddersfield
• 6 - High Peak
• 6 - Doncaster North
• 6 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 6 - Gedling
• 6 - Buckingham
• 6 - Arundel and South Downs
• 6 - North East Hertfordshire
• 6 - Yeovil
• 6 - Bristol North West
• 6 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 6 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 6 - North West Durham
• 6 - New Forest West
• 6 - Torfaen
• 6 - Blyth Valley
• 6 - North East Somerset
• 6 - Shipley
• 6 - Weaver Vale
• 6 - Sheffield South East
• 6 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 6 - Bury St Edmunds
• 6 - North Swindon
• 5 - Halton
• 5 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 5 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
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• 5 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 5 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 5 - Tiverton and Honiton
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• 5 - Worthing West
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• 5 - Forest of Dean
• 5 - Airdrie and Shotts
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• 5 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 5 - Aberdeen South
• 5 - Stroud
• 5 - Glasgow South
• 5 - Edinburgh East
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• 5 - Tatton
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• 5 - Norwich North
• 5 - Bassetlaw
• 5 - East Lothian
• 5 - Wyre Forest
• 5 - Gainsborough
• 5 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 5 - Hyndburn
• 5 - Braintree
• 5 - Congleton
• 5 - Bolsover
• 5 - Winchester
• 5 - Mid Norfolk
• 5 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 5 - Bosworth
• 5 - North Dorset
• 5 - Wealden
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• 5 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 5 - Lichfield
• 5 - Wells
• 5 - Rushcliffe
• 5 - Bristol East
• 5 - Weston-super-Mare
• 4 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 4 - Glenrothes
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• 4 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 4 - Glasgow Central
• 4 - Southampton, Test
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• 4 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
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• 4 - Leeds North East
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• 4 - Heywood and Middleton
• 4 - Hertsmere
• 4 - Harwich and North Essex
• 4 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 4 - Sefton Central
• 4 - Motherwell and Wishaw
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• 4 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 4 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 4 - New Forest East
• 4 - Rochford and Southend East
• 4 - Southport
• 4 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 4 - South West Surrey
• 4 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 4 - Dudley South
• 4 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 4 - Dundee East
• 4 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 4 - Wolverhampton South West
• 4 - Cheadle
• 4 - Thornbury and Yate
• 4 - Bexhill and Battle
• 4 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 4 - West Suffolk
• 4 - Bury South
• 4 - Warwick and Leamington
• 4 - Wansbeck
• 4 - Copeland
• 4 - Bootle
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• 4 - Chorley
• 4 - Chatham and Aylesford
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• 4 - Dover
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• 4 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 4 - Ashfield
• 4 - Argyll and Bute
• 4 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 4 - Eltham
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• 4 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
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• 4 - Stone
• 4 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
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• 4 - Ceredigion
• 4 - Batley and Spen
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• 4 - Cambridge
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• 4 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 3 - Sevenoaks
• 3 - Morley and Outwood
• 3 - The Cotswolds
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• 3 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 3 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 3 - Plymouth, Moor View
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• 3 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 3 - Reigate
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• 3 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 3 - Pudsey
• 3 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 3 - Ynys Môn
• 3 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 3 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 3 - North East Fife
• 3 - Bradford South
• 3 - Bracknell
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• 3 - Windsor
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• 3 - Blaenau Gwent
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• 3 - Llanelli
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• 3 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 3 - Great Yarmouth
• 3 - East Renfrewshire
• 3 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 3 - Hastings and Rye
• 3 - Don Valley
• 3 - Doncaster Central
• 3 - Hemsworth
• 3 - Daventry
• 3 - Ipswich
• 3 - South Suffolk
• 3 - Warrington North
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• 3 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
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• 3 - Castle Point
• 3 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
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• 3 - Vale of Glamorgan
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• 3 - South Staffordshire
• 3 - Kingston upon Hull East
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• 3 - Enfield North
• 2 - Redditch
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• 2 - Wyre and Preston North
• 2 - Stourbridge
• 2 - York Central
• 2 - Preston
• 2 - Stockton North
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• 2 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 2 - Swansea East
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• 2 - Vale of Clwyd
• 2 - Scunthorpe
• 2 - Wallasey
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• 2 - Wolverhampton South East
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• 2 - Rugby
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• 2 - Witham
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• 2 - Aberavon
• 2 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
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• 2 - Lewisham, Deptford
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• 2 - Islwyn
• 2 - Hove
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• 2 - North Down
• 1 - Cardiff West
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• 1 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 1 - Bath
• 1 - Wrexham
• 1 - Barnsley East
• 1 - Penrith and The Border
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
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• 1 - Blackpool South
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• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - Richmond Park
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• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 1 - West Worcestershire
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• 1 - York Outer
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
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• 1 - South West Norfolk
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• 1 - Mid Derbyshire
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• 1 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
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• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - Leeds East
• 1 - Lagan Valley
• 1 - Kensington
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• 1 - South Ribble
• 1 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 1 - Halifax
• 1 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
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• 1 - East Antrim
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• 1 - Dunfermline and West Fife
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• 1 - Neath
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• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Stratford-on-Avon
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• 1 - Sunderland Central
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• 1 - Sutton Coldfield
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Signatures by Region

• 315 - South East
• 305 - North West
• 298 - Scotland
• 243 - South West
• 195 - East of England
• 195 - West Midlands
• 173 - East Midlands
• 156 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 99 - London
• 91 - Wales
• 80 - North East
• 8 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 2,216 - United Kingdom
• 5 - Ireland
• 3 - Australia
• 1 - Belgium
• 1 - South Africa