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Word of the Day: Lapdog
Over the last few years, the popularity of small pets in Japan, such as lapdogs, has boomed.
Many people get a pet as a companion animal.
If you’re an empty nester, your children have moved out and started a family, and your home is empty and quiet.
What better way to fill it up again than with a pet?
Now, because many people in cities live in smaller apartments, they do not have the space for a large Newfoundland dog or an Irish wolfhound.
This means that many pet dogs in Japan are cute little lapdogs, such as a Papillon, which can fit on your lap.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 73.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.