{"title":"A dog is for life, not just for Christmas","authors":"Rebecca Saunders","doi":"10.12968/coan.2023.0066","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It is believed that over a third of UK households now have a pet dog, and a Dogs Trust study found that dogs are not only considered as companion animals or pets but are also often perceived as family members who ‘complete’ the home and with whom owners form emotional bonds.","PeriodicalId":10606,"journal":{"name":"Companion Animal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Companion Animal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12968/coan.2023.0066","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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It is believed that over a third of UK households now have a pet dog, and a Dogs Trust study found that dogs are not only considered as companion animals or pets but are also often perceived as family members who ‘complete’ the home and with whom owners form emotional bonds.