Human-pet bond strengthened by pandemic in U.S.

Restrictions on movement and socialization among people seems to have led to greater intimacy with those animals both less likely to spread the virus and sharing living quarters with quarantined Homo sapiens.

The human-pet bond may have strengthened measurably during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a survey, American Pet Product Association (APPA) analysts studied how the attitudes of pet owners in the United States had changed as a result of the pandemic. Restrictions on movement and socialization among people…

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