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Children and their pets: Exploring the relationships between pet ownership, pet attitudes, attachment to pets and empathy

Joanne M. Williams, A.B. Lawrence, Janine Muldoon

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Animals play important roles in children's lives. Many children in the UK, and internationally, grow-up in households with companion animals. The most common family pets in the UK are dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, caged birds and fish. Kidd and Kidd (1985) found that 99.3% of 3 to 13 year-olds reported that they wanted a pet and 57% had a preference for dogs over other species. Children often consider pets to be members of their family (Morrow, 1998). Pet ownership confers a range of potential benefits for children's

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Animals play important roles in children's lives. Many children in the UK, and internationally, grow-up in households with companion animals. The most common family pets in the UK are dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, caged birds and fish. Kidd and Kidd (1985) found that 99.3% of 3 to 13 year-olds reported that they wanted a pet and 57% had a preference for dogs over other species. Children often consider pets to be members of their family (Morrow, 1998). Pet ownership confers a range of potential benefits for children's

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Animals play important roles in children's lives. Many children in the UK, and internationally, grow-up in households with companion animals. The most common family pets in the UK are dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, caged birds and fish. Kidd and Kidd (1985) found that 99.3% of 3 to 13 year-olds reported that they wanted a pet and 57% had a preference for dogs over other species. Children often consider pets to be members of their family (Morrow, 1998). Pet ownership confers a range of potential benefits for children's

Key concepts: Animal-assisted therapy, HUBzero, Empathy, Pet therapy, Animal welfare, Companion animal, Fish <Actinopterygii>, Psychology

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