Dog ownership enhances anchored personal relationships and sense of community: A comparison with incidental interactions and friendships (IMAGE)

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Dog ownership enhances anchored personal relationships and sense of community: A comparison with incidental interactions and friendships

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Dog ownership is associated with a stronger sense of community, likely in part because it fosters neighborhood-based connections, per Japanese study.

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Alan Wang, Pexels, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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