The feeling isn’t mutual Credit: Shutterstock/Sviatlana Yankouskaya
Dog owners tend to overestimate the bond they have with their pet, which could have implications for preventing dogs from roaming far from home or attacking animals.
鈥淎s caregivers, we need to聽develop better bonds with our聽dogs, not only for our own well-being and the dog鈥檚 well-being, but also for nature,鈥 says Lorena Saavedra-Aracena at the University of Magallanes, Chile.
Previous research has shown that unsterilised male dogs and undernourished dogs tend to roam longer distances, but this isn鈥檛 always the case. Saavedra-Aracena wondered if the dogs鈥 attachment to their caregivers…
