Coping with the isolation, fear and sadness of the pandemic may have been a little easier if you had a trusting and loving dog by your side. Here's why:
But you don't need to tell that to Francois Martin, a researcher who studies the bonds between animals and humans. His two Great Danes helped him through the last two years, and he just completed a study that shows living with a dog gave folks a stronger sense of social support and eased some of the negative psychological effects of the pandemic.
His team saw the pandemic as a unique time to better understand how dogs provide social support to their owners.
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