The main themes identified through thematic analysis. (IMAGE)

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The main themes identified through thematic analysis.

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The main themes identified through thematic analysis, with percentages corresponding to the proportion of the overall participant sample to reference each theme as being important to building and maintaining human—dog bonds. Photo credit: Original photo by Kyle Mackie on Unsplash, reprinted here under a CC BY license.

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Riddoch et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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