Dr Claire Brand (@clbrand.bsky.social)

What’s making life tough for owners of pandemic puppies? It’s not things that happened in 2020, but the dog’s unwanted behaviour that’s increasing the burden of dog ownership. New research from the wonderful Bree Merritt, part of the Pandemic Puppy team at RVC: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Lasting lockdown love? Problem behaviour and pandemic and non-pandemic related risk factors influencing the owner-dog relationship in a UK cohort of dogs reaching early adulthood The owner-dog relationship is a critical component of sustained dog ownership. Increased understanding of risk factors for weak owner-dog relationships can identify owner-dog dyads at higher risk of p... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0316166