Childhood Attachment to Pets: Associations between Pet Attachment, Attitudes to Animals, Compassion, and Humane Behaviour

Hawkins, Roxanne; Williams, Joanne

doi:10.3390/ijerph14050490

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“…The most common children's pets are dogs and cats [31]. Children show strong attachments to pets and many consider pets their best friends [3,32,33]. Pets make children happy, reduce their loneliness, help to calm them [32] and increase their self-confidence [34].…”

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“…Children show strong attachments to pets and many consider pets their best friends [3,32,33]. Pets make children happy, reduce their loneliness, help to calm them [32] and increase their self-confidence [34]. Relationships between children and pets can be especially crucial for children lacking a stable or secure bond with their caregivers [35].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research has shown that children who care for pets themselves feel more connected to them than children that share the responsibility for a pet with other family members [32]. Muldoon, Williams, and Currie [37] studied types of attachment to pets in groups of eleven-, thirteen-, and fifteen-year-olds.…”

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Students’ Care for Dogs, Environmental Attitudes, and Behaviour

2020

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Does the act of caring for a dog have a substantial connection to the environmental values and behaviours of children? The scientific current literature contains little empirical research regarding the effect of pet ownership on environmental attitudes and behaviours in children. The Two Factor Model of Environmental Values (2-MEV) scale and the General Ecological Behaviour (GEB) scale were applied to measure environmental attitudes/values and ecological behaviours aligned with the Children's Care for Dogs Questionnaire (CTDQ) to measure individual care for dogs.The subjects were Slovenian adolescents in primary education and lower secondary education. A clear relationship emerged: students that reported a better level of care for their pet dogs tended to engage in more environmentally responsible behaviours. Preservation and utilization attitudes had no significant influence on caring for a dog. Female students tended to report better care for dogs and practiced environmental behaviour more often. Younger students scored higher on the preservation values and practiced environmental behaviour more often. Overall, this study provides an evidence-based framework for educational initiatives that aim to include long-term care for animals. This study proposes a method with which educational programs could achieve the goal of fostering environmental behaviours.

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Students’ Care for Dogs, Environmental Attitudes, and Behaviour

2020

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“…Children who live with companion animals say that their animal companions make them happy, they love the animals, and the animals are their best friends (Hawkins & Williams 2017). This all indicates that children who spend quality time with animals almost always form deep emotional attachments to them (Hawkins & Williams 2017). As Paul McCartney might put it, if slaughterhouses had glass walls, all children would be vegan.…”

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Meat Eating and Moral Responsibility: Exploring the Moral Distinctions between Meat Eaters and Puppy Torturers

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2020

Utilitas

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In his influential article on the ethics of eating animals, Alastair Norcross argues that consumers of factory raised meat and puppy torturers are equally condemnable because both knowingly cause serious harm to sentient creatures just for trivial pleasures. Against this claim, I argue that those who buy and consume factory raised meat, even those who do so knowing that they cause harm, have a partial excuse for their wrongdoings. Meat eaters act under social duress, which causes volitional impairment, and they often act from deeply ingrained habits, which causes epistemic impairment. But puppy torturers act against cultural norms and habits, consciously choosing to perform wrongful acts. Consequently, the average consumer of factory raised meat has, while puppy torturers lack, a cultural excuse. But although consumers of factory raised meat aren't blameworthy, they are partially morally responsible for their harmful behavior-and for this, they should feel regret, remorse, and shame.

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“…These include survivors of domestic violence, forced to flee their home and abandon animals (Dogs Trust’s Freedom Project - https://www.dogstrust.org.uk/help-advice/hope-project-freedom-project/freedom-project), children in care separated from companion animals – Roxanne Hawkins et al (2017), “Childhood Attachment to Pets: Associations between Pet Attachment, Attitudes to Animals, Compassion, and Humane Behaviour” Int. J. Environ.…”

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No pets allowed? Companion animals, older people and residential care

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2019

Med Humanities

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This article is concerned with a particular site of inter-species relationships. Using the lens of liminality, it examines forced separation of older people from their companion animals when they move to a residential or nursing home in the UK. Such residential spaces frequently either exclude companion animals or fail to make adequate provision for them to accompany their human caretakers. We see such separation as a major bereavement for an older person at a stage of life when they experience significant other losses, and suggest it is often experienced as akin to the loss of a family member. We deploy vulnerability theory to argue that exclusion of companion animals from care spaces exemplifies a failure to understand the relational vulnerabilities of older age and the significance of animal companionship in mitigating those vulnerabilities. Equally, such separation fails to recognise the implications for excluded animals who can end up in unsuitable homes, being signed over to already over-stretched animal rescues or euthanised. Vulnerability theory highlights how companion species are always already vulnerable, given their liminal position between person and property, while older people are rendered particularly vulnerable in the ‘liminal zone’ of the care home, denied the ability to shape their environment, control their private space or form/sustain relationships of their own choosing. This article explores the potential of law to respond to and mitigate these shared vulnerabilities, suggesting that human rights arguments grounded in shared vulnerability may be invoked to argue for a re-definition of the family to recognise the significance of the human–animal relationship. We draw on the reasoning in a recent Court of Protection case which hints at law’s ability to recognise the value of interspecies relations and their role in sustaining health and well-being, and the ability to live well in old age.

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Childhood Attachment to Pets: Associations between Pet Attachment, Attitudes to Animals, Compassion, and Humane Behaviour

Cited by 102 publications

References 79 publications

Students’ Care for Dogs, Environmental Attitudes, and Behaviour

Students’ Care for Dogs, Environmental Attitudes, and Behaviour

Meat Eating and Moral Responsibility: Exploring the Moral Distinctions between Meat Eaters and Puppy Torturers

No pets allowed? Companion animals, older people and residential care

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