A pet‘s status in a family may be predisposed by where the owners live, new investigate suggests.
People who look upon pets as children tend to have a city background, for example, while those in country areas have a more practical attitude, said study author David Blouin, of Indiana University.
“To think of pets as just another animal is not unusual in rural areas, which makes sense given the utilitarian relationships people in rural areas are more likely to have with a range of different animals — from farm to wild animals,” Blouin, an helper professor in the sociology and anthropology department at Indiana University South Bend, said in an American Sociological Association news release. He also establish that pets often lose their status as “children” when owners start having children.
“If you have kids, you have less time to use with your pets. That’s part of it, but not the whole story. People who think of their pets as their children often reconsider this thought when they have human children of their own,” Blouin said.

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