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Nowadays, many people try to replicate a natural environment in their homes. In order to form intimate relationships with nature, many people try to incorporate natural entities in their homes. For this blog, we will be focusing on pet-keeping.
Pets may serve as companion animals and bring out positive aspects such as
- emotional bonds
- sense of compatibility and security
- desire to be together
- mental representation of the other and the relationship
There are 3 different kinds of attachment styles to pets:
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From the different attachment styles, conventional pets and pet owners usually display the humanistic and protectionistic relationship. However, raring exotic animals may give rise to a dominionistic relationship which will be explained in more details in the issue of exotic pets.