Dr John Bradshaw: Why we love pets

Dr John Bradshaw: Why we love pets

How deep is our connection to our pets? This week we reveal how our relationship with animals is actually one of the very things that makes us human.

Published: November 23, 2017 at 12:00 am

Dr John Bradshaw, an anthrozoologist based at the University of Bristol, speaks to us about his new book,The Animals Among Us, which explores how deep our connection to our pets really goes, and reveals our relationship with animals is actually one of the very things that makes us human.

We also meet Dr Abigail Marsh, whowas 19 whena total stranger saved her life. Ever since then, Dr Marsh spent her career studying the psychology of those who help strangers. Shetalks to usabout her new bookGood For Nothing,which looks at the science of selfless acts

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