I Walk My Dog Because It Makes Me Happy: A Qualitative Study to Understand Why Dogs Motivate Walking and Improved Health

Carri Westgarth, Robert Christley, Garry Marvin, Elizabeth Perkins

doi:10.3390/ijerph14080936

I Walk My Dog Because It Makes Me Happy: A Qualitative Study to Understand Why Dogs Motivate Walking and Improved Health

Carri Westgarth, Robert Christley, Garry Marvin, Elizabeth Perkins

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© 2017 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1 - 18
Number of pages	18
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume	14
Issue number	196
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14080936
Publication status	Published - 19 Aug 2017

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I Walk My Dog Because It Makes Me Happy: A Qualitative Study to Understand Why Dogs Motivate Walking and Improved Health. / Carri Westgarth, Robert Christley, Garry Marvin, Elizabeth Perkins.
In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 14, No. 196, 19.08.2017, p. 1 - 18.

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