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‘Now people stop to ask their names and even stroke them’: Nigerians embrace dogs as pets

Jackie Idimogu, an anti-animal cruelty campaigner and founder of My Dog and I, poses with her pets in Lekki, just outside Lagos. She says trying to shift Nigerians’ attitudes to dogs is ‘about progress, not rejection’ of tradition. Photograph: Sogo Oladele/The Guardian Jackie Idimogu, an anti-animal cruelty campaigner and founder of My Dog and I, […]

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