Fig. 3: Online users’ visits in the Israeli Yad4 website, and worldwide Google searches, for adoptable dogs before and during COVID-19 pandemic.
From: Human–dog relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: booming dog adoption during social isolation
a The daily numbers of visitors on Yad4.co.il, the Israeli adoption search engine, from January 2016 to May 2020. b Zoom-in on the same data as in panel a during COVID-19 pandemic, from November 2019 to May 2020. c Results of the Linear Regressions model for Yad4 online visits, in each period during the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to before the pandemic. In these models, the predictors were: the different periods, from the outbreak in China to outbreak in Israel, the developments in Israel until full lockdown, full lockdown, and gradual opening; each period was compared to the period prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (from 2016 until the outbreak in China, represented by the horizontal dotted line); controlled for: year, month, and governmental initiatives for dog adoption on 2019. d The weekly trends of Google searches for “adopt a dog” are presented from November 2019. e Zoom-in on the same data as in panel d, during COVID-19 pandemic. Both worldwide searches (orange) and USA searches (blue) are presented. f Results of the Linear Regressions model for global searches for adoptable dogs. In this model, the predictors were: the different periods, from the outbreak in China to the declaration of the World Health Organization on Europe as the epicenter of the pandemic, during the time most of the world was under restricted social isolation, and the gradual opening on May 2020. Each period was compared to the period from January 2019 to the outbreak in China (represented by the horizontal dotted line); controlled for: year and month. In panels c and f, data are presented as coefficients (large dots) and its 95% confidence interval (bars); P < 0.05.
