'I learn each day.' The informational lifeworld of dog and cat guardians in New Zealand

Recognising the importance of information in understanding and living with companion animals, this paper investigates cat dog guardians’ opinions on how they learn new things update themselves. It identifies a range information, practices, contexts within their everyday life. An anonymous online survey consisting close-ended open-ended questions was distributed to guardians New Zealand between October December 2021. Response frequencies descriptive statistics quantitative data were generated. The qualitative open-coded an experience lens identify categories forms practices. uantitative indicate personal experiences memories (75%), casual conversations other (73%) as most common resources for learning, after experts (e.g. veterinarians) (93%). Qualitative analysis categorized these two main themes external internal information. External consisted social verbal nonverbal communication humans recorded digital physical mediums, embedded held artifacts animals’ body. Internal related memory knowledge (cognitive information), values emotions (affective bodily feelings subjective interpretation senses (embodied information). informational lifeworld participants made interactions values, which appears interwoven concepts daily lives dogs cats.