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Dogs are helping their owners vote in the 'Brexit' referendum

It's the EU rufferendum!
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Rachel Thompson
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LONDON -- The European Union referendum is pretty serious. OK, it's very serious. 

Brits up and down the country are casting their votes to decide whether or not the United Kingdom should remain in the EU. It's a generation-defining decision that requires a great deal of careful consideration and -- erm -- moral support of the canine variety.

Brits are bringing their four-legged friends along to the polling stations, and it's the best thing we've ever seen.


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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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