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> 青森県鰺ヶ沢町の店にいる雄の犬の「わさお」は、１０年前にインターネットで紹介されて、ライオンのように長い毛と小さな目がかわいい **と**
> 人気になりました。  
>  Wasao, a male dog in a shop in xxx was shown on the internet ten years ago
> and, _with_ cute lion-like fur and small eyes, became popular.

I can't work out the grammatical function of と (in bold) in this sentence. The
only と I know that can come after an i-adjective is either the conditional or
the quotative. The conditional certainly doesn't make sense to me.

My only guess is that this is quotative with a missing verb. I was thinking
maybe I could insert 思われて after と. But I fear I may be way off here.
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grammar particle-と
Function of と in Xと人気になる
It literally means people praised it, saying (/thinking that) its long (lion-
like) fur and small eyes were cute. In this context と simply indicates that
whatever precedes it is the words of a specific person, an opinion of some
people in general, etc. So yes, you could think of it as a 'quotation
particle'.

Another example of how you could use it is 「簡単にはやられまいと、決死の覚悟で応戦する」. It's used
as if the 「簡単にはやられまい」was a quote, even though it might actually only indicate
a person's thoughts, beliefs, or something to that effect.
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