Your Dog Is Secretly Making Your Neighborhood Friendlier According to New Research
You already know your dog makes your life better. Morning walks feel calmer, bad days feel shorter, and coming home is always a little happier. Now research suggests your dog may also be making your entire neighborhood feel more connected.
Owning a dog is influenced by our genetic make-up
A team of Swedish and British scientists have studied the heritability of dog ownership using information from 35,035 twin pairs from the Swedish Twin Registry. The new study suggests that genetic variation explains more than half of the variation in dog ownership, implying that the choice of getting a dog is heavily influenced by an individual's genetic make-up.
