New research from the Dog Aging Project has found five key factors that can affect a dog's health, including the time they spend with other animals.
last month in the journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. It focused on finding the aspects of a dog’s home environment that werethrough survey data from over 21,000 owners.
All in all, the researchers identified five factors that seemed to have the greatest impact on canine health after accounting for variables like a dog’s age and size. Collectively, they amounted to about 33% of the variation in a dog’s social environment. These factors were neighborhood stability, total household income, the owner’s age, social time spent with children, and social time spent with other animals.
of these factors weren’t all equal. Social support was estimated to have an effect on health five times greater than financial factors, for instance. “This does show that, like many social animals—including humans, having more social companions can be really important for the dog’s health,” said study author Bri McCoy, a graduate student at Arizona State University, in a statement released by the university.There were some surprising results from the study as well. Dogs living in richer households tended to be diagnosed with more diseases than others, though that might only indicate that these dogs are more regularly taken to the vet.
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