Babies Are Healthier With a Dog at Home1

• Dogs & Emotions, Health & Medicine
• July 9, 2012

New research published in Pediatrics suggests that children living with a dog are significantly healthier than those living without it. The researchers followed up 397 Finnish children, asking their parents to fill in weekly questionnaires about their health until they were 1 year old. Scientists believe that this is so because dog contact helps the