Dogs can help you live a longer, better life!
That’s because they can help treat health problems! Let’s look at the statistics:
- According to a study conducted by the people at the University of Manchester in the UK, half of 60% of people confirmed that pets can help with PTSD, anxiety, and other mental health problems
- With a dog around, 54% of adults are more likely to get the recommended physical activity. Arthritis, cardiovascular diseases, and risks involved with a sedentary lifestyle? Less likely to be problems
- With a four-legged companion, people with physical and visual impairments have a 33% higher mortality rate
And according to a study published in Scientific Reports, dogs can sniff out cancers, an incoming seizure, and other internal health concerns!
Want to visit "the cool kids"?
As the record on Worldwide Pet Ownership shows, there are millions of dogs around the world. In the US, for one, 69,000,000 million dogs exist.
And guess what? That number only covers the dogs that were reported by their owners.
Stray dogs -- and there are a lot of them -- are not included!
Now, do you want to learn more about the dogs out there? Remember, each one has a story to tell!
Dogs versus hoomans
Dogs = 125 to 300 million scent glands
Hoomans = 5 million scent glands
Score? It's a landslide win!
Dogs 1, Hoomans 0
Fun Fact #1:
Need an explanation about a dog’s night vision superpower?
It’s their whiskers — their whiskers help them see better at night. These features can pick up the subtlest changes in air current.
The result? Dogs receive information such as the shape, size, and speed of things in their environment.
Fun fact #2:
Dogs have 4x better hearing skills.
Dogs can tilt, rotate, lower — and do more — with their ears. That’s because they have about 18 muscles in each ear.
And thanks to the muscles in their ears, they can detect a frequency range of 67 to 45,000 hertz and hear high-pitched sounds.
Dogs are amazing, right?
They help keep us healthy, they're winners, and they're fun to be with. That's not even all there is to it!
So are you in the mood to check out some dogs?
