Call to Action: Need for Data on Diverse Dog Owners
Virginia Tech's Audrey Ruple and Courtney Sexton, already deeply involved in data collection and analysis for dog health and connections to humans
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Virginia Tech's Audrey Ruple and Courtney Sexton, already deeply involved in data collection and analysis for dog health and connections to humans
Virginia Tech's Audrey Ruple and Courtney Sexton, already deeply involved in data collection and analysis for dog health and connections to humans through the Dog Aging Project, are imploring fellow scientists to cast the net even wider for data on the shared environments of humans and dogs in a perspective piece that appears this month in the journal Science.
Illness, disease and quality of life are linked with euthanasia more so than age, Dog Aging Project research finds.
Until now, it's been widely believed that purebreeds are more prone to health conditions than mixed breeds. However, researchers from Texas A&M University have finally debunked this myth.
A survey of more than 27,000 dogs in the Dog Aging Project has found that the most common reasons for visits to the vet have little to do with breed.