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A surprising new study found that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep.

And we feel safer sleeping with our dogs, hinting at “a deeper evolutionary history” between humans and dogs, said study co-author Ming Fei Li, who was a graduate student of evolutionary anthropology during the research.

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[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Woke up to my dog doing his “hey!…hey!…” complaining noise this morning to look over and see that my husband had rolled into his back on top of the dog and the dog was stuck under his shoulder, so I guess it works for him at least