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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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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

Well nobody has mentioned that dogs smell like tostito corn chips. That's not a smell I want on my couch where my wife lets me sleep.