{"id":379,"date":"2009-03-15T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifedog.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2009-03-21T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T20:08:53","slug":"finally-a-good-book-about-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/a-dogs-life\/finally-a-good-book-about-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally — somebody gets it right about dogs."},"content":{"rendered":"

Cathy skimmed through Made For Each Other: The Biology of the Human–Animal Bond,<\/a> by Meg Daley Olmert. She didn’t get into all the details about oxytocin.<\/p>\n

But here’s what she read to me (p. 212):\"\"<\/a>
\n“In 1995 Friedmann (a researcher at U of Maryland) …found that dog ownership was the big survival factor in the first year following a heart attack. Of the eighty-seven subjects who owned dogs, only three died; nineteen of the non-dog owning patients did. When weighed aginst the other top survival factors (strengths of heart, absence of diabetes, and regularity of heartbeat), owning a dog gave a heart attack victim a significantly greater chance of being alive one year later<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Yaay! See, I’m not just a cute accessory.<\/p>\n

Of course, my mom pointed out, people who own dogs tend to live in places where they have more control over their lives. Maybe that’s the reason.<\/p>\n

But no. Another study randomly gave dogs to stressed-out stockbrokers. Those who got dogs were healthier and reported fewer stress symptoms than the non-dog group, my mom said.<\/p>\n

Well, I’m<\/em> certainly not stressed. Come on, mom: stop reading about all this stuff and let’s get some sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cathy skimmed through Made For Each Other: The Biology of the Human–Animal Bond, by Meg Daley Olmert. She didn’t get into all the details about oxytocin. But here’s what she read to me (p. 212): “In 1995 Friedmann (a researcher at U of Maryland) …found that dog ownership was the big survival factor in the … Continue reading Finally — somebody gets it right about dogs.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifedog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}