A new study shows owners who experience long-term stress and anxiety can pass it on to their dogs.
Dogs are quite good at understanding humans. They’re definitely better at understanding us than we are at understanding them.” – Lina Roth, Zoologist
Source: National Geographic, June 6, 2019. Link.
Roth found no evidence that anxious dogs created nervous owners.
INSIGHTS: This is good information to know and share as behavior becomes a bigger component of managing the human-animal bond.