Re:Dog Ownership and Survival
by ohduran on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @05:43AM
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Disagree. I would spend all my afternoons indoors unless I had a dog. Having to walk it no less than half an hour a day means I'm forced to do some sort of exercise that I wouldn't do otherwise.
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Yes okay, but the magic bullet here isn't the dog its the means to have an animal who gets you out of the house and walking.
Good point! So, in reality, it isn't the dog, it's what you do when you're a dog owner. I think that's why they phrased the paper with "dog ownership", implying that the main condition for improved health isn't the dog itself, but your routines as owner of one.