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Swedish Data says Get a Hunting Dog Can the Breed of your dog change your own expected life longevity? Does some data recently published out of Sweden indicate that you need a Hunting Dog? Please send comments to: comments@usc.life The aim of the study* published in Scientific Reports was "to investigate the association of dog ownership with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death". The evidence collected on dog ownership and death was then also actually associated with a change in all causes of death and related to variation of the Breed Group of the dog. So they started with 339 Breeds and put them into 10 groups. (Sorry if this debate is no longer fun for you. If you wanted to debate the difference between Bluetick and Redbone, look for future articles here. If you are still into this, send Why you like your favorite breed to us.) They "found that ownership of a dog from breeds originally bred for hunting (including terriers, retrievers, scent hounds and related dogs) was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease." And risk "for all-cause mortality" was lowest with pointing dogs. To read the full report,(reference below*). Here is a quick run-down (can we pun about this risk?) on their Breed categories and the associated ratio of risk. (The control group = 1.00 did not own a dog.): Breed Groups Cardiovascular Disease All-Cause Mortality Sheep and cattle dogs 1.02 0.84 Pinscher and schnauzer dogs 0.97 0.78 Terriers 0.95 0.81 Dachshunds 0.94 0.76 Spitz and primitive types 0.98 0.72 Scent hounds and related dogs 0.93 0.63 Pointing dogs 0.90 0.60 Retrievers 0.90 0.74 Companion and toy dogs 1.04 0.85 Sight hounds 1.02 0.83 Mixed Pedigree4 1.13 0.98 This article is fun for all dog owners. Please share a link to us. We who made the breed selection long ago of the dogs with which we work, and we now love, don't need to be sold on the benefits of owning Any dog. And some of us who can give you an exact date that a dog saved our life can already testify on the longevity causal effect. Enjoy!

C Rich cr@USC.training * Dog ownership and the risk of cardiovascular disease and death - a nationwide cohort study Mwenya Mubanga, Liisa Byberg, Christoph Nowak, Agneta Egenvall, Patrik K. Magnusson, Erik Ingelsson & Tove Fall Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 15821 (2017)

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