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Owning a pet has never been so healthy. Having a pet, particularly a dog, can help reduce the risk of heart disease, according to the latest study carried out by the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Administration Medical Center in Houston (USA) and published by the journal of the American Heart Association.

The fact that when we get home from work and our dog comes to greet us or not, it already has a scientific explanation. For the first time, an experiment with dogs has shown that dogs are able to differentiate between the different emotional expressions of the human face, being able to easily discriminate between angry and happy faces. The research, carried out by the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna (Austria), has been published in the journal Current Biology.

Although many times it seems that man's best friend understands perfectly everything we say to him, the truth is that the brain of dogs does differentiate both the sounds of human speech and the way in which we express ourselves: with joy, with anger, with sadness ... That is, dogs not only listen to what we say, but also how we say it.

Although it seems that cats and dogs are immune to everything and that they can eat almost anything, they are quite delicate. These are some of the most harmful foods for your health:

It may seem to us simply noise, even an annoying noise, but the information contained in a bark is really valid for man's best friend, according to the latest study by the Biological Institute of the EötvösLoránd University in Budapest (Hungary), and that collects the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science.

Oxytocin, called the "love hormone," has been shown to make human beings more generous, confident, and social. Now, a team of researchers from Emory University in Atlanta (USA) has discovered that this hormone also has the same effect in many species of mammals, such as dogs.

Predators never completely renounce their nature. Even dogs, domesticated more than 30,000 years ago, still retain their hunting instincts.

According to John McGlone of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, he discovered it by chance. He was researching the qualities of androstenone and his dog wouldn't stop barking. So he decided to spray it on it to see what would happen.