New research out of the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) campus has proven that dog snuggles benefit everyone.
“The vast majority of responses [in the study] show that the dogs helped the students feel and experience something positive regardless of their gender,” said John-Tyler Binfet, Ph.D, Associate Professor in UBC Okanagan’s School of Education and Director of the program ‘Building Academic Retention through K9s’ (BARK).
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