Preference For Dogs Over Cats Likely Due To Your Genes
Are you a dog person or a cat person? If you are like most people, you are clearly on one side of the fence or the other. Most of us would likely just chalk this up to personal preference or maybe the influence of having grown up around one animal or the other. But some intriguing research from Sweden published in May of 2019 showed a surprisingly large effect of genetic influences on a person’s preference for dog ownership! This research was a collaborative effort between Swedish and British researchers who used 35,035 pairs of twins from the Swedish Twin Registry. The…