Having Dogs Likely Boosts Teens' Social Skills: Study

Having Dogs Likely Boosts Teens' Social Skills: Study
Tokyo, Dec. 25 (Jiji Press)--Having a dog at home likely helps alter adolescent children's microbiome to make them happier and have better social skills, a study by a Japanese research team showed. The team's findings, based on surveys of children and experiments involving mice, were published in U.S. journal iScience. Children's gut microbiota is partially altered either by dogs' reside...