{"id":2940,"date":"2025-07-02T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/dog-ownership-doesnt-lead-to-happiness\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:13:35","slug":"dog-ownership-doesnt-lead-to-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/dog-ownership-doesnt-lead-to-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog ownership doesn&#039;t lead to happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-02 16:13:33<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Owning a dog doesn&#8217;t make a person happy.<BR><br \/>\nA major new study has cast doubt on the &#8216;pet effect&#8217; theory that those who surround themselves with pooches get a boost in terms of health and happiness.<BR><br \/>\nResearch involving 3,000 Hungarians during Covid lockdowns found that while new dog owners saw a small initial burst of cheer, it faded fast. Over time, levels of calmness, contentment, and activity actually dropped &#8211; and feelings of loneliness weren&#8217;t cured. <BR><br \/>\nIn fact, many who owned canines said that they felt more anxious as a result of caring for their pets.<BR><br \/>\nJudit Mokos, one of the first authors of the study at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, said: &#8220;What surprised me most was that a new pet in the household had no effect on the respondents&#8217; loneliness.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Dog adoption is often promoted as a solution for elderly and\/or lonely people. Shelters and pet food companies promote adoption as a means of alleviating loneliness.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;However, our research suggests that dogs do not provide a real solution to loneliness; rather, they make the new owners more anxious.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-02 16:13:33 Owning a dog doesn&#8217;t make a person happy. A major new study has cast doubt on the &#8216;pet effect&#8217; theory that those who surround themselves with pooches get&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}