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Barking mad research finds dogs do look like their owners; RESEARCH.


DOG owners really do look like their pets, an academic study claimed yesterday.

Researchers have discovered that owners can be matched to the breed they own because of their physical attributes.

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, who led the six-month study, said: "We asked dog owners of three different breeds to fill in a form to assess their personality and then examined the results.

"But what we discovered was that the findings didn't did·n't  

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 correlate for the breeds so you couldn't tell from personality who owned which dog.

"However, we then got non-dog owners to look at photos of the owners and make a prediction of who owned which breed. The results were not perfect but they were above average."

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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Apr 3, 2009
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