Diet and prior training show no impact on cognitive decline in aging pet dogs

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 13:00 in Psychology & Sociology

A new study of older pet dogs found that problem solving, sociability, boldness and dependency decline with age, and reported no associations between an enriched diet, lifelong training experiences, and measures of behavior and cognition after a one-year diet period. A team of researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, and University of Liverpool, UK present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on September 16, 2020.

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