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Sharing a bed with a dog showed no difference in owners’ tracker-measured sleep duration or efficiency, whether they reported always, sometimes or never doing it, in a study of huskies and malamutes.

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Husky and malamute owners who let a dog onto the bed showed no significant difference in tracker-measured sleep duration or efficiency from owners who said the dog never slept there, in a four-week University of Toronto study of 25 people and 38 dogs in southern Ontario.



The study, published 7 October in PLOS One, sorted owners by their own end-of-study reports. Four said a dog always shared the bed, 10 said sometimes and 11 said never. Across 777 tracked nights that habit had no significant

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