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Study \\ Seniors Prefer Man's Best Friend to Best Friend Man
Saturday, January 07, 2006 
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SLU Study Shows Lonely Seniors Prefer Playtime with Pooch Over Human Interaction | Saint Louis University: A new Saint Louis University study shows there is some truth in the old cliché that describes a dog as “man’s best friend.”When was the last time you met a labrador who expected you to help him paint his house? Move him across town? Let him borrow your leaf blower? Exactly.
“Or at least a less aggravating friend,” said study author William A. Banks, M.D., professor of geriatrics in the department of internal medicine and professor of pharmacological and physiological sciences at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
Nursing home residents felt much less lonely after spending time alone with a dog than they did when they visited with a dog and other people. The research will be published in the March 2006 issue of Anthrozoos 18(4).
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