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Top 15 Ways Puppies Improve Your Health

In case you're debating, we've found 15 science-backed reasons to get a puppy

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Your pet pup could help your child learn to read. A study from the University of California, Davis found that kids who practice reading to a dog see a 12 percent improvement in reading skills over a 10-week period, compared to no improvement seen by kids who didn't read to a pup.

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