High -risk labraders also began to enter their owners to eat more often. On the other hand, dogs with low genetic risk score, regardless of how the owners focused on how they were fed.
But other results proved to be less clear. “We have long known that chocolate labraders are overweight, and I have often heard people say that they are really popular as pets for young families who throw food on the floor and where dogs are not so much focused,” Her team data shows that chocolate labraders actually had a risk of genetic obesity than yellow or black
Some of the labraders found in this study are especially obese, guide dogs, which were included in the early group. A guide dog training in the UK usually takes almost two years, during which dogs learn many skills, such as avoiding obstacles, preventing, navigating complex environments, and responding to emergency scenes. Not all dogs are able to successfully eliminate this training, which is why guide dogs are often selected with other guide dogs in the hope that their children will have a better opportunity to make it through the same training.
But it seems that the guidelines may have unexpected consequences for this electoral growth among dogs. “Our results give rise to the interesting possibility that we have inadvertently chosen obesity dogs, the dogs that really love their food, because it makes them a little more trained. They do anything for biscuits.
This study also found that the obesity responsible for dogs is also responsible for obesity in humans. “The effects of high genetic risk on dogs increase appetite. It takes more interest in eating,” Rafan claims. “This is exactly the truth in humans. If you have a more genetic risk, you are not naturally slow or trash about more food – it is just more interested in eating and getting more reward.”
Science, 2025. DOI: 10.1126/Science. ADS 2145