Dogs
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Dogs Evolved as True Omnivores Capable of Digesting Carbohydrates
“So they had to evolve to have digestive enzymes to break down carbohydrates and starches, and they are true omnivores like humans.”
Chicken and Beef Are the Most Common Food Allergies in Dogs
“The most common allergies to dogs, kind of strangely compared to humans, is chicken and beef.”
Puri: Longevity startups focused on dogs will succeed
“I think the longevity startups that are focused on dogs are going to do well, because who doesn't want their dog, like, to live longer?”
Isaacson: 55% of single US adults are pet owners
“55% of single adults in the U.S. Are pet owners with dogs leading the way.”
Sirota: Over 60M US households consider dogs family members
“This is happening every day in over sixty million homes in the US alone who consider their dogs to be a member of their family.”
Brit Morin: There are more dogs than children in the Bay Area
“There are more dogs than children. In the Bay Area.”
Gazdecki: Consumers spend irrationally on dogs, weddings, and children
“There's certain categories where people have an irrational spend limit. And I think the saying is Dogs, and weddings, and children.”
Palihapitiya: Have as many kids and dogs as biologically and economically possible
“Have as many kids as you can possibly biologically have and can economically afford is my one opinion. And the more dogs, the better.”
Soviet WWII anti-tank dog program failed due to unpredictable animal behavior
“For example, the Soviets, they trained dogs to run under tanks, enemy tanks, and they had explosives attached to them, and they were meant to blow up the tanks. And a bunch of things went wrong. So, first of all, they had trained the dogs on their own tank, Wh…”
Lopez: Canine Genomics Lacks NIH Research Funding Compared to Mouse Models
“Veterinary medicine has not had the resources, and even from the NIH level, what the mouse has been very well characterized and studied, the dog really hasn't.”
Conde: Six Million Dogs Are Diagnosed With Cancer Yearly in the US
“Six million cases a year of diagnosed cancer in the United States in dogs.”
Dr. Abernethy: Dogs share more conserved biology with humans than mice do
“So there's much more conserved biology between dog and human than mouse and human.”
Abernethy: Testing cancer drugs in dogs saves tens of millions per drug
“The whole message that really I walked away from that conference with was that if we now embedded into the drug development process for human drug development a better understanding of how those drugs performed in dogs, we could save many tens of millions of d…”
Lopez: Spontaneous Canine Cancers Have Intact Immune Systems Missing in Mice
“Dogs that have natural disease, spontaneous disease, have an immune system also that's working, and that's a radical difference from the mice models that are much more engineered and sometimes don't have an immune system to have the cancer, and then the ones t…”
Christina Lopez: Canine cancer probability increases significantly after age five
“And if you correlate cancer with aging, the dogs after the age of even five, the probability of cancer goes way up.”