Got a dog? It could be impacting your air quality, new study shows.
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A new study found that both big and small dogs can change indoor air quality, sometimes emitting more particles than their owners.
Pet owners daily see their dogs lounge on couches and chairs, chase toys down hallways and roll around on living room carpets. Those furry friends may be impacting the air in your home environment, a new study shows.
A study published in American Chemical Society's "Environmental Science & Technology" reports that both big and small dogs impact indoor air quality. Research found that small, active dogs produce more airborne particles than large dogs, but large dogs release more microbes into the air than people.
"Pets are part of our indoor environment. By quantifying what dogs add to indoor air, we can build more realistic indoor air quality and exposure models and better inform ventilation strategies — without blaming pets or discouraging pet ownership," Dusan Licina, the corresponding author of the study, said in a release.
Here's how the study says your dog could be impacting your air.
To find out if air quality is impacted, the study measured airborne pollutants from both small and large dogs, including gases, particulate matter and microbes, and compared them to emissions from their human owners.
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