研究：养宠物影响睡眠！怎样才能让猫猫狗狗晚上安静一点？

抱着毛茸茸的猫猫或狗狗入睡，大概是每一个爱宠人士的心愿了。

Your beloved pet may be hurting your sleep, a new research finds.

Though pets can have many positive effects on health, pet ownership was linked with poorer sleep, according to a study.

他们调整了可能影响睡眠的因素，包括种族、收入、年龄、性别和BMI（身体质量指数），并重点关注调查对象是否患有睡眠障碍，以及是否养了猫或狗。

The researchers adjusted for factors that could affect sleep, including race and income, as well as age, gender and BMI, and focused on whether a person had a sleep disorder and whether a person had a cat or a dog.

BMI: Body Mass Index身体质量指数, 是国际上常用的衡量人体胖瘦程度以及是否健康的一个标准。

怎样才算睡眠质量低呢？我们可以参考以下这些表现：

The findings showed that having a dog was associated with a greater chance of having a sleep disorder and overall having trouble sleeping, while having a cat was associated with having a higher chance of leg jerks in the night.

“The age of the pet has a big influence on whether or not they keep you up at night,” van Egmond said. “If you have multiple pets, they can egg each other on.”

egg on: 撺掇，怂恿

With dogs, it depends a lot on the breed and the activity level it needs.

Making sure a pet gets plenty of physical activity and mental stimulation during the day can help animals — and their owners — get better rest.

简而言之，就是让你的狗狗在白天“玩累了”。

Unlike dogs, cats tend to have bursts of energy at night.

If you play with your cat before it was ready for bed, you would activate the cat's hunting instinct.

By being fed after that, your cat would feel that it has successfully hunted its food and was rewarded with a nice meal in return.

图源：视觉中国

Its natural instinct after that was to groom itself and go to sleep.

The new study indicates that pets can influence your sleep, but we have to really take into account that pets are much more than a facilitator or inhibitor of sleep.

它们更是我们家庭的一部分。

编辑：左卓

实习生：武思彤

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