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As a (human) psychologist I have often found that dogs tend to share symptoms with their humans. Especially psychosomatic issues. What are your thoughts on that?

I personally tend to think that is a function of their lives together. I particularly think of a patient that adopted a stray dog, who ate whatever and was fearless prior, born and raised in a hostile urban environment. A couple of years with this patient, he develop alergies (the patient had several), digestive issues (which also my patient suffered) and some peculiar fears that also mirrored some of my patient's.