Fur real.

Just when you thought dogs couldn’t get any better, a new study has found that having a canine companion as a kid can offer the ulti-mutt protection from an annoying skin condition .

The same benefits did not extend to cat ownership.

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The research, published in the journal Allergy , found that babies exposed to pet dogs in their first year of life were less likely to develop eczema if they carried the DNA variant that increases their risk for the condition.

“The most difficult questions I’m asked by parents in clinic are about why their child has eczema and how they can help,” Sara Brown, a dermatologist at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Genetics and Cancer, said in a press rele

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