Susan Kurrle, Robert Day and Ian Cameron have a new pet theory that, to be blunt, is about old people. And blunt is exactly what Kurrle, Day and Cameron are. In their words: “Serious fall-related injuries in older people may be caused by pets, most commonly dogs and cats.”
This, like the theory of evolution, is more than “just a theory”. Kurrle, Day and Cameron present compelling evidence. Kurrle and Day work at the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Health Service in Sydney, Australia. Cameron toils at the University of Sydney. They produced a formal study called The Perils of Pet Ownership: A New Fall-Injury Risk Factor…
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.