Archive · 8 Dec 2025

Popular Pet Videos Often Cause Stress, Study Finds

Popular Pet Videos Often Cause Stress, Study Finds

A new study looked at lots of popular videos of cats and dogs on the internet.

These videos are often funny or cute, but the study found that many of them actually make the animals stressed or even hurt them.

The researchers saw that more than half of the videos could hurt the pets, and most of them showed signs that the animals were stressed.

For example, dogs might have wide eyes or try to get away, and cats might have big eyes.

The study also found that some videos show pets with health problems because of how they were bred.

The researchers say it's important for people to know when pets are stressed and to not watch or share videos that might hurt them.

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