Pets don't always make people happy, Swiss study finds

Do pets make us happy and healthy? A new Swiss study raises some doubts. In some cases, owners of dogs, cats and other pets fare even worse than people who don't own pets. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox For the study published today in the specialist scientific journal PLoS One, researchers from the University of Basel, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, the University of Lucerne and the Open University of the Netherlands analysed data on over 2,300…