If you’ve had a stressful day, you might want nothing more than to cuddle up next to your dog. But a new study has found that you might be unknowingly passing on your bad day to your dog. Swedish researchers studied 58 dogs over the course of a year and discovered that they took on the stress levels of their owners.

In this interview, we chat to Bronwyn Orr about the findings of the study and how we can look after our dogs’ mental health as well as our own.