研究：养宠物影响睡眠！怎样才能让猫猫狗狗晚上安静一点？

抱着毛茸茸的猫猫或狗狗入睡，大概是每一个爱宠人士的心愿了。

但最新研究发现，你心爱的宠物可能会影响你的睡眠。

Your beloved pet may be hurting your sleep, a new research finds.

养宠物会影响睡眠质量

一项研究指出，尽管宠物为人体健康带来很多积极影响，但它们或许和睡眠质量不好有关系。

Though pets can have many positive effects on health, pet ownership was linked with poorer sleep, according to a study.

为分析影响睡眠质量的因素，研究人员查看了美国国家健康与营养调查 （NHANES）的数据。

他们调整了可能影响睡眠的因素，包括种族、收入、年龄、性别和BMI（身体质量指数），并重点关注调查对象是否患有睡眠障碍，以及是否养了猫或狗。

The researchers adjusted for factors that could affect sleep, including race and income, as well as age, gender and BMI, and focused on whether a person had a sleep disorder and whether a person had a cat or a dog. BMI: Body Mass Index身体质量指数, 是国际上常用的衡量人体胖瘦程度以及是否健康的一个标准。

怎样才算睡眠质量低呢？我们可以参考以下这些表现：

睡眠质量低的表现

睡眠困难或入睡困难

having trouble sleeping or falling asleep

在夜里醒来

waking up during the night

起床太早

waking up too early

需要药物才能入睡

needing medication to sleep

腿部抽搐或痉挛

having leg jerks or cramps

入睡时间超过15分钟

taking longer than 15 minutes to fall asleep

睡眠时长经常少于6小时

regularly getting less than six hours of sleep

研究结果表明，养狗会增加睡眠障碍和睡眠困难的几率，而养猫则与夜间腿部抽搐有关。

The findings showed that having a dog was associated with a greater chance of having a sleep disorder and overall having trouble sleeping, while having a cat was associated with having a higher chance of leg jerks in the night.

具体 的影响因素有很多，瑞典乌普萨拉睡眠科学实验室的睡眠研究员丽芙·范·埃格蒙特表示：“宠物的年龄是影响睡眠质量的因素之一，因为这决定了它们的活泼程度。”

其次，如果你家有多只宠物，它们也会相互撺掇捣乱，让你不得安宁。

“The age of the pet has a big influence on whether or not they keep you up at night,” van Egmond said. “If you have multiple pets, they can egg each other on .” egg on: 撺掇，怂恿

如何与宠物一起睡得更好

那么，我们怎样才能在宠物的陪伴下保证自己的睡眠质量呢？

狗狗对于人睡眠的影响，很大程度上取决于它的品种和所需的活动量。

With dogs, it depends a lot on the breed and the activity level it needs.

确保狗狗在白天得到足够的活动和精神刺激，可以帮助它和主人在夜间获得更好的休息。

Making sure a pet gets plenty of physical activity and mental stimulation during the day can help animals — and their owners — get better rest.

简而言之，就是让你的狗狗在白天“玩累了”。

与狗狗不同，猫猫往往会 在晚上爆发能量。

Unlike dogs, cats tend to have bursts of energy at night.

猫猫的深夜跑酷，想必铲屎官们都见识过了。怎样做才能让猫咪晚上消停一点呢？

以下是专家建议：

如果你在 猫猫睡觉前和它玩一会儿，它的狩猎本能就会被激活。

If you play with your cat before it was ready for bed, you would activate the cat's hunting instinct.

玩耍结束，你就给它喂点猫粮。这样它会觉得自己觅食成功，并得到了一顿美餐作为回报。

By being fed after that, your cat would feel that it has successfully hunted its food and was rewarded with a nice meal in return.

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之后，它会出于本能地梳洗自己，然后乖乖睡觉。

Its natural instinct after that was to groom itself and go to sleep.

尽管这项新研究认为宠物会影响睡眠质量，但我们必须明白，家里的“毛孩子”绝不仅仅是睡眠的催化剂或抑制剂。

The new study indicates that pets can influence your sleep, but we have to really take into account that pets are much more than a facilitator or inhibitor of sleep.

它们更是我们家庭的一部分。

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实习生：武思彤

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