According to a recent investigation by the Boston Globe, the vast majority of students at Tufts’ Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine are female. Well, d’uh.

Is it really any surprise that more girls than boys want to help care for cute animals? Okay, so Tufts’ vet school is a special case—a whopping 89 percent of its freshmen last year were girls. Still, this isn’t exactly a mind-boggling concept.

“Theories abound” concerning why veterinary medicine is more popular among women, the article says. Perhaps it’s that “the practice of veterinary medicine is considered more flexible and less time-intensive than some other professional fields, making it attractive to women who hope to have families.” Maybe it’s that being a vet “pays…less than…human medicine, law, and dentistry -- a factor that some say makes it unattractive to men who generally expect to be a home’s sole breadwinner.”

Honestly, screw the theories—chicks just dig puppies.