The answer of this question would be pretty varied depending on who you ask and which pets they have experience with and the debate can get pretty heated. If there’s one thing all pet owners have in common it’s that they love their pets unconditionally. Previous studies have indicated that some pet owners might feel […]
olden retrievers are one of the most popular breeds of dogs. But research shows they have up to a 65% chance of dying from cancer. In a new study, University of California, Davis, researchers set out to find if certain genetic factors could help their survival rate. But instead of searching for genes associated with a
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Study Source: Event-related potentials indicate differential neural reactivity to species and valence information in vocal stimuli in sleeping dogs Most dogs respond in specific ways to certain voices and sounds whether it’s another dog, humans using certain tones of voice or other sounds in their environment. If you’re a dog owner, you can probably also
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Study Source: Dog brains are sensitive to infant- and dog-directed prosody We all speak to dogs, even if they’re not our own. A new study out of Hungary showed that our pooches respond to voices and speech designed for them and women do a much better job at this then men. Hungarian researchers at the
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Study Source: Plos One Researches in Austria looking at spatial observation in dogs and wolves discovered both will remember where food is stored but wolves are better at it for different reasons. Dogs and wolves appear to remember where people hide food, suggesting they are capable of a form of social learning known as observational
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Getting a new puppy is an incredible time for you and your family. There are also a long list of things to consider such as house training, exercise, crate training, obedience and much more! Maybe the most important thing you can do for your pup is socialization…and LOTS of it. What is socialization The period
If you’ve ever stared into your dog’s eyes and immediately felt better, there’s a scientific reason why and it has to do with a chemical called Oxytocin. Oxytocin – The happy hormone Oxytocin is a natural hormone that manages key aspects of the female and male reproductive systems, as well as aspects of human behaviour and
“Having a dog will bless you with the happiest days of your life and one of the worst days.” I think about that quote often as I think about the dogs I’ve had throughout my life and it’s one of the truest things I’ve ever read. As humans, we tend to humanize everything and the
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Go ahead and sleep with your dog—it’s perfectly safe, as long as you are both healthy. That might go against everything you’ve heard from growing up, your parents or even older dog training techniques. Sleep technology firm Simba recently partnered with animal behaviorist Professor Peter Neville to answer a question that dog owners have been wrestling with
In what could be described as a dog lover’s heaven, hundreds of golden retrievers turned out at Guisachan estate in Scotland where the breed originated. Celebrating 155 years Every 5 years, The Golden Retriever Club of Scotland organize a four-day anniversary event at the ruins of Guisachan(prounounced KUSH-igan) House, where the dogs were first bred. The
