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Know that a dog's breed is not a completely accurate predictor for personality—each dog is unique, so take the time to get to know the dog before you make assumptions. As a lifelong dog-lover, dog-companion, and I've trained a dog to work with vulnerable children alongside me in a clinical setting, I looked forward to reading this book. But I was disappointed.
A scientist sets out to prove what we all instinctively know, that dogs really do love humans. We're not just food dispensers. They have deep affectionate bonds with us.A well-socialized dog is typically a friendly dog, regardless of breed. Get your dog comfortable in many different settings, such as with other dogs, different people, walking on sidewalks, traveling in the car, and going to the vet. Each of these exposures removes fear and can help the dog become more outgoing. Breed Characteristics
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” Zazie: For those of us who live with pet dogs, what are the implications of dogs’ capacity for love in terms of how we care for them? Magnetic resonance imaging shows that the brains of dogs - like this Australian Shepherd named Tazzie - respond to praise as much or even more than food So there’s a whole bunch of things. I’m always concerned to find ways of helping dogs in shelters that are easily deployed. Sometimes I worry, because I spend a lot of time talking to expert dog trainers and people who really know what they’re doing, and sometimes I worry that we tend to easily come up with solutions that are too difficult for a typical shelter to implement. There are wonderful shelters around the country, but there are a lot of shelters that just don’t have the resources to bring in experts and we need to help the dogs in those kinds of shelters, which is the larger number of dogs across the country, by coming up with solutions that are really simple, that cost as little as possible to implement. And yet not spending time trying to guess what breeds the dogs are, doesn’t cost anything, it’s not doing something. Fostering doesn’t need to cost a shelter money, and throwing in treats is also a very low cost solution. So we’re always on the lookout for those kinds of low-cost, low-effort solutions to help the poor dogs. It’s not their fault that they ended up in these places.While they can’t quite smile in the same way that we humans can, many dogs often get pretty close. "[Pet] dogs can raise their inner eyebrows much more dramatically than wild dogs, and this sympathetic, adorable expression is thought to induce feelings of care and nurturing in their human owners," said Greenstein.
I know that sometimes Xephos just wants dinner. But I’m pretty convinced that that’s not the whole picture. She really does feel a bond, a connection toward me that’s as real as any other connection that any other individual in my life might feel toward me. A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.” Clive: It’s one of the lines of research that really show us the affectionate bond between people and their dog. I think of it in my own mind as how the heartbeat becomes synchronized, how they’re just so attuned with each other. Their whole biological systems are just attuning with each other. Now that we’re talking about it I wonder why nobody’s actually done an experiment combining those things. I think of it as connected to the research out of Japan where they look at the hormone oxytocin. People call oxytocin the love hormone because it spikes when two individuals are together and looking into each other’s eyes, individuals who have a very strong emotional connection, like mothers and infants or newly-enamoured couples; not old married couples but newly-enamoured couples. When they look into each other’s eyes you see these spikes in the levels of oxytocin, on both sides – the dog and the person. So the heart rate and the heart beat synchronization and the oxytocin studies are very similar lines of research. They point us very much in the same direction. They show us how, at a quite deep biological level, people and their dogs show this biological connection to each other.
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Recent research led by Takefumi Kikusui at Japan's Azabu University has shown that levels of the chemical spike when humans and their dogs gaze into each others' eyes, mirroring an effect observed between mothers and babies. Clive: This is something I feel very strongly about. Most of the people I talk to never mean to be cruel to their dogs. We don’t intend to be cruel. We avoid punishing our dog, we avoid situations that cause pain for our dogs. But what I think we overlook is that we love our dogs precisely because they are such sociable beings and they want to be with us. We love them for that, and yet too many of us leave our dogs alone for too long. We take it for granted that a dog can just be left and it’ll be okay. This causes real distress to dogs. The most common behavioural problem that people seek help for is what we call separation anxiety. It’s not that there’s something wrong with the dog, it’s that there’s something wrong with the condition that we’re holding the dog under. We really shouldn’t be leaving our dogs alone for many, many hours a day. In Sweden it’s against the law to leave your dog alone for more than 4 hours a day. I don’t know that that’s entirely practical, but of course many people do have to work all day long and cannot get home in the middle of the day. So first of all we need to think about, does my life really have space for a dog? And secondly, if I cannot get home or somebody in the family cannot get home during the day, there are alternatives. You could engage a dog walker perhaps, a friend or neighbour who can pop round and spend some time with your dog, or a well-run dog daycare. That can also provide your dog with the social companionship that they essentially need to have satisfying and psychologically complete lives. It pains me how people think of their dog the same way they think of the other clever things they have around the house. The dog is a living being and a highly, highly social living being that needs to have company or else it’s going to be in psychological distress. There's just something about dogs that makes you feel good. You come home, they're thrilled to see you. They're good for the ego." – Janet Schnellman For years, however, scientists and animal behaviorists have researched whether our dogs have the ability to return our love. Are we being anthropomorphic when we interpret our dogs’ behavior in human terms of love?
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