Type: Literature Review Personal Comment: Ever wonder why you love dogs so much? Journal Name Journal of Veterinary Behavior Paper Title The physiological function of oxytocin in humans and its acute response to human-dog interactions: a review of the literature ABSTRACT Oxytocin is increasingly recognized to have a role in human-dog bonding and interactions, and […]
Type: Article Personal Comment: For those interested in scent detection dogs. Dogs Detect Malaria By Sniffing Socks Worn By African Children As the global battle against malaria stalls, scientists may be adding a novel tool to the fight: sniffer dogs. In recent tests trained sniffer dogs successfully diagnosed malaria infections simply by sniffing samples from
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I won’t here as it’s a seminar level presentation rather than a casual blog post but I can make a reasonable, strong and scientifically supported argument that very little that currently passes for ‘learning theory’ in companion dog training is based on canine or human behavior in the context of how any higher order social
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We have 3 dogs a Golden, German Shepherd Mix, and a St Bernard Mix. Last may we took on my sons Australian Shepherd while he deployed for the Airforce. Everything was going really well until about 2 weeks ago when she has started getting very aggressive towards our St Benard Mix, which we think has
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Based on how you’re describing going about this the only way those ‘high-value treats’ and clicker are going to impact your cat’s future is if your dog confuses which of your hands holds the treat and which hand is holding the clicker and tragically chokes on the clicker.
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When you have a dog that is continually threatening to bite and/or is biting or is only not biting because of owner diligence and precautions and the behavior is unrelated to physical health issues, you have four options. It is more of a funnel really as one leads to the next.
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