tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64227025283285120432023-11-16T03:33:17.362-09:00Dog Spies by Julie Hecht, MScThe Science Behind the Dog-Human RelationshipJuliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-55809090547734539402013-03-21T07:57:00.002-08:002013-03-21T09:04:15.859-08:00We're Moving!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I am excited </b>to announce that T<span style="font-size: large;">ODAY</span> Dog Spies has moved to the <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/about-the-scientific-american-blog-network/" target="_blank">Scientific American Blog Network</a>!</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/dog-spies/" target="_blank">Link to Dog Spies new home on Scientific American</a></b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most importantly, the dogs have been notified. All of them. And they are okay with it. <br />
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The reason the dogs are okay with it is that Scientific American has a vast network of blogs and bloggers <span style="font-size: large;">who</span> cover everything from <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind" target="_blank">the mind</a> and the heart to <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/" target="_blank">literary psychology</a>, and slime, slime molds and <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/" target="_blank">nanothingamabobs</a>. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/" target="_blank">Jesse Bering</a> and <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/" target="_blank">Becky Crew</a> blogs and books</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">J</span>ason Goldman writes <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/" target="_blank">The Thoughtful Animal</a> and Evelyn Lamb makes math fun, yes fun, at <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/" target="_blank">Roots of Unity</a>. <span style="font-size: large;">And </span><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/" target="_blank">art + science</a>? Well, yes, they have that! Or <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-seriously/" target="_blank">a science comedian</a>? Yes, they have one of those, too.<br />
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Hell, one of the Scientific American bloggers even wrote a book called <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/" target="_blank">Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?</a> and another blogger has a book out called <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/" target="_blank">Zombie Tits and Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animal Stories</a>. <br />
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Given that <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2012/11/return-of-crotch-part-3.html" target="_blank">dogs are into crotches</a> and sometimes seemingly weird stuff, they see this as a match made in heaven. <br />
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In other words, Dog Spies will be among friends.</b><br />
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Another reason dogs are particularly excited is because this move affirms that science is taking <span style="font-size: large;">dogs</span> and the dog-human relationship seriously. Heck, the FOURTH <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2012/08/inside-3rd-canine-science-forum.html" target="_blank">Canine Science Forum</a> will be held next summer in the UK, which is to say, there have already been THREE Canine Science Forums. Research groups across the globe are worki<span style="font-size: large;">ng</span> to unveil dogs’ perceptual world and what makes them tick, and we’re moving to Scientific American to talk about it<span style="font-size: large;">!</span><br />
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Other items on the agenda: Dog Spies posts will be more frequent, weekly and even sometimes bi-weekly<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Lend dogs a h<span style="font-size: large;">and</span></span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How to lend a hand. (<a href="http://qingqingsweet.blogspot.com/2011/05/help-me.html" target="_blank">Source</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And most (most) important: You know how during a move, people ask for help? <span style="font-size: large;">Someone <span style="font-size: large;">will causally<span style="font-size: large;"> say</span></span></span>, <i>“What are you doing next Sunday?” </i>And <span style="font-size: large;">you vaguely remember they</span> were thinking about moving, but you can’t remember when, soooooo you pause and say <i>“Well... uh... let me check.”<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;">(Of course, I would never do that).</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, I need help<span style="font-size: large;">!</span> You can’t help by stuffing packing peanuts or lending me your truck because in the world of online, I jus<span style="font-size: large;">t </span>created a new folder and Tadaa! I have moved!<br />
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<b>Instead,<span style="font-size: large;"> here's how you could help</span>:</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) If you hear</span> of any dog behavior or cognition work<span style="font-size: large;"> that you think <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">warrants</span> sharing,<span style="font-size: large;"> d</span></span></span>o share! <span style="font-size: large;">Email<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="mailto:DogSpies@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">DogSpies@gmail.com</span></a></span></span><br />
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2) <span style="font-size: large;">Do</span> you take <i><b>pictures</b></i> or make <i><b>artwork</b></i> of dogs being dogs<span style="font-size: large;">?</span> I would love to featur<span style="font-size: large;">e</span> your <span style="font-size: large;">stuff</span> on Dog Spies posts, and give appropriate credit where credit is due.<span style="font-size: large;"> Email <a href="mailto:DogSpies@gmail.com" target="_blank">Dog<span style="font-size: large;">Spies@gmail.<span style="font-size: large;">com</span></span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also, stay</span> in touch vi<span style="font-size: large;">a <a href="https://twitter.com/DogSpies" target="_blank">Twitte</a><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DogSpies" target="_blank">r</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dog-Spies/111599945577968" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and of course, there's always</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://dogspies.com/" target="_blank">DogSpies.com</a>. If you're in the <span style="font-size: large;">NYC area, consider joining</span><span style="font-size: large;"> our s<span style="font-size: large;">tudies</span> at the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab:<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="http://dogcognition.com/" target="_blank">DogCognition<span style="font-size: large;">.com</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://dogcognition.com/" target="_blank"> </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A big thanks to the Blog Father, <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/about.php?author=11" target="_blank">Bora Zivkovi</a><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/about.php?author=11" target="_blank">c</a>, for bringing Dog Spies on board! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for joining me here at <span style="font-size: large;">B</span>logger. Looking forward to seeing y’all <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/dog-spies/" target="_blank">at the new home</a>. Bring your dog. We’ve got a big yard.</span></span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-2613728881077387882013-02-03T18:40:00.002-09:002013-02-04T07:09:50.543-09:00Lend a Paw: Help scientists design a cat behavior questionnaire<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(<a href="http://supercatcare.com/vet-visit-questionnaire/" target="_blank">Source</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Those in the field of canine behav<span style="font-size: large;">ior</span> and cognition</b> see the word “<a href="http://vetapps.vet.upenn.edu/cbarq/" target="_blank">C-BARQ</a>”, and that means something to us. We know it<span style="font-size: large;"> is not</span> short for <i>“See Spot bark.”</i> Instead it stands for <i><b>C</b>anine <b>B</b>ehavioral <b>A</b>ssessment and <b>R</b>esearch <b>Q</b>uestionnaire</i> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">—</span></span></span></span></span> a questionnaire pr<span style="font-size: large;">oviding</span> dog owners and dog professionals with standard<span style="font-size: large;">ized evaluations of canine temperament and behavior. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The current version has 101 questions <span style="font-size: large;">which describe</span> the different
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dog Behavior Questionnaire</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The C-BARQ was developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://research.vet.upenn.edu/Default.aspx?alias=research.vet.upenn.edu/cias" target="_blank">Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society</a></span></span> under Dr. James Serpell, editor of the highly regarded book, <a href="http://research.vet.upenn.edu/Default.aspx?alias=research.vet.upenn.edu/cias" target="_blank">The Domestic Dog its Evolution, Behaviour and Interactions with People</a>. (Yes, this book should be on your shelf).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many</span> dog behavior and cognition studies incorporate<span style="font-size: large;"> the<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>C-BARQ </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">b</span>ecause it has been tested extensive<span style="font-size: large;">ly</span> for <a href="http://fcit.usf.edu/assessment/basic/basicc.html" target="_blank">reliability and validity</a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">; type</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <i>"<a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=C-BARQ&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C33&as_sdtp=" target="_blank">C-BARQ</a>"</i> into Google Scholar, and you'll see what I'm talking about. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now the C-BARQ is getting a friend, and of course it’s a <a href="http://pennvetmed.catbehaviorsurvey.sgizmo.com/s3/" target="_blank">cat behavior survey</a><span style="font-size: large;">!</span> I’m not sure what the cat questionnaire's acronym will be, maybe the F-BARQ, but that sounds a bit odd. F-MEOW might be more appropriate — <i><b>F</b>eline <b>M</b>odel for <b>E</b>ating on <b>W</b>aterskis</i>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Serpell and his colleagues are in the initial stages of developing this<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">standardized questionnaire to assess cat<span style="font-size: large;"> behavior</span>,<span style="font-size: large;"> and they </span>need help<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">— </span></span></span> <i>lots and lots of help</i>! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://pennvetmed.catbehaviorsurvey.sgizmo.com/s3/" target="_blank">This cat behavior questionnaire</a> will <span style="font-size: large;">lay the groundwork for future work, but first, t<span style="font-size: large;">hey</span> need <span style="font-size: large;">many</span> people to complete<span style="font-size: large;"> the ques<span style="font-size: large;">tionnaire and ensure the final version</span></span> does a good<span style="font-size: large;"> job assess<span style="font-size: large;">ing cat behavior</span>.</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>Cat owners anywhere in the world can help by completing this </i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>short, 15-20 minute survey about their cat.</i></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>'Things My Cat Broke' Contribute<span style="font-size: x-large;">d</span> </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I completed the survey for Josh, the cat behind the new <span style="font-size: large;">T</span>umblr page, <a href="http://thingsmycatbroke.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Things <span style="font-size: large;">M</span>y <span style="font-size: large;">C</span>at<span style="font-size: large;"> B</span>roke</a>. In fact, Josh just updated his page this week. Take a look! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And now, back to dogs...</span></span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-15468250973993882092013-01-15T18:50:00.001-09:002013-01-15T18:50:11.424-09:00"Moooove over, I need to stretch out," said the cow<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>In sticking with our recent theme, “<a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2012/11/return-of-crotch-part-3.html" target="_blank">Return of the crotch</a>,” this week I give you, <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/05/cow-spies.html" target="_blank">Return of Priya Motupalli</a>. Priya is an animal welfare scientist studying dairy cattle behavior and welfare. Back in 2011 she enlightened Dog Spies readers about her research investigating cow preference for different housing systems. This is her second guest blog post on Dog Spies. If you’re wondering what’s the connection between cows and dogs, read on...</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">R<span style="font-size: large;">ECENTLY</span> I’ve been fascinated with the way I sleep. Not sleep itself, but the actual position I sleep in. I’ve been having some pretty horrific nightmares lately (I’ve been eating pizza </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">really late at night while watching Gilmore Girls reruns, so you do the math), and I keep waking up hanging off the bed, arms and legs sprawled everywhere, my neck in weird CSI-dead-person-number-2 angles, and my sheets wrapped up around me in knots that would rival your Christmas lights </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">from 1994. It’s not pretty.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This got me thinking, if I could have a nickel for the number of people that think cows sleep standing up, I’d be richer than <a href="http://fiftyshadesofgrey.wikia.com/wiki/Christian_Grey" target="_blank">Christian Grey</a>. I’d be even richer if I had a nickel for every person who thinks <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping" target="_blank">cow-tipping</a> is a real thing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Cow Tipping?</span></b> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cows, like us, can achieve REM sleep only in particular positions (Ternman et al., 2012). <i>Standing up is not one of them.</i> So, you can’t tip a cow over while it’s sleeping because it doesn’t achieve deep sleep standing up. See the logical fallacy? </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“No,
she’s not dead…she’s sleeping!”</i> I recently had a picture like this on a
poster I presented at a well-known behaviour conference (that shall be
left unnamed)<i><span style="font-size: small;">. </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">The</span> amount of people (in my OWN field) that asked
why I have a picture of a dead cow<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>on my poster was a little silly.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also, anyone that has ever been around cows knows how difficult it is to sneak up on one: they have almost 360 degree panoramic vision, are quick to flee (like many prey animals), and generally weigh 700kg. Good luck tipping that over!<b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Farmers and Scientists Think<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">A</span>bou<span style="font-size: large;">t <span style="font-size: large;">Sl</span>eep</span></span></span></b></span></span><b> </b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Farmers and scientists actually pay a great deal of attention to how cows rest. For dairy cows, the opportunity to lie down is particularly important, both from the cow’s point of view, and from a milk production point of view.<b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cow’s <span style="font-size: large;">P</span>erspective:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dairy cows that are deprived of the ability to lie down (even for as little as 3 hours), become even more motivated to lie down, to the point where lying takes priority over eating when given the choice between the two (Jensen et al., 2004). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In case it’s not obvious, this is weird. Cows actually choose to rest over EATING! Eating is such a basic need for cows, and they really need to eat considering the demands placed on their bodies to continually produce milk. For lying to take precedence over eating, it suggests that lying down is incredibly essential.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When dairy cows are deprived of lying for longer periods of time (14+ hours), they actually develop abnormal behavioral patterns that suggest discomfort and frustration (Munksgaard and Simonsen, 1996), e.g.<span style="font-size: large;">,</span> tongue<span style="font-size: large;">-</span>rolling, nose<span style="font-size: large;">-</span>pressing, etc. <a href="http://www.aps.uoguelph.ca/~gmason/StereotypicAnimalBehaviour/library.shtml" target="_blank">Equivalent behaviours in dogs might be tail-chasing, flank sucking, star-gazing, paw chewing etc</a>. So, allowing for adequate lying behaviour is important for cow well-being.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/dairy/facts/info_cowbehave.htm#stereotypy" target="_blank">Example of Nose-pressing</a>:</b> The black cow in the middle/back of photo is
repeatedly applying strong pressure with its nose to the steel bar for
long periods of time. Again, this behaviour is believed to be present
only when the animal is behaviourally frustrated and its basic needs are
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Production <span style="font-size: large;">P</span>erspective:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cows deprived of lying have the potential to produce less milk. When deprived of lying, cows produce less growth hormone (Haley et al., 2000), a hormone that is important for milk yields (I’m talking GH actually produced by the cow, not rGBH here). Additionally, when cows are prevented from lying down, the body cannot respond to stress as it usually would, and so changes occur as part of the normal stress response. These changes can lead to chronic stress (Munksgaard and Simonsen, 1996). Understandably, chronic stress decreases milk yields. Finally, rumination time (cud chewing) and blood flow to the udder (both good indicators of milk yield) are higher when cows are lying down rather than standing (Haley et al., 2000). Since the very existence of the dairy industry is reliant on milk production, this presents a pretty fundamental problem if dairy cows aren’t able to lie down.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since I spend about 16 hours a day during my PhD literally watching cows, I’ve noticed how long they spend lying and in how many positions they actually lie! They lie just like ginormous dogs. They lie with their front legs stretched out, they lie flat on their sides, they lie curled up like a rolly polly, head up, head down, YOU NAME IT!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In summary:</b></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lying behaviour is important for both dairy cow well-being and for milk production<span style="font-size: large;"><b>.</b></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cows need to lie down, just like dogs!</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The next step in research might be to try and quantify what is the preferred cow lying position<span style="font-size: large;">. If</span> deprived of that position, how does that affect cow well-being<span style="font-size: large;"> and </span>production?</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Signing out,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=33" target="_blank">Priya Motupalli</a>, <span style="font-size: small;">MS Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Harper Adams University<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b>References:</b><br />Haley, D. B., J. Rushen, and A. M. De Passille. 2000. Behavioural indicators of cow comfort: activity and resting behaviour of dairy cows in two types of housing. Canadian journal of animal science. 80(2):257-263.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Jensen, M. B., L. Munksgaard, L. J. Pedersen, J. Ladewig, and L. Matthews. 2004. Prior deprivation and reward duration affect the demand function for rest in dairy heifers. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 88(12):1-11.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Munksgaard, L. and H. B. Simonsen. 1996. Behavioral and pituitary adrenal-axis responses of dairy cows to social isolation and deprivation of lying down. J Anim Sci 74(4):769-778.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Ternman, E., L. Hanninen, M. Pastell, S. Agenas, and P. P. Nielsen. 2012. Sleep in dairy cows recorded with a non-invasive EEG technique. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 140(12):25-32.</span></span></span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-50356945059875740762013-01-03T22:28:00.000-09:002013-01-03T22:28:14.563-09:00You there! Play with your dog! For science!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDh8fVeVb4WreLMdGyQJouh_WlTnZIbbHNywOtZuFyN0KNrIJHDhY3LM_8-3ZhQHuZOghz20FEYGr28_gJKiSm8ApYh4ZLv2gJDqPbFMEhxw2wWnh9qhzvxCgqsdVtYBmDEQDWJf7BdRg/s1600/eventbrite-dog-playing.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>W<span style="font-size: large;">hen</span> kids go to college</b>, many parents have alcohol-related concerns about binge drinking or drunk driving. When I went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison <span style="font-size: large;">-- </span>ironically, a school known for football, cheese curds and alcohol consumption<span style="font-size: large;"> --</span> my mom’s biggest concern was that I would join a psychology experiment where electrodes would be attached to my body, I would be injected with Red Dye Number 3 and then infected with smallpox.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oddly enough, t</span>his was a valid concern. My mom had grown up <span style="font-size: large;">learning about</span> the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm#" target="_blank">Tuskegee Study</a> and the <a href="http://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm" target="_blank"><span class="fn">Milgram Obedience Experiment</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">; she</span> had <span style="font-size: large;">doubts and su<span style="font-size: large;">spicions about research and researchers</span></span></span>. On top <span style="font-size: large;">of that, she had mothered a kid</span></span> (me) who <span style="font-size: large;">liked activities <span style="font-size: large;">off the beaten path. <span style="font-size: large;">A</span></span></span> sleep experiment (prefer<span style="font-size: large;">ably </span>with extra electrodes) was more up my alley than a night <span style="font-size: large;">drinking on the to<span style="font-size: large;">wn</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br /><br />Now that I<span style="font-size: large;"> am</span> involved in research as the <span style="font-size: large;">m</span>anager of a <a href="http://www.dogcognition.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>og <span style="font-size: large;">C</span>ognition <span style="font-size: large;">L</span>ab</a>, everything has changed. I<span style="font-size: large;"> a</span>m pleased to report that my mom not only approves of what I study, she thinks you should join us!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Play <span style="font-size: large;">W</span>ith your <span style="font-size: large;">D</span>og, for <span style="font-size: large;">S</span>cience</b></u><br />Our latest study at the <a href="http://www.dogcognition.com/" target="_blank">Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab</a><span style="font-size: large;"> do<span style="font-size: large;">es not</span></span> require that you sleep with electrodes or shoot gamma rays at your eyeballs. We just want to see you and your dog playing together. Really. That’s it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.doghumanplay.com/" target="_blank">Project: Play with Your Dog</a> is a unique study. We are investigating all the different ways people and dogs play together, and we need your help (well, you <i>and</i> your dogʼs help). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For the first time, we are conducting a study via crowdsourcing, asking dog owners to submit short videos of themselves playing with their dog. <b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Project: Play with Your Dog</b> is open to anyone, in any country. If you live with a dog, we want to see you play!<br /><br /><u><b>How to Participate</b></u><br />Find or make a 30-60 second video of you and your dog playing in whatever way you like to play together<span style="font-size: large;">. Then</span> upload the video to our website and complete a short survey. <span style="color: red;"><i>Make sure the video captures you and your dog playing <u>together</u></i>. <i>You </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><i>and your dog n</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><i>eed to </i></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>both </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><i>be in the shot</i></span>.</span></span> You are also invited to add a picture of you and your dog to our growing <a href="http://doghumanplay.com/Wall-of-Contributors" target="_blank">Wall of Contributors</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><u><b>Why <span style="font-size: large;">P</span>lay?</b></u><br />A recent guest post on Scientific American, <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/12/12/how-do-you-play-with-your-dog/" target="_blank">How Do you Play with Your Dog?</a>, gives background into what we know about dog play and why we are exploring the unique world of dog and human play.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>About Us</b></u><br />The <a href="http://www.dogcognition.com/" target="_blank">Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab</a> in NYC is run by Dr. Alexandra Horowitz, author of <a href="http://insideofadog.com/" target="_blank">Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know</a>. Our Lab conducts treat-based, behavior studies exploring the cognition of companion dogs. </span></span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-27831802528706443712012-11-27T14:15:00.001-09:002012-11-27T19:04:50.040-09:00Return of the crotch (Part 3)<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the third installment in the Crotch Series. For earlier crotch talk, check out: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/12/oh-hello-why-yes-thats-my-crotch-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1: Oh, hello! Why yes, that’s my crotch!</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-is-strangers-crotch-more.html" target="_blank">Part 2: Why is a stranger’s crotch more interesting than mine?</a></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.mamapop.com/2008/02/britney-spears-same-crotch-different-day.html" target="_blank">Do you know this famous crotch?</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For humans, our crotches</span> are called “private parts” for a reason. What lies between our legs is our most personal and controlled area, brought into the spotlight by few, like <a href="http://www.aoltv.com/2011/06/29/louis-c-k-cant-wait-to-be-gross-daily-show-video/" target="_blank">comedians</a> and <a href="http://www.mamapop.com/2008/02/britney-spears-same-crotch-different-day.html" target="_blank">young pop stars</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dogs didn’t seem to get the crotch etiquette memo. You know what I’m talking about. Everybody, at some point, has been confronted with a dog’s head in their crotch, while they’re left thinking, “What on earth are you doing in there?”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A 1991 study set out to explore just what dogs are doing in there: Specifically, whether dogs differ in how they sniff known versus unknown people.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the study, human subjects, either owners or strangers, were told to lie on the floor while a dog inspected them. The researchers found that not all crotches are equal. When dogs first approached the human’s body, <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/12/oh-hello-why-yes-thats-my-crotch-part-1.html" target="_blank">dogs inspected strangers’ crotch-and-thigh region</a> more than that of their owners, suggesting that upon meeting a stranger, the crotch is an important “get to know you” spot, like looking at someone’s Facebook page.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not so fast! Could it be possible that, over time, owners trained their dogs (either intentionally or unintentionally) that <i>their crotch</i> is off limits, whereas strangers would never have had an opportunity to enforce a similar rule? If this were the case, then “learning” might explain why dogs go for<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>strangers’ crotches and not their owners’. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">How can we discern whether dogs’ interest in strangers’ crotches is actually about acquiring important information and not simply the product of not having been told, “No”? To answer this question scientifically, let's take real<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>people — the source of the potential “learning” — out of the equation entirely.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another study did just that. Two identical dolls were placed in a room wearing identical t-shirts, underpants and socks, but there was a catch: one doll wore clothing that a <i>known child</i> had worn for two days preceding the experiment, and the other doll was adorned with clothing worn by an <i>unknown child.</i> As in the other study, dogs were allowed to investigate by sniffing.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dog investigates one of the dolls. Figure 2 from </span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fchemse%2F15.6.679&rft.atitle=An+experimental+analysis+of+olfactory+cues+in+child%E2%80%94dog+interaction&rft.jtitle=Chemical+Senses&rft.artnum=http%3A%2F%2Fchemse.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fdoi%2F10.1093%2Fchemse%2F15.6.679&rft.volume=15&rft.issue=6&rft.issn=0379-864X&rft.spage=679&rft.epage=689&rft.date=1990&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fscienceseeker.org&rft.au=Fili%C3%A2tre+Jean-Claude&rft.aulast=Fili%C3%A2tre&rft.aufirst=Jean-Claude&rft.au=Eckerlin+Annie&rft.aulast=Eckerlin&rft.aufirst=Annie&rft.au=Millot+Jean-Louis&rft.aulast=Millot&rft.aufirst=Jean-Louis&rft.au=Montagner+Hubert&rft.aulast=Montagner&rft.aufirst=Hubert&rfs_dat=ss.included=1&rfe_dat=bpr3.included=1"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/6/679" target="_blank">Filiâtre et al., 1990</a></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u><b><span style="font-size: large;">Doll Crotches: The Final Frontier</span></b></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">With no living, breathing person in the room to tip dogs off, what would the dogs do? Would the dogs behave differently towards the <i>known</i> versus <i>unknown</i> "people"? Would dogs' behavior suggest that they simply had learned not to sniff their owners’ crotches, but when given the chance, they would love to get in there? Or, would their behavior suggest that there is something uniquely important about inspecting a new person’s crotch? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The study found that dogs still investigated differently depending on whether the doll wore familiar or unfamiliar clothing. Dogs inspected both dolls’ crotches but sniffed the crotch of the "unfamiliar" doll more than the crotch of the "familiar" doll. And that makes sense.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since both dolls looked exactly the same, dogs had to investigate both dolls’ crotches to make an initial ID. With the known doll, dogs examined the crotch and quickly</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://heartifb.com/2012/10/26/10-hot-guys-we-wish-had-menswear-blogs-including-ryan-gosling/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Don't worry about a present! Just bring your crotch.</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>determined (and I paraphrase), <i>“Hey! I know you!”</i> and then moved on and investigated other parts of the body. But with the doll wearing an unknown child’s clothing, this was a new<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>crotch, a new person and more to investigate to answer the question<span style="font-size: large;">,</span> <i>"Who the heck are you?”</i> As a result, the dogs gave more attention to the unfamiliar crotch, the ID zone. It looks </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">like dogs use human<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>crotches to orient themselves to who<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>we are. </span></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Crotch Morals</span></b></span></u><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The moral of the story: As the holiday season rolls in and a dog you’ve never met comes bounding over at a holiday party, remember that the best present you can give a dog might be hidden between your legs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Back in July, I entered into the world of being a two<span style="font-size: large;">-</span>blog canine science blogger. Here’s the deal:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-trick-people-into-eating-dog.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">People eating dog food</span></a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/07/dog-people-are-from-saturn-cat-people.html" target="_blank">Dissecting "animal people"</a> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/01/selective-breeding-olympics-droopy-vs.html" target="_blank">Droopy and Smuckers<span style="font-size: large;">: The final showdown</span></a> </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/09/where-should-dogs-put-their-tongues.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>ongues hanging out</a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Guilty look" in dogs (<a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/03/is-denver-dog-really-guilty.html" target="_blank">P</a><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/03/is-denver-dog-really-guilty.html" target="_blank">art 1</a>, <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/04/guilt-part-2-she-greeted-me-showing.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a> and the <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2012/05/guilty-look-in-dogs-from-new-angle.html" target="_blank">scientific publication</a>)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Crotch sniffing (<a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/12/oh-hello-why-yes-thats-my-crotch-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part</a><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/12/oh-hello-why-yes-thats-my-crotch-part-1.html" target="_blank"> 1</a> & <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-is-strangers-crotch-more.html" target="_blank">Part </a><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-is-strangers-crotch-more.html" target="_blank">2</a>)</span></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mia and I met at the <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2012/08/inside-3rd-canine-science-forum.html" target="_blank">3rd Canine Science Forum</a> in Barcelona, so DYBID? is a mixture of dogs & Spain!</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://doyoubelieveindog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Do You Believe in Dog?</a></span></span> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> a bit different. It’s a collaborative, pen-pal blog between myself and the awesome Mia Cobb, also in the field of canine research. She primarily investigates the welfare of working dogs, and you can <a href="http://doyoubelieveindog.blogspot.com/p/mia.html" target="_blank">learn about her awesomeness here</a><span style="font-size: large;">, and a<span style="font-size: large;">n overview</span> of her research <a href="http://doyoubelieveindog.blogspot.com/2012/08/approval-endorsed-now-about-that-phd.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">(<a href="http://critteristic.com/dogs-and-puppies/sierra-and-cooper-are-super/" target="_blank">Source</a>)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mia lives 14 hours away in Australia, so as she pointed out the other night, <b>Do You Believe in Dog?</b> never sleeps, unless one of us is napping at an odd hour (and we’d be sure to alert you beforehand). <br /><br />The premise of <b>Do You Believe in Dog?</b> is simple. <i>"What happens when two canine scientists become pen pals in an era of digital media?"</i> Each week, we go back and forth in shorter, more conversational posts discussing different dog behavior, cognition and welfare topics. Recently, <a href="http://doyoubelieveindog.blogspot.com/2012/08/scientific-american-gave-us-our-first.html" target="_blank">Scientific American awarded us 'Blog of the Week!'</a> We got excited and made signs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Dog Spies</b> and <b>Do You Believe in Dog?</b> have similar messages: <i>Dogs are fun, therefore scientific investigation into dogs is fun (and useful)!</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stay in touch with <b>Dog Spies</b> and <b>Do You Believe in Dog?</b> on Facebook and Twitter!<br /><br /><b>Dog Spies</b><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dog-Spies/111599945577968" target="_blank">Facebook</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dog-Spies/111599945577968" target="_blank">Twitter</a><br /><br /><b>Do You Believe in Dog?</b><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DoYouBelieveInDog" target="_blank">Facebook </a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/DoUBelieveInDog" target="_blank">Twitter</a></span></span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-59528333871102104592012-09-19T08:29:00.000-08:002012-09-19T08:38:37.450-08:00EVENT in NYC (9/21) Thinking Animals: Don’t miss dogs, pleasure and laughing rats<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">People seem to get that there is an <i><b>emotional</b></i> underpinning to this behavior. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After all, this image comes from Darwin's book, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expression_of_the_Emotions_in_Man_and_Animals" target="_blank"><span dir="auto"><i>The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals</i></span></a>. And this dog is clearly expressing emotions!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>But sometimes, it’s less easy to see</b>. Sometimes a species might be set up to hide his or her emotions. Maybe it’s a prey species, and I know I’ve said this before, but a rabbit doesn’t want to advertise he has a broken leg. Then, the rabbit would stop being a rabbit and become a dinner. But that’s not to say Mr. Rabbit isn’t experiencing fear or pain just because he’s not yowling like I would be.<br /><br /><b>A bigger question is: </b>What emotions do humans share with other non-human species? How can we explore where there is overlap and where there is projection?<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Join me on <b>Friday, September 21st @ 7 PM</b> for <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ThinkingAnimals" target="_blank">Thinking Animal: Sharing Animal Emotions</a>, a lecture series here in NYC at Hunter College. If we're lucky, this month's talk will feature dogs, pleasure and laughing rats.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thinking Animals does not disappoint! Getting in the same room with researchers and scientist who dedicate their careers to various topics of non-human animals, only leaves you more informed (and excited!). Here's my review of past lectures, <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2012/06/so-you-think-you-know-your-dog.html" target="_blank">So you think you know your dog?</a> and <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2012/02/birds-and-bees-and-octopuses-too.html" target="_blank">Birds and Bees and Octopuses, too</a>!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Join Thinking Animals for a spirited discussion of the latest research in understanding animal emotions with panelists:</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">JONATHAN BALCOMBE, Ph.D.,<br />Chair of the Animal Studies Department with the Humane Society University.<br /><br />MARC BEKOFF, Ph.D., International lecturer on issues of animal behavior, cognitive ethology, and behavioral ecology.<br /><br />JAAK PANKSEPP, Ph.D., Coined the term 'affective neuroscience', the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion. He is known in the popular press for his research on laughter in non-human animals, such as rats.<br /><br />And moderator:<br />MARK MOFFETT, Ph.D.,<br />Photographer and Biologist, Mark Moffett, also known as "Doctor Bugs", is known for combining serious science with quirky adventure stories and photography. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">See you there! ~ Julie</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Visit 'Thinking Animals' on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ThinkingAnimals" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.thinkinganimals.org/" target="_blank">Web</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/4animalminds" target="_blank">Twitter</a> for more detail. </b></span></span></span></div>
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Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0New York, NY, USA40.7143528 -74.005973140.3292248 -74.637687100000008 41.0994808 -73.3742591tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-77962447592977106382012-09-04T06:38:00.001-08:002012-09-04T07:21:09.240-08:00Humping Resources<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">During your lifetime, you’re bound to meet a humper. And when that day comes, you might think, <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2012/03/hmping_14.html" target="_blank"><i>“Why me?!? Why now!?!?”</i></a><br /><br />And if I were to simply Google <i>“Dog Humping”</i> or “<i>Dog Mounting,”</i> I’d be scared, too! There's loads of really bad information out there. <br /><br /><b>So why do dogs mount and hump?</b> Apart from procreation, there are <i>many, many, many</i> different reasons why dogs hump! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The below resources explain the <i>Whys of Mounting and Humping</i>. They are written by applied ethologists and veterinary behaviorists </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">—</span></span></i> people who study animal behavior and address real-world issues. These resources cover: </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who mounts?</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Check Out These Resources, and Get To Know Humping</span></u></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hecht, Julie. <a href="http://thebark.com/content/hmping" target="_blank">H*mping Why do they do it?</a> <a href="http://thebark.com/" target="_blank">The Bark</a>, June-August 2012: 70, 56-60.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bekoff, Marc. <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201209/why-dogs-hump" target="_blank">Why Dogs Hump</a>. Psychology Today, September 2012.</span></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bergman, Laurie. <a href="http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/column/applied-behavior/canine-mounting-overview?9RfscGvCZp" target="_blank">Canine Mounting: An Overview</a>. Applied Behavior / North American Veterinary Conference Clinician’s Brief, January 2012: 61-63.<i> (free registration for easy access to this article and more)</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Benal, Jolanta. <a href="http://dogtrainer.quickanddirtytips.com/humping-mounting.aspx" target="_blank">What to Do About Your Humping Dog</a>. Quick and</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Dirty Tips The Dog Trainer, October 2009 </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">ASPCA Virtual Pet Behaviorist. <a href="http://www.aspca.org/Pet-care/virtual-pet-behaviorist/dog-articles/mounting-and-masturbation" target="_blank">Mounting and Masturbation</a>.</span></span></li>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"If dogs could talk — and they actually are with their
behavior — they’d ask us not to clump mounting into one universal
meaning. So what’s your dog’s mounting behavior telling you?" (Hecht, The Bark)</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-79974042874852295242012-08-15T18:55:00.000-08:002012-08-17T09:51:27.829-08:00Keep the L.O.V.E. Alive (Literally)<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you see a tour bus</b> with </span><span style="font-size: large;"> "<a href="http://www.keepthelovealivetour.com/" target="_blank">Keep the L.O.V.E. Alive</a>" printed on the side, you </span><span style="font-size: large;">probably assume <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Spears" target="_blank">Britney Spears</a> or <a href="http://www.bretmichaels.com/" target="_blank">Bret Michaels</a> will emerge. Usually, you'd be right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This "<a href="http://www.keepthelovealivetour.com/" target="_blank">Keep the L.O.V.E. Alive</a>" tour is swarming with <a href="http://www.dacvb.org/" target="_blank">Veterinary Behaviorists</a>, a different kind of rock star. They are on a <a href="http://www.keepthelovealivetour.com/tourstops" target="_blank">6-city tour</a> distributing information to the public and veterinarians to reduce euthanasia by solving behavior problems. This week, the tour comes to <a href="http://www.goodnewsforpets.com/articles.asp?ID=1942" target="_blank">NYC</a>, and you can meet up with board-certified veterinary behaviorist</span>, <span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.nycvetbehavior.com/about-dr-c.html" target="_blank">Dr. E'Lise Christensen</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Why a tour solely dedicated to animal behavior? </b>Behavior problems are a leader in euthanasia. And we’re not even talking behavior problems that fall in the kujoesque realm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.goodnewsforpets.com/Articles.asp?ID=1927" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><b>10 common behavior problems</b></span></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Aggression</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Stress</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Urine marking</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>~ In Dogs ~</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Aggression</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Separation anxiety</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Fear and phobias</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Jumping up</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">House soiling</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The <a href="http://www.goodnewsforpets.com/articles.asp?ID=1942" target="_blank">six-city</a> tour hopes to raise awareness that there are <u><i><b>solutions</b></i></u> to behavioral issues for dogs and cats. Labeling companion animals as “just anxious," "just fearful” or “just doesn’t like men” prevents them from learning new associations and changing their inner emotional states.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">The tour comes to NYC this Friday!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b>Friday, August 17, 2012</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hudson River Park, Pier 84 Dog Run</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">9:00 a.m. – Noon</span></span><br /><a href="http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/explore-the-park/activities/pier-84-dog-run" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">West 44th Street & 12th Ave. at Pier 84</span></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">New York, NY. 10001</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I have insider information that puppies <i>may</i> be in attendance, and I will definitely need a dose of puppy come Friday. And, of course, I love to discuss ways to keep the love alive.</span></div>
Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-64768509646918747732012-08-03T10:28:00.001-08:002012-08-08T11:49:43.480-08:00Inside the 3rd Canine Science Forum<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Top right and bottom left photos courtesy of <a href="http://hu.linkedin.com/in/tamsa" target="_blank">Tamás Faragó</a> of the <a href="http://familydogproject.elte.hu/" target="_blank">Family Dog Project</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What is the <a href="http://www.csf2012.com/" target="_blank">Canine Science Forum</a> (CSF)? A place for scientists to convene and present research on canine behavior and biology? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Maybe the CSF is a science gathering where dog attendees mill about and discuss <i>their</i> latest research, such as "Owner Response to Urine on the Floor: A Review" and "The Best Street Food of 2012." <i><br /></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>At the 3rd Canine Science Forum</b> in Barcelona, 250 people from 25 different countries came together for three days to share their latest research, mingle, discuss new ideas, occasionally disagree and of course, toss a few back.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Canine Science Forum. Photo courtesy of <a href="http://hu.linkedin.com/in/tamsa" target="_blank">Tamás Faragó</a> of the <a href="http://familydogproject.elte.hu/" target="_blank">Family Dog Project</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://familydogproject.elte.hu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Canine Science Forum. Photo courtesy of </span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://hu.linkedin.com/in/tamsa" target="_blank">Tamás Faragó</a> of the <a href="http://familydogproject.elte.hu/" target="_blank">Family Dog Project</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The worst thing</b> about any conference is the continual state of being seated, but I guess I’ll have to wait until I have a say
at conferences and can create a standing zone.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Keynote speakers</b> presented on a range of topics: <a href="http://www.ucalgary.ca/wolfbook/liberg.htm" target="_blank">Olof Liberg</a> from the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences described the complex issues faced by wolves in Scandinavia (the situation honestly feels like a bad soap opera); <a href="http://www.thebark.com/content/heart-heart-frank-ascione-phd" target="_blank">Frank Ascione</a> from the Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver discussed the relationship between partner violence and violence toward pets, and Márta Gácsi of the <a href="http://familydogproject.elte.hu/staff.html" target="_blank">Family Dog Project</a> in Budapest provided an overview of attachment research in dogs (you can also read my summary of attachment research in The Bark article <a href="http://www.thebark.com/content/dog-smart-exploring-canine-mind" target="_blank">Dog Smart: Exploring the Canine Mind</a>; the content is very similar to Dr. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Gácsi's presentation</span><span style="font-size: small;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here are some conference highlights...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Teasing Posters</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Remember when you were in 4th grade and you made a science poster? Mine was about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Penguin" target="_blank">Emperor Penguins</a>. Adult scientists also make posters! But instead of simply describing say, the <a href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/introphylo.html" target="_blank">phylogeny</a> of Emperor Penguins, (adult) researcher present their latest projects and research on posters. Grown-ups' science posters in action:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Poster Teasers</b> <b>are a nifty</b> addition to "normal" poster sessions. Poster Teasers are brief talks where researchers go on stage and, in 2 minutes, introduce their research and entice conference goers to visit their posters for more details. Here's my Poster Teaser ending: </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Poster enticement! Visit my "<a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.fr/2012/05/guilty-look-in-dogs-from-new-angle.html" target="_blank">guilty look</a>" poster.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> While the CSF </b>certainly incorporates its share of cute dog photos, the conference focuses on unearthing <i>All That Is Canid</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It’s impossible to summarize three days of lectures and science posters, but here’s a taste of research presented at the 3rd Canine Science Forum in Barcelona.<b> View all the conference Abstracts on my website: <a href="http://dogspies.com/Dog_Spies/Science%21.html" target="_blank">Dog Spies</a> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Those in the field of <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/applied-animal-behaviour-science/" target="_blank">Applied Animal Behavior</a> tend to study the behavior of domesticated and utilized animals. This is my main focus because my Masters from the University of Edinburgh is in <a href="http://www.vet.ed.ac.uk/animalbehaviour/" target="_blank">Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><b><i>Research</i></b></span><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><b><i>: Wolves and livestock guarding dogs </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Title: Interactions between wolves and livestock guarding dogs on a French alpine pasture</i>. What actually happens when livestock guarding dogs (LGD) and wolves meet up at night? A tea party? Joint moon-howling competitions? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jean-Marc Landry and colleagues explored this question: using an infrared camera, they captured 23 nightime interactions between LGDs and wolves. In most of the encounters (22/23), LGDs did not engage in physical contact with the wolves. The presence of LGDs did not stop wolves from approaching sheep, and wolves returned, even after chases by the LGDs. LGDs could be disruptive, but they did not prevent wolves from spending time on fields. In terms of distance, they found that two </span><span style="font-size: small;">LGDs chased the wolves farther than one LGD. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYJpx8jKbst1qGr3KcOBUOg3N8DRlGpZOxEcCCVoXeo81npgKZKHIh3oEAYP8YMB7atp_2dBvKvShly5aaDNn8JmVklnmTSmcaNAkGDOd7jFJKq1Sohlg3The-oONptfAIPzs0LlY7wA/s1600/guard_llama_sign.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijYJpx8jKbst1qGr3KcOBUOg3N8DRlGpZOxEcCCVoXeo81npgKZKHIh3oEAYP8YMB7atp_2dBvKvShly5aaDNn8JmVklnmTSmcaNAkGDOd7jFJKq1Sohlg3The-oONptfAIPzs0LlY7wA/s200/guard_llama_sign.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">This study reminds us that we don't have to simply make guesses about the interactions </span><span style="font-size: small;">between LGDs and wolves at night. We can explore actual behavior interactions. Effectiveness of LGDs can also be investigated. Of course, effectiveness is in the eye of the beholder. If LGDs are brought on board to banish </span><span style="font-size: small;">wolves from fields, this did not appear to happen (in this case). But if LGDs are desired for disrupting wolf predatory behavior, this does appear to be happening. And while not necessarily the best for wolf predation, don't forget about <a href="http://www.llama.org/guard_llamas.htm" target="_blank">livestock guarding llamas</a>!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Research</i></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>: Urine and castration</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Title: The effect of castrating male dogs on their use of the vomeronasal organ when investigating conspecific urine deposits</i>. Because I study dogs, I have good reason to constantly talk about urine. <b>Urine matters</b> to dogs, and therefore, urine matters to me! Daisy Berthoud and her colleagues wondered if castrating dogs affects their urine exploration. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dogs investigate urine by sniffing, and some will even lick the source and then perform teeth chattering and salivating behaviors. Teeth chattering and salivating, which could also be considered <a href="http://www.whole-dog-journal.com/issues/7_11/features/Canine-Sense-of-Smell_15668-1.html" target="_blank">flehman-like behaviors</a> (FLB), are thought to aid in the decoding of the urine information. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Berthoud and colleagues wondered whether castration affects teeth chattering and salivating (FLB) in the presence of urine. Particularly because <i>castration</i> in other species, such as bulls, can <i>decrease</i> FLB.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The results! When dogs encountered urine samples, “Intact male dogs displayed flehmen-like behaviour considerably more often than castrated males.” They suggest that castration might “influence the range of chemosensory cues perceived by dogs.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Title: Development and Implementation of a Unique Online Portal for Collecting Data From a Standardized Behavior Evaluation With Shelter Dogs</i>. Animal shelters customarily run behavior evaluations on new animals that enter their facilities. Amy Marder and a slew of researchers at the <a href="http://www.centerforshelterdogs.org/Home/AboutTheCenter.aspx" target="_blank">Center for Shelter Dogs</a> in Boston, MA have created an online system to collect data from standardized behavior evaluations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">“The program is designed to help shelters learn about the personality and needs of each dog so that behavioral interventions can be implemented when needed and successful matches made.” The program, <a href="http://www.centerforshelterdogs.org/Home/DogBehavior/MatchUpII.aspx" target="_blank">Match-Up II, is available online</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The online format</b> helps pool evaluation results from different shelters into a centralized database. <b>Their goals:</b> establish a database to compare dog behavior and trends, make behavior evaluations faster and easier, automatically generate personality scores, and produce summary reports with training recommendations. <i>Thanks to <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/seana-dowling-guyer/5/942/a75" target="_blank">Seana Dowling-Guyer</a>, MS for presenting this research. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Research</i></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>: Relationships, aggression and fake hands</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Title: Fake hands, true bites?</i> Alexa Capra and colleagues explored the general topic of dog aggression towards people. Specifically, do dogs respond differently to an artificial hand that is being held and used by a <i>known</i> <i>person</i> vs. an artificial hand used by an <i>unknown person</i>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Artificial hands are often used to explore aggressive responses in dogs. Why? So real hands don’t get bitten. Sounds good to me! <a href="http://www.centerforshelterdogs.org/Home/DogBehavior/ProblemsandManagement/FoodAggression.aspx" target="_blank">Here are some video clips (from a different organization) of dogs eating food and responding to a fake hand</a>. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/apr/29/offering-a-helping-paw-pet-rehab-helps-transform/" target="_blank">http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/apr/29/offering-a-helping-paw-pet-rehab-helps-transform/</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Capra explored whether there was a difference in how dogs respond to an artificial hand approaching dogs' food when the hand was held by a <i>stranger</i> or by the <i>owner</i>. Was the dog’s reaction influenced by the <i>relationship</i> with the person handling the hand? They found that dogs' aggressive scores were higher with the stranger than with the owner. This is an interesting element as the "fake hand" used in behavior evaluations is often considered a neutral stimulus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">To non-scientists, cognition might seem like a fancy shmancy term to describe extraordinary skills and competencies, possibly only possessed by some species. But cognition, or cognition research, is really a catch-all term to describe the exploration of attention, memory,
perception, problem-solving and mental imagery skills. All of these topics, of course, can be explored in canids. Here is some cognition research from the CSF:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Research:</i></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>What is fair?</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Title: Sensitivity to Unequal Rewards in the Domestic Dog: Fair is Fine, but More is Better.</i>
Alexandra Horowitz explored how dogs interpret a social situation where
they are sometimes treated the same as another dog (both dogs receive
one piece of food), sometimes treated “better” (aka receive more food
than another dog) and sometimes treated “worse” (aka receive less food
than another dog).</span><br />
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humans are presented with this type of scenario, we often take note of
how others are treated and have a propensity towards fairness. We don’t
like inequity in any sense, regardless of whether we are overpaid or
underpaid. Inequity is inequity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What
did dogs do? “Dogs selected a trainer who had treated them
‘‘unfairly,’’ yet who presented a potentially greater opportunity for
future rewards.” Dogs sought out food from the person who dished out
more food, even though that person had not been so generous to them.
(This study, <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/12313227745m7148/" target="_blank"><u>Fair is Fine, but More is Better: Limits to Inequity Aversion in the Domestic Dog</u></a>,
was recently published by Alexandra Horowitz, the head of my lab, in
Social Justice Research, and I’m sure there will be more coverage of
it).<b><i> </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Research: </i></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>What are you looking at?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Title: Matching pictures with the appropriate sound: results from an eye-tracking study of dogs and 14-month-old infants</i></span><span style="font-size: small;">. Researchers are now using eye tracking devices to explore exactly where
dogs are looking when presented with different visual stimuli. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anna Gergely and colleagues explored
where dogs look when they are simultaneously presented with different
images -- a dog face and a human face -- and also simultaneously
presented with an auditory signal, either the sound of barking or the
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dogs
looked longer at the image that corresponded with the appropriate
auditory stimulus: when dogs heard barking, they looked longer at the
dog than the human, and when they heard a human voice, they looked
longer at the human face. Go dogs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This
is cool because dogs are showing a “sophisticated ability to match
auditory and visual stimuli.” Dogs are not, for example, simply looking
at the image of their own species first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The CSF was immediately followed</b> by the</span><a href="http://www.assistancedogsinternational.org/adiconference.php" target="_blank"> Assistance Dogs International Conference 2012</a>.<span class="Generaltext" lang="ca"><a href="http://abrionline.org/expert.php?id=21" target="_blank"> Karen Overall</a> discussed the process of and merits to publishing scientific articles on the dog-human interaction (publishing is a good idea), and <a href="http://phone.online.lincoln.ac.uk/dmills" target="_blank">Daniel Mills</a> described the need to increase</span><span class="Generaltext" lang="ca"> awareness of the value of dogs in society.</span><span class="Names" lang="ca"> <a href="http://www.mysevc.info/index.php/en/ponentes-uk/88-uk/ponentesuk/155-fatjo-jaume" target="_blank">Jaume Fatjó</a></span><span class="Generaltext" lang="ca"> reminded the audience that if you want to incorporate animal assisted therapy into healthcare plans, you need to convince others of the economic advantage to doing so.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">That's the short of it! </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Abstracts from the 3rd Canine Science Forum are on the <a href="http://dogspies.com/Dog_Spies/Science%21.html" target="_blank">Science!</a> page of my website.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://csf2008.elte.hu/" target="_blank">1st Canine Science Forum</a> 2008, Budapest, Hungary</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://csf2010.univie.ac.at/" target="_blank">2nd Canine Science Forum</a> 2010, Vienna, Austria</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.csf2012.com/" target="_blank">3rd Canine Science Forum</a> 2012, Barcelona, Spain</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">4th Canine Science Forum 2014, Lincoln, UK -- See you in two years!! </span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>~ Many thanks to all the conference organizers ~</i></span></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-11138458093079275542012-07-24T15:03:00.001-08:002012-07-24T21:54:02.504-08:00Talking dogs: Welcome to the 3rd Canine Science Forum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Given the popularity of dogs, one would assume the paparazzi would line up to cover the 3rd <a href="http://www.csf2012.com/index.html" target="_blank">Canine Science Forum</a> starting tomorrow in Barcelona. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Unlike other dog events, the CSF is a lesser known, but AWESOME, conference dedicated to exploring the biology, ecology and behaviour of dogs, wolves and related canids. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The conference began in 2008 in Budapest by the <a href="http://familydogproject.elte.hu/" target="_blank">Family Dog Project</a>. The <a href="http://www.cleverdoglab.at/index.php?id=3&L=1" target="_blank">Clever Dog Lab</a> in Vienna sponsored the second conference in 2010 and here we are, in 2012, at #3 in Barcelona!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">While dogs certainly take up the bulk of the three-day conference, other canids grace the stage. After all, as John Bradshaw astutely reminds us in the book <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/05/26/136497064/the-new-science-of-understanding-dog-behavior" target="_blank">Dog Sense</a>, the dog can be considered in its phylogenetic context (as a member of the canid family), not merely as a descendent of the wolf. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A conference dedicated to the state of all things canid, what we know -- and don't know -- is an important step for the growing field of canine cognition and behavior. <i>(Did I say growing? It certainly is! Check out these <a href="http://www.patriciamcconnell.com/theotherendoftheleash/whos-doing-research-on-canine-cognition" target="_blank">canine research groups</a>, and I'm sure after the Conference I'll have an even bigger list for you!) </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Get a load of a few topics on the <a href="http://www.csf2012.com/Pages/program.html" target="_blank">program</a>:</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Recognition of familiar human faces in domestic dogs: use of internal or external facial features? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Anaïs Racca </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">(University of Vienna)</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Behavioral differences between dogs acquired from pet stores and those obtained from noncommercial breeders. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.vet.upenn.edu/facultyanddepartments/faculty/tabid/362/default.aspx?faculty_id=6361798" target="_blank">James Serpell</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">(Best Friends Animal Society)</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">1) The "guilty look" research I did with the Family Dog Project in Budapest: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/guilty-look-in-dogs-from-new-angle.html" target="_blank">Behavioral assessment and owner perceptions of behaviors associated with guilt in dogs</a> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">2) A new study we're running at the <a href="http://www.dogcognition.com/" target="_blank">Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab</a> on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Physical prompts to anthropomorphism of the domestic dog. The findings are not as straight forward as you might think...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>So the main question is, </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>two years from now, during the next Canine Science Forum,</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> where will you be??</b></span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-27176930470123241242012-06-26T17:36:00.000-08:002012-06-26T17:55:20.566-08:00How to trick people into eating dog food<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Things my party guests sometimes say to me:</span></div>
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<li><i><span style="font-size: large;">Julie, where’s the bathroom? </span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: large;">Julie, what a nice collection of dog books you have.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: large;">Julie, we need a lot of paper towels right now.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: large;">Julie, do you have any dog food? I’m hungry.</span></i></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ve never met him, but I have to imagine <a href="http://www.johnbohannon.org/" target="_blank">John Bohannon</a> woke up one morning and thought, <i>“What does dog food taste like?”</i> That, or <i>“How can I make a lot of people voluntarily eat dog food?”</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Either way, the outcome was the same. Bohannon gathered eighteen people together to voluntarily consume dog food in a study exploring whether people can distinguish between pâté and dog food. <br /><br />If you haven’t yet noticed, out-of-the-ordinary studies get me going — from Gosling’s exploration of <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/07/dog-people-are-from-saturn-cat-people.html" target="_blank">personality differences between dog and cat people</a> to whether there is a difference in how <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-is-strangers-crotch-more.html" target="_blank">dogs sniff a stranger’s crotch and an owner’s crotch</a> (there is).<br /><br />Bohannon's study is similar, in that it is "different." Bohannon and his colleagues crafted an experiment to investigate the intrinsic palatability of dog food by performing a run-of-the-mill, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_experiment" target="_blank">double blind</a>, taste test. <br /><br />The study was not simply a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frolic_and_detour" target="_blank">frolic and a detour</a>. If dog food were found comparable in taste to pâté, <i>“it could be a suitable and inexpensive substitute for pâté or processed blended meat products such as Spam or liverwurst”</i> (Bohannon et al., Abstract).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To explore the palatability of dog food, Bohannon and his colleagues hosted an unusual dinner party. What better time to eat dog food than on New Year’s Eve! On December 31, 2008, 18 subjects, also known as party-goers, gathered in Brooklyn, NY where they dined on 5 different spreads. Four were human-intended, meat-based products and one was the infamous dog food. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All five samples — duck liver mousse, pork liver pâté, liverwurst, <a href="http://www.spam.com/" target="_blank">Spam</a> and dog food — were pulsed in a food processor to give them the same mousse-like consistency. Each sample was then placed in a serving bowl, chilled to 4 degrees Celsius and garnished with parsley. Subjects sampled all the spreads, as many times as needed, on Carr’s Table Water Crackers. <br /><br /><span style="color: red;">So how do you determine the palatability of dog food?</span> See who vomits first? Nope. After tasting all the samples, subjects provided two pieces of information:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Eating Dog Food: Results</b></u><br />The first part of the results are not surprising. Humans don’t like the taste of dog food. Over half the subjects, 72% (13 people) ranked the dog food dead last</span><span style="font-size: large;">. On the other hand, the duck liver mousse was ranked first by 55% (10 people).<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">But here’s where things get weird</span>. Although the majority of subjects ranked Sample C, the dog food, as the worst, when asked to report which sample was in fact dog food, most people did not guess Sample C! In fact, only 3 of the 18 subjects correctly identified Sample C as dog food!<br /><br />As the authors suggest, the subjects could have been primed to expect the dog food to taste better than it did. After all, the dog food was <a href="http://newmansown.com/" target="_blank">Newman’s Own</a>, and who doesn’t love anything and everything <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Newman" target="_blank">Paul Newman</a> has contributed to this planet? <br /><br /><u><b>There are two morals to this story:</b></u></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">If you serve your guests dog food, they won’t like it. But they also won’t necessarily know it’s dog food, so it's worth a try. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">People are weird, better to study dogs.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bohannon et al., 2009. <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CGMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wine-economics.org%2Fworkingpapers%2FAAWE_WP36.pdf&ei=VV7qT9S0CMTm0QGH4fi8BQ&usg=AFQjCNFGVNP4IeyE5gTwyJKK2jjbWxZfuw&sig2=yvZMA89_OMflTX8woMBfqQ" target="_blank">Can People Distinguish Pâté from Dog Food?</a> American Association of Wine Economists. Working Paper No. 36</span></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-17721019473604893552012-06-10T18:12:00.004-08:002012-06-10T19:13:04.151-08:00"So, You Think You Know Your Dog?"<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Friday, June 8, this provocative title drew New Yorkers to <a href="http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/main/" target="_blank">Hunter College</a> where four scientists provided a behind-the-scenes look at our beloved companion and extraordinary foot-warmer, the dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The host was <a href="http://thinkinganimals.org/home.html" target="_blank">Thinking Animals</a>, an organization dedicated to providing “a scientific and ethical rationale for valuing the intrinsic worth of other species.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In real life, scientists are not insane nerds as depicted by <a href="http://www.lghs.net/ourpages/users/dburns/ScienceOnSimpsons/Clips.html" target="_blank">The Simpsons</a>. Instead, scientists are storytellers, and the Thinking Animals speakers each presented a unique tale of who the dog is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.vet.upenn.edu/facultyanddepartments/faculty/tabid/362/default.aspx?faculty_id=6361798" target="_blank"><b>Dr. James Serpell</b></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If anyone ever tells you, “This is how dogs were domesticated...” ask them where their time machine is parked and if you can borrow it for a few hours. If they don’t have a time machine, then they probably don’t have the answer. <br /><br />As Dr. Serpell explains, we’ve collected loads of information about how dogs came to be dogs, but the picture is still messy. The mess includes the archeological record, which examines skulls and burial grounds, as well as the genetic record, which examines both mitochondrial DNA and single-nucleotide polymorphisms. <br /><br />One domestication hypothesis suggests a single dog origin in Asia, while another suggests multiple origins in different locations around the world. The more information we gather, the muddier the story becomes. Right now I’m sticking with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/dogs-and-humans-speculation-and-science.html" target="_blank">James Gorman of the New York Times</a> who wrote, “only proximate answers [currently] exist to the question of where dogs came from. Mine came from a shelter. How about yours?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.aspcapro.org/aspca-on-the-road-bios.php#drz" target="_blank"><b>Dr. Steve Zawistowski</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many dogs spend their days and nights serving the role of companion to humans. According to the ASPCA, there are about 1 million dogs in NYC. For both parties, this can be an incredibly rewarding arrangement. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Because scientists like to measure stuff, they even found a way to measure this relationship. When spending time together, <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/made-each-other/201005/dog-good" target="_blank">oxytocin</a>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But this union is far from perfect. Between 3 and 4 million dogs find themselves in animal shelters each year, and behavior problems are a common reason for relinquishment. <br /><br />How might this be alleviated? While dogs have been primed to look to and cooperate with humans, dogs do not receive a handbook in utero titled, <b><u>How to Live with Humans So You Don’t Wind Up in a Shelter</u></b>. Until this handbook becomes available (and on Kindle), it would be great if humans recognized that there is a 100% chance that a terrier will dig and a 100% chance that a beagle will go through the trash (percentages made up by author, who is definitely wrong because all dogs are individuals).<br /><br />Training can help dogs and humans get on the same page, but unfortunately, only 19% of dogs have formal training. Because perceived behavior "problems" can be associated with our expectations of dogs, a less anthropocentric view of dogs might help the dog-human relationship. That entails getting to know dogs for who they are, and that’s where Dr. Alexandra Horowitz comes in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://psychology.barnard.edu/profiles/ahorowit" target="_blank"><b>Dr. Alexandra Horowitz</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Dogs are anthropologists of us,” reminds Dr. Horowitz. They read us, look at us, see us. They hold mutual gaze which can give us the feeling of understanding and intimacy. But does this understanding go both ways? Is our reading of dogs as good as their reading of us?<br /><br />Instead of looking at dogs on the surface, Horowitz explained how experiments can explore dogs’ inner perspective. She reviewed two such studies -- conducted by her research group (which I manage, so I clearly have no bias) -- one investigating how dogs behave when treated unfairly and the other exploring whether the so-called guilty look maps to a knowledge of disobedience or is instead a response to owner scolding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The main message: The dog's take on a situation is not always the same as that of humans. Dogs are not simply little people dressed in awesome coats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Intelligence is not a have-or-have-not concept. Every species excels in different areas based on what they need to thrive in their niche. Dogs are socially savvy but, left to their own devices, are not particularly masters of the physical world. When a dog encounters a problem in its physical environment, many will not likely seek out a solution. But bring on a human to indicate a solution, particularly by way of pointing or gazing, and dogs take that information and literally run with it. <br /><br />When scientists ask whether non-human animals use tools, the answer is an obvious yes. Every day all around the world, a dog turns to its tool -- I mean “owner” -- barks loudly, and then someone gives that dog exactly what she wants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Moore, a zoo-based animal behaviorist, moderated the event and introduced each speaker by the number of legs found in their home. Dr. Serpell has the most legs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The evening’s message was clear: Throughout the world, many two-legs live with many four-legs. But despite thousands of years together, the dog is still not “known</span><span style="font-size: large;">”</span><span style="font-size: large;">. Our job: recognize this and get to know dogs for who they really are. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dr. James Serpell</b>, PhD <a href="http://www.vet.upenn.edu/facultyanddepartments/faculty/tabid/362/default.aspx?faculty_id=6361798" target="_blank">Director of the Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society and Professor at University of Pennsylvania Veterinary Medicine</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dr. Steve Zawistowski</b>, PhD, CAAB <a href="http://www.certifiedanimalbehaviorist.com/bios/szawis.html" target="_blank">ASPCA Science Advisor</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dr. Alexandra Horowitz</b>, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology at Barnard College <a href="http://www.dogcognition.com/" target="_blank">Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Evan Maclean</b>, PhD Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/research/dogs" target="_blank">Duke Canine Cognition Center</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Dr. Don Moore</b>, PhD <a href="http://nationalzoo.si.edu/AboutUs/Staff/BiosAndProfiles/MooreDon.cfm" target="_blank">Associate Director of Animal Care at Smithsonian National Zoo</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://nationalzoo.si.edu/AboutUs/Staff/BiosAndProfiles/MooreDon.cfm" target="_blank"> </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>References</b></u><br />Gorman, James. ‘What Is’ Meets ‘What if’: The Role of Speculation in Science. May 24, 2012. New York Times</span></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-4179433808500188562012-06-08T07:21:00.002-08:002012-06-08T07:27:53.798-08:00Get behind H*mping in Bark Magazine (Part 2)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes the world works in perfect harmony, and today’s harmony is brought to us by the delectable union of<b> <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/" target="_blank">The Daily Show</a> dogs</b> and <b><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2012/03/hmping_14.html" target="_blank">H*mping</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">YES! In the current issue of <a href="http://www.thebark.com/content/magazine" target="_blank">The Bark</a> you can find a piece about the dogs who spend their days chillin' at The Daily Show studio and my article on H*mping in dogs (maybe some of The Daily Show dogs are humpers. I'd have to guess that's a definite yes).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><br />If you don't know what <a href="http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/videos/betty-white-meets-the-dogs-of-the-daily-show" target="_blank">Betty White</a> knows about The Daily Show dogs or if you see H*mping all around and have some question marks behind the behavior, pick up the latest <a href="http://www.thebark.com/content/magazine" target="_blank">Bark</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>* <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">The * in <b>H*mping</b> was intended to signify respect for the behavior, as in <a href="http://judaism.about.com/od/judaismbasics/a/Why-Do-Some-Jews-Spell-God-G-D.htm" target="_blank">G-d</a>, but I see how it can also play on its taboo status. I say, bring on the respect and understanding, and let's throw the taboo out the window.</span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-52419107667136148682012-05-31T14:48:00.000-08:002012-05-31T14:56:17.477-08:00The “guilty look” in dogs! [from a new angle]<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2010, I lived in Budapest, and when not eating sauerkraut or mispronouncing simple Hungarian phrases such as “<a href="http://www.single-serving.com/Hungarian/TB/basics/basics-old.mp3" target="_blank">excuse me</a>” I conducted a study investigating what owners describe as the “guilty look” in dogs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Márta Gácsi and Ádám Miklósi of the <a href="http://familydogproject.elte.hu/" target="_blank">Family Dog Project</a> were my super supervisors. Fast forward a mere two years later, and the study is now published in <a href="http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/applan/article/S0168-1591%2812%2900065-2/abstract" target="_blank">Applied Animal Behaviour Science</a> -- just to give you a sense of the speed of science vs. the rest of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is not the first time the “guilty look” in dogs has been explored experimentally. Back in the late 1970s, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/586067" target="_blank">Vollmer</a> investigated the “guilty look” with a dog indicted for shredding paper in the owner’s absence. More recently, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19520245" target="_blank">Alexandra Horowitz</a>, whose <a href="http://www.dogcognition.com/" target="_blank">Dog Cognition Lab</a> I manage, found that dogs produced the guilty look when scolded and that this look of “guilt” was not indicative of an appreciation of a misdeed. Want more details? Check out earlier posts: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/03/is-denver-dog-really-guilty.html" target="_blank">"Guilt" Part 1 - Is Denver the dog really guilty?</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is why the qualifier in my title — from a new angle — is important. Our study investigated the "guilty look" in a particular context that many many many many many many dog owners talk about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It goes something like this: If you suggest that the <b>guilty look</b> is a <i><b>product of owner scolding</b></i> and not that the dog understands its misdeed (per Vollmer's and Horowitz’s research), most owners respond with, “Uhhhhh... Okaaay....”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then comes the sideways smirk and raised “I got you” eyebrows, “But one day I came home and didn’t know Mr. Pumpkin had gotten in the trash, and he looked guilty EVEN BEFORE I found the trash all over the floor!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, that conversation. So our “guilty look” study explored that anecdote: That dogs are said to look "guilty" even before owners discover the misdeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's where I'll end and Scientific American Blogger, Jason Goldman, will take over in <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/05/31/do-dogs-feel-guilty/" target="_blank">Do Dogs Feel Guilty?</a> where he recently summarized our study on The Thoughtful Animal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hecht, J., </span></b>Miklósi, Á., Gácsi., M., 2012. <a href="http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/applan/article/S0168-1591%2812%2900065-2/abstract" target="_blank">Behavioral assessment and owner perceptions of behaviors associated with guilt in dogs</a>. Applied Animal Behaviour Science</span><b></b>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-38392163978846034732012-04-24T20:26:00.000-08:002012-05-02T21:10:18.238-08:00Spring is in the air! Puppies everywhere!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">What’s the cutest initiative out there? A puppy initiative, of course. And the sad thing is, it’s needed. <br /><br />According to research, we think puppies are the cutest. No, I’m not kidding. There is research on this. Researchers in Italy compared how people responded to puppies as opposed to small dogs hanging out on the street. Their goal was to investigate whether people are attracted merely to small dogs or if it is a dog’s “puppiness” that really gets us going. The answer: a resounding <i>“We want puppies!”</i><br /><br />Unfortunately, puppies don’t stay puppies forever. What was once considered <i>“Oh! She’s so cute! It’s okay, nibble on my shoe! AWW you’re so cute!” </i>very quickly becomes <i>“No! No! Bad Dog!”</i><br /><br /><b>Notice a difference?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How can we keep puppies in the hearts (and homes) of humans and prevent cries of <i>“No! No! Bad Dog!”</i>? </b><br /><br />Dr. Ian Dunbar has been in the business of keeping puppies in the home since 1980 when he founded <a href="http://www.siriuspup.com/" target="_blank">Sirius Dog Training</a>, the first off-leash puppy training program. <br /><br />To celebrate their 30th birthday, Dunbar, Sirius Dog Training and <a href="http://www.dogstardaily.com/" target="_blank">Dog Star Daily</a> have launched a <b><span style="color: blue;">Puppy Raising Initiative</span></b>. What is a puppy raising initiative? It’s not where you get lots of puppies in the same place and raise them. It’s a way for prospective and new puppy owners to get a heck of a lot of information and a heck of a lot of support. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Step 1: Provide free stuff</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Anyone, from owners and trainers to your dog-loving grandmother, can <span style="color: black;">download two of Dunbar’s eBooks for free</span>, <u><i>Before You Get Your Puppy</i></u> and <u><i>After</i><i> You Get Your Puppy</i></u>. <a href="http://www.dogstardaily.com/free-downloads" target="_blank">Download them</a>, read them and raise that puppy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>Step 2: Come together, all dog professionals</b><br />Spread the word about puppy training and the importance of early-life experiences. Breeders, veterinarians, retailers, trainers, shelters and rescue groups can customize the two free eBooks with their business name and contact information and distribute to clients. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dog professionals can burn the customized books and Behavior Blueprints (plus articles) to a CD for duplication and distribute to veterinarians, pet stores, breeders and shelters. Learn more <a href="http://www.dogstardaily.com/training/sirius-puppy-raising-initiative-dog-professionals-breeders-veterinarians-pet-stores-trainer" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><b>Step 3: Connect with prospective and new puppy owners</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> As Dunbar explains,<i> “New puppy owners are largely unaware of the extreme urgency of maintaining errorless house-training and chewtoy-training programs and continuing to safely socialize puppies with people during their first couple of months at home. The necessary information is available but the challenge is to make sure that prospective and new puppy owners have the information at the appropriate time — when they are searching for or have just acquired a new puppy.” </i><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many puppy owners don’t initially have training on the brain. But breeders, shelters, rescue groups and veterinarians can direct puppy owners to trainers! Dunbar urges professionals (with access to puppies) to advise new puppy owners to consult with a trainer as soon as possible. Live with a puppy? Thinking of living with a puppy? Like puppies? Click <a href="http://www.dogstardaily.com/training/sirius-puppy-raising-initiative-prospective-and-new-puppy-owners" target="_blank">here</a>. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's to preventing <i>“No! No! Bad Dog!”</i> See you in puppy class.</span></div>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's no secret that dogs will hold onto, well, just about anything -- pigs, ducks, cats, big dogs, little dogs, blankets, couches, toys, pillows, dog heads, dog legs, human legs and even the infamous full on human body grab.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the same time, dog mounting behavior, or "humping," is not necessarily a comfortable topic for us humans. I am currently in a busy coffee shop screening images for this blog post, and are people looking at my computer screen for a few seconds too long? Am I getting double-takes and sideways glances? Yes and yes.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even though most of us are here on this planet because two people, at some point, shut the door and engaged in a similar activity, <i>"shut the door"</i> may be the operative phrase when it comes to our comfort with h*mping. It's all around us, it brought us here, but we're not talking about it.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dogs on the other hand, do not share this <i>"shut the door"</i> approach, and they certainly have no qualms about humping behind or in front of closed doors. Nor does this behavior in dogs only appear in the context of producing offspring. Like most things involving the Big H, it's more complicated. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So let's discuss h*mping.</b> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Does your dog do it and with whom? And just as important, how do you feel about it, and what do you think it's all about?</span></i>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-84338711044191811512012-02-28T05:53:00.009-09:002012-02-28T06:46:04.332-09:00The birds and the bees and the octopuses too<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqhhlgnRXIP5ZXTnzlP6QgoDTvPAs_rACuXzlV68zkC82hKKVJdK2d13YBNNq_66zjA987ln23ybcIY3BvZ1rAL6KqTe6hiVOVjfRziq_pKshSQXXXqPH1tcpgcQXv48MqzhNl064jcXk/s1600/Bee_Octopus_Parrot_Chocolate+cake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqhhlgnRXIP5ZXTnzlP6QgoDTvPAs_rACuXzlV68zkC82hKKVJdK2d13YBNNq_66zjA987ln23ybcIY3BvZ1rAL6KqTe6hiVOVjfRziq_pKshSQXXXqPH1tcpgcQXv48MqzhNl064jcXk/s320/Bee_Octopus_Parrot_Chocolate+cake.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Octopuses, bees and birds made an appearance in my life earlier this month. This is not the part in the blog where I recount my dreams -- although Gargamel and a giant bee used to chase me around the rings of Saturn.<br />
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As you might expect, bees are more than their sting, octopuses more than their alien appearance and birds more than their “bird brain.” That’s according to their human translators, a panel of experts brought to Hunter College in NYC by <a href="http://www.thinkinganimals.org/" target="_blank">Thinking Animals</a>, a group dedicated to sharing the cognitive and behavioral perspectives of non-human animals. Here are some of the highlights of the panel.</span><br />
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</div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Bird brains</b><br />
“HEY! Where’s my chocolate cake??!!??” <br />
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Inside the fridge, staring back at you, is the lack of chocolate gooiness, a gaping hole of emptiness where the chocolate cake should be. Your expectation has been violated, and you are affected by the lack of something. You set off to maim your brother, the obvious culprit.<br />
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In this context, behaviors associated with being startled, upset or confused actually tell us something. We would only expect to see behaviors associated with <i>absence</i> if an individual has the expectation or concept of <i>presence</i>. <br />
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What about birds? Dr. Irene Pepperberg, founder and President of <a href="http://alexfoundation.org/dr-irene-pepperberg/" target="_blank">The Alex Foundation</a>, finds that parrots change their behavior when their expectations have been violated... minus the brother-maiming. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In one test, Pepperberg pretended to hide a desirable cashew, but instead hid a normal nugget. When Alex and Griffin, two African grey parrots, discovered the pellet instead of the cashew, their behavior changed. <i>“Alex... turned away, slit his eyes, puffed his feathers, slightly opened his wings, and lowered his head.... Griffin threw all the cups onto the floor”</i> (Wise, 2002).<br />
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Not so “bird brained” after all.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Bees shakin’ that thang</b><br />
If the fact that bees perform a waggle dance isn’t cool enough for you, the dance not only informs others in the hive where to find food, it also indicates food sweetness, distance, quantity, odor intensity and ease of extraction (apparently bees prefer long, thin tubes over wide shapes). And all this is conveyed through a dance! A DANCE! And from a being with a wee little brain! </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In this image, bees appear controlled by a godly ray of light. Watch the below video for a better explanation. </td></tr>
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The dance explanation: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ijI-g4jHg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ijI-g4jHg</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
According to <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/eeb/people/display_person.xml?netid=gould&display=Faculty" target="_blank">Dr. Jim Gould</a>, a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, <i>“experiments suggest that recruits, having attended a dance in the hive specifying the distance and direction of a food source, can evaluate the ‘plausibility’ of the location without leaving the hive; this suggests a kind of <b>imagination</b>” </i>(Gould, 1990).</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Which of course makes me wonder about <b>imagination in dogs</b>, a topic recently discussed on a Scientific American blog post, <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2011/09/07/animal-imagination-the-dog-that-pretended-to-feed-a-frog-and-other-tales/" target="_blank">Animal Imagination: The Dog That Pretended to Feed a Frog (and other tales).</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Octopuses?</b><br />
Difference in form doesn’t imply that a heck of a lot isn’t going on in the octopus world. For example, what about consciousness? That’s what <a href="http://www.nsi.edu/index.php?page=david_b_edelman" target="_blank">Dr. David Edelman</a>, our octopus translator and an Associate Fellow in Experimental Neurobiology at The Neuroscience Institute in San Diego, is considering. <br />
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Edelman suggests that consciousness could be investigated in widely different <a href="http://www.ebiomedia.com/the-animal-phyla.html" target="_blank">phyla</a>. Why octopuses? In Dr. Edelman’s words, <i>“If you wanted to test any invertebrate for what we might call consciousness, the octopus seems like a good bet, with about half a billion neurons in total and many hetreogeneous brain lobes. It’s an interesting animal with a very sophisticated set of sensorimotor adaptations, which look like a very good set of constituent elements that would go into a potentially conscious system.”</i> **</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
So what do octopuses have up their tentacles? I’ll let these videos do the talking:<br />
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Social learning in octopuses? Check <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The</span> <span style="color: #0b5394;">ability</span> <span style="color: #38761d;">to change</span> <span style="color: #b45f06;">color</span> <span style="color: #b4a7d6;">and texture</span> <span style="color: #ea9999;">to match</span> <span style="color: #ffd966;">surroundings?</span> Check <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDTtkZlMwM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmDTtkZlMwM</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
After watching this video you will have no choice but to share it on Twitter, Facebook, and weave it into any talk you give, even if it’s about breast feeding.<br />
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<b>Looking ahead</b><br />
And this is just the beginning. Over the next few months, <a href="http://www.thinkinganimals.org/home.html" target="_blank">Thinking Animals</a> continues its lecture series. Join experts from across the globe to explore the worlds of non-human animals.<br />
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<b>Up next!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.thinkinganimals.org/lecture_series.html" target="_blank">Exploring Creative Minds</a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> with </span><span class="greenTitle" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Marc Bekoff, Dorothy Fragaszy, Kevin McGowan, Diana Reiss & Moderator: Stuart Firestein</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Hunter College in NYC<br />
March 2, 2012 @ 7 PM </b></i><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>For example, what's behind dolphins' "perma-smile"?</i><b> </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Glorious references!</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Gould, J., 1990. Honey bee cognition. Cognition 37, 83-103.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wise, S., 2002. Drawing the line: science and the case for animal rights. p. 101-102.<br />
**Google: Interviews on consciousness - Dr. David Edelman Cephalove</span></span></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-76853406655512614362011-12-21T04:47:00.005-09:002012-06-26T18:00:54.315-08:00Why is a stranger’s crotch more interesting than mine? (Part 2)<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Here is a recap of the study we discussed in Part 1, <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/12/oh-hello-why-yes-thats-my-crotch-part-1.html" target="_blank">Oh, hello! Why yes, that's my crotch</a> *:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: blue;">Crotch factoid #1:</span> Dogs entered a room, saw their owner lying on the floor, and the dogs gave considerable sniffing attention to their owners' upper body.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: blue;">Crotch factoid #2:</span> Dogs entered a room, saw a stranger lying on the floor, and the dog initially went for the crotch.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Why this difference? <i>Why is a stranger's crotch initially so much more interesting than mine?</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Let's first consider why owners' crotches were not initially sniffed. It's possible that dogs do not sniff owners' crotches because owners have taught them not to!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">For many humans, crotch sniffing is considered irritating, embarrassing and offensive. Not surprisingly, 1,009 people "like" the facebook page, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Hate-Dogs-That-Sniff-My-Crotch/178621827085" target="_blank">I Hate Dogs That Sniff My Crotch</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In response, the web suggests ways to prevent crotch sniffing. Some suggest teaching the dog to perform a behavior incompatible with crotch sniffing (such as lying down) and others suggest using words or actions to dissuade the dog from crotch sniffing. Regardless of the training method, it is plausible owners could eliminate crotch sniffing from their dog's owner-directed behavioral repertoire.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">At the same time, it seems highly unlikely that an owner would train a dog not to sniff the owner's own crotch, yet allow dogs to continue sniffing strangers' crotches. Since the study under consideration found lots of stranger-directed crotch action, what could be going on?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">A better explanation comes from the olfactory content of the human body. We are aware of some of our odors, such as BO, and others evade our consciousness. This is where dogs come in.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Upon coming across a stranger, dogs are interested in doing an ID check, similar to when you are at a holiday party and you ask someone for their business card. This little piece of thick paper (which you examine visually) provides initial information about the person standing before you. Putting the business card in your mouth or sniffing it offers no information about the other person. As a human, you can look, talk and listen to learn about others (although olfaction can play a role, particularly when someone puts on too much perfume, or, ahem, not enough).</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">For dogs, crotch sniffing had nothing to do with getting to third base. Instead, it is more akin to looking over a business card. One of the places we humans keep our business cards is in our crotches, in a set of glands called the <a href="http://www.aad.org/education-and-quality-care/medical-student-core-curriculum/eccrine-and-apocrine-glands" target="_blank">apocrine glands</a>. While apocrine glands are found in a number of hairy regions of the human body, they are heavily concentrated in the anogenital (crotch) region. These glands secrete pheromones **, chemicals that enable olfactory communication with others, particularly concerning identity. Investigating a stranger's crotch simply orients a dog to the individuality of that person.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">On the other hand, when a dog enters a room and sees an owner, through the gift of sight, the dog registers, <i>"Person I know well is right there!" </i>The dog knows who they are dealing with and does not need to go for the crotch. They can move on and gather more general information about you, the owner, such as where you've been and how you're feeling (unlike teenagers, our bodies don't lie).</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Of note, you the human reading this blog, release volatile organic compounds, or VOCs***. Your breath, for example, contains many many VOCs which are both generated by your own body and picked up from the environment at large. In a sense, you are a walking science experiment, picking up odors and producing them on your own, and a dog who knows you is immediately interested in smelling your chemicals.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Regardless of whether you are a stranger to a dog or it's owner, we humans are odorous sacks of information, and dogs will sniff <u>many</u> different parts of our bodies. But during an initial interaction with either a known or unknown person, dogs differ in their preliminary points of contact.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Many thanks to </i><a href="https://www.carroll.edu/academics/hab/faculty.cc" target="_blank"><i>Tom Brownlee</i></a><i> for always setting me straight when it comes to scent and olfaction.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">*Filiatre et al., 1991. Behavioural variability of olfactory exploration of the pet dog in relation to human adults. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 30, 341-350.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">**Grammer et al., 2004. Human pheromones and sexual attraction. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 118, 135-142.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">***Martin et al., 2010. Human breath analysis: methods for sample collection and reduction of localized background effects. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 396, 739-750.</span></span></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-8295057828736522492011-12-11T14:50:00.013-09:002011-12-13T19:45:07.198-09:00Oh, hello! Why yes, that’s my crotch! (Part 1)<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">The holiday season is in full swing. But before you dive into Aunt Bessie’s famous cookies, you might have to get past a few pinched cheeks and possibly some bad breath.<br />
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You know what I'm talking about -- from handshakes and hand-kisses, to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUdWApwbudQ" target="_blank">“man hugs"</a> and double kisses, between now and New Years, we humans enter hardcore greeting mode. </span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5DaDEHTT2x4w-cfWmLtG6lh8xRATPfw8SOTlpDgyP3RNNlGWosbNqS7fyfKCkhUUPtpInMR3AcV9PkhunqAw_LXzTQEi2qTCQHJdh3w9XhKy5CFpTyi4gVBrl5iwIiOG4Hg8wdF07hQU/s1600/denis_thatcher_nancy_reagan_1988.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5DaDEHTT2x4w-cfWmLtG6lh8xRATPfw8SOTlpDgyP3RNNlGWosbNqS7fyfKCkhUUPtpInMR3AcV9PkhunqAw_LXzTQEi2qTCQHJdh3w9XhKy5CFpTyi4gVBrl5iwIiOG4Hg8wdF07hQU/s1600/denis_thatcher_nancy_reagan_1988.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"> Accompanying the acceptable greeting rituals noted above, we also engage in the more discrete variety: the up-and-down glance we get from our sister as we enter the party (I hope she didn’t notice that I’m wearing her bracelet!); the feeling that someone tried to get a look at your shoes without you noticing (of course you noticed). This is what we do. We check each other out.<br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">What about dogs? Come holiday season, any dog who’s a fan of people will most certainly put on his greeting hat. <b>And when dogs are greeting people or checking people out, they tend to go for the crotch.</b> Or do they?<b> </b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Back in 1991, Filiatre et al. published a study: <u>Behavioural variability of olfactory exploration of the pet dog in relation to human adults</u>. In English, this translates to: <u>Do dogs differ in how they sniff their owners vs how they sniff strangers?</u></span><br />
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The researchers created a study with two parts. In part one, they observed pet dogs sniffing their owners. In part two, pet dogs sniffed an unknown person. The researchers then studied which human body parts received the most attention from the dogs and their sniffers.<br />
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The first thing you are probably wondering: how exactly were people sniffed? (not something you ask every day). For the sniffing simulation, the human subjects entered a test room where they lay motionless on the floor with their eyes closed. Once on the floor, the dog entered the room and was observed for 5 minutes. <br />
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To collect the sniffing data, the human body was divided into 10 regions (see below). Researchers could then easily observe where dogs were directing their sniffing. I might add, this mock human has abnormally small feet and nice underwear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b>The sniffing report</b><br />
On the whole, dogs spent more time sniffing their owners than the strangers. <br />
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Dogs differed in <i>how</i> they sniffed. When it came to sniffing their owners, dogs showed particular interest in the <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thorax" target="_blank">thorax</a> and arms. On the other hand, in the presence of a stranger, dog focused more on the <a href="http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/anogenital" target="_blank">ano-genital</a> area and thighs. Whether you are more familiar with the terms “privates”, “bits and pieces”, “caboose”, “backdoor”, “flower pot” or “Rocky Mountain Freeway”, no matter how you slice it, dogs were more into sniffing the <b>crotch and thighs of strangers</b> compared to the crotch and thighs of their owners.<br />
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For you visual learners, below is a picture detailing the movement of the dog’s muzzle over the body. <b>Top image</b>: sniffing a known person; <b>Bottom Image</b>: sniffing a stranger. <i>Check out that crotch attention! </i></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjENEtDWiUxwYlOEJ0tfmqoqU5B9UZyVruAsg-5FAFnRX3Bypjw3Lks-n1jpVJPlA1CKxqoIIB6EqnQBk683ssyPDk6AosV_bR0Z3SxPaMWWaHP6UCex41w-GWOyqovMM2aP9rn-6WVDYU/s1600/Images+with+titles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjENEtDWiUxwYlOEJ0tfmqoqU5B9UZyVruAsg-5FAFnRX3Bypjw3Lks-n1jpVJPlA1CKxqoIIB6EqnQBk683ssyPDk6AosV_bR0Z3SxPaMWWaHP6UCex41w-GWOyqovMM2aP9rn-6WVDYU/s400/Images+with+titles.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">So why might your dog get all up in Aunt Bessie’s crotch during the holidays? Simply put, he hasn’t seen her in a year! But maybe if you invited her over for tea more often.... <br />
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Tune in next time for <i>Part 2: Why is a stranger’s crotch so much more interesting than mine?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Filiatre, J.C., Millot, J.L., Eckerlin, A., 1991. <i>Behavioural variability of olfactory exploration of the pet dog in relation to human adults</i>. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 30, 341-350</span></span>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-78469924167546585112011-10-13T11:07:00.005-08:002011-10-13T11:19:01.706-08:00Fido never does that. This woman is crazy.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I recently gave a public lecture at the Norman Rockwell Museum, </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What Dogs Know: A Scientific Guide to Understanding Your Canine Companion</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Why did they let a dog nut like me into the museum? Because dogs abound in Rockwell’s canvases.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(and while the dog might not necessarily attach the same importance to the new Plymouth, he/she is certainly excited to participate in the excitement and join the family activity of looking out the window).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rockwell captures how dogs seem to effortlessly join our activities, and I presented the science, not just the nostalgia, behind this relationship.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Public lectures remind me that in addition to (hopefully) listening to what I’m saying, people are comparing my words and information with their personal experiences of dogs.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>“Yes! Banjo does that all the time! That’s so funny!”</i> or <i>“Fido never does that. This woman is crazy.”</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And they would both be right (Except for the crazy bit. (No, even the crazy bit)).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The reason they would both be right is that canine behavioral researchers never say, “Every dog does (fill in the blank) every time.” In fact, researchers would never say that because that would make them liars.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For example, the below graph* shows how different species follow a human’s pointing gesture to a target location (the white and black bars represent different types of pointing gestures). Even though the graphs show the mean, you can see that no species follows the pointing gesture to the target location 100% of the time. That’s okay! What excites researchers is that these species follow the gesture above chance (which is the horizontal line at 50%). </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">would expect that individuals don’t perform at 100% either. <a href="http://dogspies.blogspot.com/2011/01/selective-breeding-olympics-droopy-vs.html">In an earlier post</a>, I described a study finding that dogs from cooperative worker breeds follow a human’s pointing gesture better than mutts or dogs bred to work independently**. And on a group level, that’s true. But individual variation within the groups is also true. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When studies report differences </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at the group level</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, we most definitely will find </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">individual variation</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> within those groups.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To put it on our terms, like me, you are an individual. But we can also be placed into various groups. For example, I am part of a group of females with brown hair, straight top teeth who graduated from UW-Madison. If I were standing in a room of women, all members of this group, we would certainly find similarities and differences. In fact, some of us might even not like dogs. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">* </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Miklósi, Á., Soproni, K. 2006. A comparative analysis of animals' understanding of the human pointing gesture. Animal Cognition, 9: 81-93. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">** </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gácsi, McGreevy, Kara and Ádám Miklósi, 2009. Effects of selection for cooperation and attention in dogs. Behavioral and Brain Functions</span></span></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-25187189544921932842011-09-27T14:05:00.003-08:002012-08-29T16:39:18.929-08:00Where Should Dogs Put Their Tongues?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">"What happened at WoofStock?" you've been wondering. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Unlike Woodstock, it did not rain for 3 days straight, although a number of dogs deemed the leg of my information booth an appropriate urination spot. Apart from that, Woofstock substantially differed from Woodstock. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.cpaawoofstock.com/">WoofStock</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">, on the bank of the Susquehanna River, provided a plethora of activities for dogs and people: all-day pet blessings, adoptable dogs running amuck, authors signing books, pet treats galore and pet safety tips with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.harrisonforbes.com/">Harrison Forbes</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">.</span><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I saw a greater number of Great Danes than would be expected.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I saw many small dogs in strollers (as would be expected).</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I saw a number of dogs with physical characteristics not particularly in their best interests, either from human assistance (fat dogs) or genetic "assistance" (Pugs whose tongues don’t quite fit in their mouths).</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I pushed through a crowd of people oohing over this “sooo cute” Pug and his enormous tongue. Researchers have actually been looking at this tongue for quite some time.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In 1963, Dr. M.W. </span></span><a href="http://www.twobitdog.com/DrFox/about.aspx"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Fox</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">, a prominent animal behavior scientist and veterinarian, published<i><b> </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><i>Developmental Abnormalities of the Canine Skull</i></b>.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">* That's right. Over 40 years ago, he investigated the canine skull of brachycephalic dogs, such as the Pug.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(<b>Fun definition time</b>: <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/brachycephalic">Brachycephalic</a> ("brackee-seff-alik") dogs have broad and short heads."Brachy" means "short" and "cephalic" means "relating to the head”. Some examples are Boxers, Bulldogs, Bullmastifs, Cavalier King Charles spaniels, Chow-chows, French bulldogs, Newfoundlands, Pugs, Rottweillers and Shar peis).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oversize of the tongue: “Tongue-doesn’t-fit-in-mouth” syndrome! (my term)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Through decades of breeding, we created a dog who can have difficulty breathing and whose tongue doesn’t fit in his mouth. It's interesting that we do that because, for example, we don't breed humans to look like <a href="http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi1070596121/">Massive Head-wound Harry</a>. For a moment, let's consider the two</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> parties involved in this story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>The dog's perspective</b>: What would a Pug do in the heat if he experienced shortness of breath and a human weren't around to pick him up and carry him home? Would a Pug even exist in the world of dogs if humans were not there selecting for his particular appearance?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>The human's perspective</b>: You bring a Pug into your life and you might have to address medical conditions (like your dog having trouble breathing). You might even have to shell out big bucks for some sort of surgery to correct your dog’s inherited <a href="http://www.michvetanimalhospital.com/page/421552122">brachycephalic airways syndrome</a>. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">When picturing surgery, our minds tend to mull over things like, "How much will it cost?" and "What will the recovery look like?" </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We don't tend to conceptualize what is actually happening. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With the help of research from veterinary journals, I can show you what <b><i>Canine Brachycephalic Airway Syndrome: Surgical Management</i></b>*** looks like! Remember that the purpose of this procedure is simple: to help a dog breathe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For example, I recently received a heart-warming story about a dog born without his two front legs. Lacking front legs </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">During natural disasters, animals can confront new and scary situations, such as quickly being put in a weird small box (aka crate or carrier), hanging out with unfamiliar people (rescuers) or interacting with an owner who is incredibly scared, stressed and exhibiting atypical body movements. Natural disasters create a situation where much can go wrong between animals and their human companions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A recent study* examined the prevalence of domestic animal bites following Hurricane Ike in September 2008. It turns out that bites from domestic animals were one of the top three trauma complaints at disaster medical facilities.</span></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">55% were from dogs, 40% from cats and 5% from snakes</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8.33333px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">80% were </span></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">bitten by their own dog or cat</span></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8.33333px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">100% </span></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">knew the dog or cat who bit them</span></b></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most of the bites were severe and occurred within the first 72 hours after the hurricane</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 8.33333px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most bites involved the hands</span></b></span></li>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to the study, people described their bites as being “unprovoked and unanticipated from a pet that typically was non-aggressive.” </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Really? During natural disasters, typically well-behaved dogs and cats suddenly bite owners in the hand for seemingly no reason? What is up with that? Most likely, in a stressful situation, humans are trying to grab or manipulate animals in atypical ways (probably to get them to safety) and animals are “freaking out” and “acting out of character.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Shoving an animal into a box does not qualify as “getting them accustomed.” Training an animal to enter a crate/carrier is easy peasy, and here are some wonderful instructional videos.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">- <a href="http://www.dogstardaily.com/videos/training/53" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Introducing dog to crate</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Click on the top video with 4 stars)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001ba6; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRGKJ8FCH94" target="_blank">Introducing cat to carrier</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Main point: teach animals what to expect before the need arises! When emergency sirens blow, you point to the crate, Fido goes in, gets a cong to chew on and you both leave the house in peace! </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When interacting with an animal during a natural disaster, you might be freaking out -- it’s an emergency after all! Customarily a-okay interactions could be problematic during this stressful event. GO SLOW! </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Veterinar<span style="font-size: large;">ian </span><a href="http://drsophiayin.com/about/" target="_blank">Sophia Yin</a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>reminds us </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://drsophiayin.com/blog/entry/preventing-dog-bites-stop-dog-aggression-before-it-starts" target="_blank">How to Prevent a Bite</a></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://drsophiayin.com/blog/entry/how-to-greet-a-dog-ebook-free-download-for-one-week-only" target="_blank">How to Greet a Dog</a></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. You might not think this is relevant for you and your own dog; after all, you know your dog! But hurricanes change things, and it'<span style="font-size: large;">s important</span> to be aware of how your behavior can impact your pet's behavior.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This weekend, I and the rest of north Brooklyn were relatively unscathed by Hurricane Irene. This time, the storm turned out to have more bark than bite.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Warner, G.S., 2010. <i><a href="http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu/Volume_25/issue_2/warner.pdf" target="_blank">Increased Incidence of Domestic Animal Bites following a Disaster Due to Natural Hazards</a></i>. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to <a href="http://www.apdt.com/conf/archive/2010/speakers/bio_Collins.aspx" target="_blank">Kristen Collins of the ASPCA</a> for input on this post!</span></div>
Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6422702528328512043.post-11429050966259316542011-07-28T14:59:00.013-08:002011-07-30T07:44:58.062-08:00”Dog People” are from Pluto, and “Cat People” are from Jupiter?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some folks think of themselves as “dog people,” and others swear allegiance to cats. Venture into other countries, and you’ll find similar discourse: in Hungary, people proclaim themselves “</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">macskás vagyok” or “</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">kutyás vagyok”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (kutya means dog), and in France they say “</span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">je suis un homme de chien”.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="color: #272727; font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But behind self-proclamations, we don’t have many concrete answers. <i><b>Are there really personality differences between dog people and cat people? </b></i>And, if so, can empirical investigation reveal these differences? (Hint: the answer is yes!) </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Enter Samuel Gosling. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I tend towards mild obsessions. Back in third grade, it was Alcatraz (the bird man in particular). Then I moved back to land and was all about earthquakes and the Richter scale. Then it was Leonardo DiCaprio.</span></span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Since joining the dog cognition field, I continue with this tendency, and today’s target is </span></span><a href="http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/Faculty/Gosling/index.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Samuel Gosling</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas-Austin. </span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gosling’s research on ‘what your stuff says about you’ was highlighted in Malcom Gladwell’s book, </span></span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=VKGbb1hg8JAC&pg=PT26&lpg=PT26&dq=Gladwell+gosling&source=bl&ots=XrTl6YWh-V&sig=y1XA4mnbsu-7hMDrbjIiRIb1D1U&hl=en&ei=y8QtTuTkOKXW0gGY1uHeBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAQ%23v=onepage&q&f=false"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blink</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. But today, we’re not discussing the dirty underwear on the back of your chair, we’re talking about Gosling’s 2010 paper in Anthrozoös</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span></span></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Personalities of Self-Identified “Dog People” and “Cat People”.</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i></i></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gosling is notable because he practices quality science while making you smile. He begins his paper with, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.” </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(</span></span><a href="http://Anthrozo%C3%B6s/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mary Bly</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">). </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Taking a mental message<br />
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</tbody></table></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dogs and cats are quite different from one another, both behaviorally and physiologically. It is widely believed that a person’s preference for either </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Canis lupus familiaris</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> or </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Felis catus</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> says something about who you are. For example, one big difference is that cats aren’t hyper social and dogs are. (See </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pwI8ti6Jhk"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Animals Make Us Human</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Temple Grandin for an awesome description of various species’ needs and differences).</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #001ba6;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://1funny.com/lazy-cat/">http://1funny.com/lazy-cat/</a></span></span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gosling et al., set out to examine:<b> Are there</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b> personality differences between </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>"dog people" and "cat people"?</b></span></div></div></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Study methods</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gosling’s large-scale study included 4,565 online participants, ages 10 to 95, from many countries and many ethnicities. Participants completed an online questionnaire, <b>The Big Five Personality Test</b> (</span></span><a href="http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">view test here</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">). This Test was developed in the 1970s by </span></span><a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~johnlab/bfi.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">researchers</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> who found that personality traits could be boiled down to five broad dimensions, regardless of language or culture (awesome!). </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In research circles, The Big Five is the most widely accepted model to assess personality. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The dimensions are:</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Extraversion</b> - </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">talkative, energetic, assertive</span></span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Agreeableness</b> - </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sympathetic, kind, affectionate</span></span></i></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Conscientiousness</b> - </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">organized, thorough</span></span></i></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Neuroticism</b> - </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">tense, moody, anxiou</span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">s</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Openness</b> - </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">having wide interests, being imaginative</span></span></i></span></li>
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<div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In Gosling’s study, people completed The Big Five Personality Test and then self-identified as a cat person, a dog person, both, or neither.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Slight digression</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You may be thinking, “What? Nobody investigated this topic prior to 2010? This is wack! Obviously </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">dog people</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> are different from </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cat people</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">!” (insert whatever stereotypes you have in your head).</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of course you are right! Other studies investigated this topic, but there are issues with previous work:</span></span></span></div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Non-diverse sample size</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> - Some studies only relied on college-educated people, pet owners or women and this could generate selection bias. For example, I do not presently reside with animals (apart from a human animal), but I definitely have an opinion on this topic. If only pet owners are surveyed, my opinion would not be included. Gosling surveyed from the internet, attaining a more diverse sample. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Small sample size</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> - If you want to make a statement about the personality differences between dog and cat people, you need to look at more than 163 people.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>Contrasting results</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> - Because previous studies used a wide variety of scales with various definitions and measures, sometimes the results were at odds with one another. One study found male dog lovers were aggressive and another study found that those who preferred a pet dog were less hostile than those who preferred a pet cat.</span></li>
</ul><div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why Gosling’s study rocks</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A of all, Gosling’s study did a great job of assessing people’s personality by utilizing the validated Big Five Personality Test. (Awesome!) </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">B of all, people who participated in Gosling’s study </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">didn’t know</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the researchers were examining their attitudes about dogs or cats!! Instead, people came to the website because they wanted to complete a personality questionnaire, which they completed. Then, (sneaky sneaky!) tacked on at the end, were questions asking participants to self-identify with dog, cats, both or neither!</span></span></span><br />
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</span></div></div></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">People did not complete the questionnaire thinking, “I love cats and want to make sure I frame myself as an extrovert to change any stereotype that cat people are not extroverted!!” </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So what did Gosling et al., find? </span></span></b></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Dog people</i> - 2,088 (45.7%)</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Cat people</i> - 527 (11.5%) </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Both</i> - 1,264 (27.7%) </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Neither</i> - 686 (15%) (clearly they like rabbits, or maybe robots)</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now you'll all become "rabbit people"<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gosling found "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>dog people"</b></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> were more </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>extroverted</u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>conscientious</u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>agreeable</u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>cat people"</b></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> were more </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>open</u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>neurotic</u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. (</span></span><a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/sanjay/bigfive.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Definitions of terms</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">)</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Main point!</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A validated questionnaire reveals personality differences between self-proclaiming "dog people" and "cat people"!</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now what!</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are all left wondering: What contributes to our self-identification as dog or cat people?</span></span></span></div><ul><li style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What is it about dogs that attracts “extroverted, conscientious and agreeable” people?</span></span></span></li>
<li style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What is it about cats that attracts “open and neurotic” people?</span></span></span></li>
<li style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why are dog people more “extroverted” but less “open”?</span></span></span></li>
<li style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Could living with a particular species during childhood affect later preference? </span></span></span></li>
<li style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Does an animal attack move us far away from the attacking species? </span></span></span></li>
<li style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Could our personalities be shaped by our experiences with animals? </span></span></span></li>
<li style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Can you change from a “cat person” to a “dog person” (or vice versa) over time? How? Why?</span></span></span></li>
<li style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Why are there no “frog people”? Dogs are cuddly, look at our eyes, walk next to us and snuggle with us, and frogs are more slimy and tend to hop away. Do the behaviors and physical attributes of animals enable us to feel more connected to particular species, and as a result, we attribute particular emotional or spiritual qualities to them? </span></li>
</ul><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But, it’s not all about me and what I think (even though I’m an only child)!</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now you be the scientist! </span></span></b></span></div></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">What do you think are factors that contribute to someone affiliating as a “dog person” or a “cat person”? </span></i></span></span></span><br />
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</span> </i></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Don't just </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Talk"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">talk amongst yourselves</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">! Share with the group! </span></i></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Research discussed:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gosling et al., 2010. Personalities of Self-Identified “Dog People” and “Cat </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">People”. Anthrozoös 23, 213-222.</span></span></div><div style="color: #272727; font: 13.0px Helvetica; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #272727; font: 13.0px Helvetica; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Johnson, Oliver P. Berkeley Personality Lab. The Big Five Inventory. Frequently Asked Questions. Retrieved July 27, 2011 from </span></span><a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~johnlab/bfi.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~johnlab/bfi.htm</span></span></span></a></span></div><div style="color: #272727; font: 13.0px Helvetica; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #272727; font: 13.0px Helvetica; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Srivastava, S. 2011. Measuring the Big Five Personality Factors. Retrieved July 27, 2011 from </span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~sanjay/bigfive.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.uoregon.edu/~sanjay/bigfive.html</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thank you!</span></b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Barbara Gáspár and Max Lullier of the </span></span><a href="http://familydogproject.elte.hu/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Family Dog Project</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> for their French and Hungarian translation! Mike Bagley, the inspiration for this post!</span></span></div></div>Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09889893663440428657noreply@blogger.com8