Social Response

This has led to the belief that dogs can provide company, affection and support to people who are going through a difficult time or who feel lonely. Dogs have aided humans in tasks such as hunting, livestock herding, and guarding. However, as society moved from small rural communities to increasingly large metropolitan areas, the dog’s role changed. Throughout the years a more specific type of

Dogs have been trained for years. They are very ingenious animals that have a greater influence on lives than some may think. One doesn’t merely train him to be semi-human, but possibly of becoming partly a dog. One wants to rediscover the commonality of animal and man-to see an animal eat and sleep that hasn’t forgotten how to enjoy doing such things-and the directness of its loyalty. (Hoagland,

The nature of the project prevented me from including cute pictures of dogs or videos of dogs being sweet. Since I could not include other media to make a empathetic connection I had to get creative. Ms. Virginia Morell used a personal narrative in her article for national geographic "How Orcas Work Together to Whip Up a Meal" (Morell). This personal narrative successfully created a empathetic connection between the Orcas and the audience. I decided to try the same technique, except from the dog's perspective. This created a personal connection as any human could have those same thoughts the dog had when observing other people. If I saw someone else act non-cooperatively I would not want to be friends with them, that’s just not nice. The audience might realize the answer to the "why does it matter" question. Dogs think like we do, and this was a very effective way of communicating

“Isolated, his family deteriorating—“I couldn’t show affection, couldn’t hug my kids”—Soliz turned to the Palo Alto V.A. Medical Center” (Colin n.p.) “Soliz says his life is slowly coming back to him and he now can go to the movies without panicking—and hug and kiss his two kids” (Colin n.p.). Moore who explained in her dissertation that, “some of the veterans spoke of ways their Psychiatric Service Dog has bettered their relationships with other people, in particular through increasing interpersonal interactions, Similar to Ensayra and Love's (2008) finding of the dog serving as a "social lubricant”

A poorly socialized dog is unlikely to cope well with changes in its environment or situation, making it difficult to control for its owner, veterinarian, groomer, pet sitter, and any visitors to the dog’s home. If a dog isn’t properly socialized, it can develop permanently ingrained fear responses and generalized anxiety. Ultimately, this kind of behavior problem can make it unsuitable as a pet – for its owner or anyone else. Nearly half of all dogs in animal shelters have at least one behavior issue –aggression and destructiveness being the most common. Both of these behaviors can be caused by the anxiety and fear that originates from improper or incomplete socialization. BSL causes a positive feedback loop resulting from the banning of “vicious” breeds from certain areas vital for socialization skills which causes the dogs to develop fearful/aggressive behavior, further strengthening the stereotype of such breeds being inherently aggressive, when in reality they haven’t been properly socialized due to the public ostracizing their breed.

There has been a long history with animals and their natural bonds with humans for many decades now. Dogs have helped people with a multitude of illnesses for some time now, however Americans were not the first to discover this natural trait in animals. The Germans during World War 1 were the first to discover this. In the book, History of Guide Dog Use by Veterans it states that the German army in particular “relied heavily on the use of German shepherds as ambulance and messenger dogs. The Germans reportedly used more than 25,000 dogs during World War I. ' these dogs were ideally suited for this type of work, with ell-known traits such as trainability, loyalty, intelligence, strength, and endurance” (Ostermeier 587). In today 's society, we have numerous people who are unaware of the services that animals can provide for humans. Specifically humans with mental or physical disabilities. In this paper I will present various types of service animals as well as the many services they provide.

“A Healthy Dose of Puppy Love” by Kathryn Satterfield describes a new study that shows that dogs can improve an individual’s health by lowering anxiety levels and by improving cardiac function. Specially trained therapy dogs visited a hospital in November in Dallas, Texas to help conduct a study that animals can improve an individual’s health, to do this people split the seventy six patients into a total of three groups: visitors with dogs, visitors, and an “at rest group.” For accurate results researches preformed anxiety tests on the patients before, during, and after the visit, and the results concluded that patients who received visits from people had encountered a ten percent drop in anxiety, while patients who received visits from dogs

Dogs reacted the same way an infant or a chimpanzee would react without their mother and for a dog was its owner. By doing the experiment on dogs and their owners, experimenters were able to conclude that dogs were emotionally attached to their owners. Therefore, we can conclude since the results are of those like infants, babies form an emotional bond with their caretaker which eventually turns into an attachment bond with their loved one. Babies tend to cry while dogs scratch the door and whine wanting their loved one or owner. Identifying dog behavior helps us identify our own abilities and experiences that affect our behavior. We can utilize the test done upon the dogs to advance the transition of an emotional bond to an attachment bond as the infant grows. The test however concluded that it was separation anxiety that caused the whining and the scratching on the door. What about the baby? The information and results that came from the experiment can help us advance upon the baby and their feelings towards the mother. Dogs tend to act like people but do they think and act like a human? They have the characteristics of acting like a human because their owners have instilled their values into their upbringing. Just like an infant, the early stages are the most important to lay the foundation that will pave the way for the rest of their lives. As for a dog, the way we treat and teach them, they will act, there is no breed that is born aggressive, the dog is dependant on the upbringing of the owner. Infants still have the capability of saying no and not tend to respect their parents as would a

The two main things being studied in this article are dogs and their owners. The researchers that conducted this study, Michael M. Roy and Nicholas J.S. Christenfeld, tried to see if dogs and their owners look alike and if they do look alike, what makes them look alike. Does an owner pick a pet based on what he/she looks like? Would more owners resemble purebreds or non-purebreds? Michael M. Roy and Nicholas J.S. Christenfeld believed going into the experiment that “A non-purebred puppy’s final appearance is unpredictable, and so the resemblance between owner and dog should be confined to the much more predictable purebreds.” (361). The experiment

Dogs are domesticated animals and many believe they were the very first to be properly domesticated, as well as the only domesticated species before the cultivation of crops (Craig, 1981). Domestication is a genetic process where dog’s phenotypes and genetics change in response to their interaction with humans (Johnson & Wright, 2014). In recent years, one question that has been asked a great deal is how our interaction affects the behaviour of animals. Is our interaction having a negative impact on these animals? Generally domesticated animals are very well looked after, however when mistreated their

The book Dogs Don't Bite When A Growl Will Do: What Your Dog Can Teach Your About Living A Happy Life can reevaluate what the human concept of life is all about on an everyday basis. How we approach each other in our everyday life as human beings is being compared to how dogs react to different situations. The interactions that we have with others don’t compare to a dogs reactions at all when meeting a new person. A dog could care less about what somebody looks like or if they seem harmful in anyway, the only thing their worried about is the person right by their side at the time. The way we approach one another and how we communicate when we first meet is completely different than how a dog would approach someone new. As humans we can tend

It is generally accepted that dogs not only desire, but require interaction with fellows of their species. Isolation within the company of only humans can dissolve a dog's emotional makeup, not to say that it will directly result in a "problem dog", but it will result in a dog that, when introduced to canine sociality, could become hazardous. It is vital that social training be available to reduce the risk of confrontation, both

In a study by Monique Udell at Oregon State University in Corvallis; twenty dogs and twenty wolves were given a box with a treat inside and a lid. The canines each entered a room where a human and the box containing a treat waited. The canines were given a limited amount of time in order to open the box containing the treat. This process was repeated once with no human in the room and once with the human actively engaging with the canine. Previously, in 2003 there was a surge in studying the difference between dogs and wolves. One of these studies was a similar experiment with the same results. The scientists wanted to know why these results had been gotten so they asked a question, “Which canine is better at problem solving, wolves or dogs?”

Picture this--all you want to do is revert to your bed since you are laggard from a protracted day on the job. Sluggishly, you step into your comfortable home to find your dog patiently waiting, wagging its tail in excitement. Half awake, you fail to say hello-- your dog now a shadow following your every movement, every breath. Ever wonder why they do this? In a way, dogs are comparable to people, as they seem to acknowledge human emotions. Has a dog ever come up to you when you were flustered and curl up next to you? When you are happy, does your dog ever seem to jump up and down with you? Dogs have the ability to connect with people, through the most microscopic emotions.

The current study by manipulating the level of humans’ sociability, demonstrates that dogs are more likely to yawn in the presence of a person that has acted anti-socially than someone who has act pro-socially towards them. The results provide support to the stress hypothesis over the empathy hypothesis, which suggests that contagious yawning observed in dogs towards humans is likely to be due to elevated stress rather than empathy.