Sentences with phrase «of social dogs»

The underlying rationale for the use of social dogs is that dogs learn social skills from other dogs.

What We Do At Coventry Day Camp, we are proud of the social dogs that we have helped to nurture over the years.

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Facebook has always had a somewhat fraught relationship with the news: Many users seem to think of the social network as just a place where they can see a friend's baby or dog photos, but research shows a growing number of people also get their news there.

Pet transport is a relatively tiny segment of United Airlines» business, but it was thrust into the spotlight this month as several dog incidents, including the death of a puppy on board, sparked an outcry on social media and scrutiny from lawmakers and government officials.

If all of this — the euphoric personal trainer, the celebrity dog on social media, the pints filled with air — has the ring of a bubble to you, you're not alone.

Rover uses a multitiered review and onboarding process that includes references, optional background checks and verification of social media accounts; online training and exams; and a manual review that determines whether every applicant has a good plan and environment for dog - sitting, as well as whether they have the personality and experience to maintain an appropriate level of customer service.

Among the many events currently taking place as part of Social Media Week, Tumblr founder David Karp sat down Wednesday with John Bell, Global Manager of Social@Ogilvy, to chat about all things Karp — including his dog Clark, his affinity for car commercials, and best of all, his favorite Tumblr.

They'll go to the local pub once they're off, go to dog parks together and alert one another of upcoming social events.

People on social media have been reacting with outrage to the shooting of the dog.

Two problems dogged the experiment however: Traffic patterns were unpredictable — an early manifestation of the News Feed algorithm problem — and it spooked users by showing people in their social graph what they had been reading.

Social media is the big dog of marketing in recent years.

How could one ever live down the social humiliation of being adjudicated less fit as a dog «parent» compared to the winning spouse?

This «Ayn Rand» pseudo-Christianity based on social Darwinism and dog - eat - dog fascism is a whole new invention growing out of John Birch Society and Phyllis Schlafly schools of racist mythology.

Yet, as Giddens remarks, they have intensified, in the social sciences, the subject / object dualisms which have dogged most areas of social analysis (CPST 96 - 130).

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

If we can not assume right and wrong was the result of social evolution in your dog how can we assume it was social evolution in humans?

I have a hard enough time getting out of bed at 5:15 am and then am greeted by a dog extremely needy for attention, kids to get ready for school, email to respond to, social media to monitor and loads of other things — like dishes and laundry!

They seemed very close based on their social media activity and even shared custody of dogs — that's serious commitment!

Just hours after posting a picture on social media of himself and his dogs next to a private jet, Sanchez added a photo of him running and wrote: «Back to training.»

Players and supporters of Nottingham Forest have started a social media campaign to get defender Eric Lichaj a dog after he revealed he had come up one goal short of earning a pet in the FA Cup victory over Arsenal.

We don't have any kids (neither of us want kids), only dogs and we're both active at the gym and live very social lives together.

Her company has a sense of humor mixed with a love for dogs which you will notice throughout all of her social media channels.

Rather than penalising certain breed types, which compromises the welfare of the animal, Dogs Trust wants to see a clear legislative focus on «deed not breed» and a new dialogue on the social problem of «dangerous owners»..

A constructive dialogue on the social problem of dangerous and status dogs..

We would also like to see stronger measures to protect the welfare of Greyhounds, an effective dialogue on the growing social problem of dangerous and status dogs, and a total ban on the battery - farming and selling of puppies in pet shops.

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We are calling on all politicians to think carefully about the wider social impact of dog welfare and how important dogs are to us as individuals and in the wider community.

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Chimpanzees are our closest relatives (with bonobos), while centuries of selective breeding have turned dogs into a species uniquely suited to comprehend our own social cues.

In this study, the group partnered with József Topál, a Hungarian pioneer of canine research who specialises in dog - human interaction and the social intelligence of dogs.

It was initially embraced by senior Pentagon officials, including former defense secretary Robert Gates, but has been dogged by controversy after the injury and death of several social scientists.

According to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASDs improve their social skills and interactions with other people.

Although much media attention has focused on how dogs can improve the social skills of children with autism, a University of Missouri researcher recently found that children with autism have stronger social skills when any kind of pet lived in the home.

Pet dogs provide valuable social support for kids when they're stressed, according to a study by researchers from the University of Florida, who were among the first to document stress - buffering effects of pets for children.

«When I compared the social skills of children with autism who lived with dogs to those who did not, the children with dogs appeared to have greater social skills,» said Gretchen Carlisle, research fellow at the Research Center for Human - Animal Interaction (ReCHAI) in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine.

Dogs however cooperate more easily with humans because they more readily accept people as social partners and more easily lose their fear of humans.

«Dog - human cooperation is based on social skills of wolves, scientists show.»

To test their hypothesis, Range and Virányi examined the social attentiveness and tolerance of wolves and dogs within their packs and toward humans.

«Rodents, dogs and other mammals commonly sniff themselves, and they sniff one another in social interactions, and it seems that in the course of evolution, humans have retained this practice — only on a subliminal level.»

«Dogs and humans share a similar social environment,» says Attila Andics, a neuroscientist in a research group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and the lead author of the new study.

«It shows that dogs and humans have similar brain mechanisms for processing the social meaning of sound,» Andics says, noting that other research has shown that dogs «respond to the way we say something rather than to what we say.»

New fMRI images of unsedated dogs represent a first peak into what dogs are thinking and open a door into canine cognition and social cognition in other species

«All animals can be social with people to some extent, but dogs are uniquely good at being with us,» says University of Alberta archaeologist Robert Losey, who studies the human - dog relationship in prehistory.

They conclude the impact «for the guide dog owners of these dogs are likely to be long - term and complex affecting not only their mobility and physical health, but also their social and emotional well - being.»

The animals are so well adapted to living with human beings that in many cases the owner replaces conspecifics and assumes the role of the dog's main social partner.

Nagy's team found that the patterns correlated with the behaviour of a social network, and certain dogs emerged as pack leaders that repeatedly influenced the paths taken by others.

In future, such data may be key to figuring out whether groups of dogs form complex social hierarchies like wild wolves — a hotly debated question in animal psychology.

«There's been a lot of research showing that you don't really find those same social skills in chimpanzees, but you do find them in dogs, so that suggested something superficially similar between dogs and kids,» MacLean said.

«What we found is that there's this pattern, where dogs who are good at one of these social things tend to be good at lots of the related social things, and that's the same thing you find in kids, but you don't find it in chimpanzees,» he said.

So we would never make the argument that dogs in general are a better model for the human mind — it's really just this special set of social skills.»