Before continuing on with the many benefits of a training class, I would like to share a somewhat humorous account of why
I say every dog and human should attend class!
Who
says dogs and their human counterparts can't dine together?
Not exact matches
When something
says, «Not for
human use,» that means you
and I shouldn't eat from it... but lead has the same impact on our
dogs as it does on our kids.
«Creation itself (
humans, animals, the universe, declare that there is a «Creator»» I asked my
dog about God
and he
said «Arf.»
Oh,
and concerning Jesus
saying that what will happen to marriage, true
humans lifted to heaven (sniff, I wish my
dog could join me) will be as angels.
As Bill Murray
said in Ghostbusters, «
Human Sacrifice,
dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!!»
Humans actually noticed that, if there was a specific trait you liked about your,
say male
dog, you could breed it with a female with the same trait
and the offspring would inherit that trait.
There's no question that anyone who would invade a home
and assassinate two loving
dogs in cold blood would harm a
human being,»
said Tedisco.
«Both effects promote
dog -
human communication
and the development of affectionate relations,»
says Professor Vainio.
The long lifespan of
dogs and their reproductive cycle could make them more relevant to
human fertility than mice, he
says.
While
dogs and most humans use different hemispheres of the brain to process meaning and intonation — instead of the same hemispheres, as was suggested — lead author Attila Andics says the more important finding still stands: Dogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemisphe
dogs and most
humans use different hemispheres of the brain to process meaning
and intonation — instead of the same hemispheres, as was suggested — lead author Attila Andics
says the more important finding still stands:
Dogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemisphe
Dogs» brains process different aspects of
human speech in different hemispheres.
Ostrander
says that by identifying other
dog genes for body size
and for traits such as leg length
and head shape, researchers may learn more about growth
and its disorders — especially cancer — in
humans and their best friends.
Bottom line:
Humans, Laska
says, «are not as hopeless as the classical wisdom will tell us,
and dogs are not the super nose of the universe for everything.»
Even
dogs of similar appearance
and the same breed often have diverse behavioral traits in the same way that
human siblings often have very different personalities,» she
said.
The price for trainer
and dog to travel
and work for a week would range between $ 5,000
and $ 10,000, but using other specialized tests —
say, genetic fingerprinting to help investigators distinguish between animal
and human fecal bacteria — would cost more than $ 100,000, Bell
said.
In contrast, Kaminski
says there was no sign of a «dinner table effect», «which would predict that
dogs try
and look super-cute when they want something from the
humans.»
While the brain hemispheres
dogs use to process meaning and intonation don't match what's seen in most humans, as was originally suggested, lead author Attila Andics says the more important finding still stands: Dogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemisphe
dogs use to process meaning
and intonation don't match what's seen in most
humans, as was originally suggested, lead author Attila Andics
says the more important finding still stands:
Dogs» brains process different aspects of human speech in different hemisphe
Dogs» brains process different aspects of
human speech in different hemispheres.
«Thanks to genomic comparison, we are understanding finally that
dogs and humans are sick in the same way
and can be treated the same way,» Tiret
says.
And, scientists
say,
humans who share 90 percent of the amino acids found in small -
dog IGF1 tend to be the more diminutive specimens of our species.
«
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.»
Jay Baker, owner of Fat
Dog Shellfish Co.,
said Grizzle's latest research adds to a growing body of work that demonstrates the value of farmed oysters in improving coastal water quality
and mitigating
human impacts to sensitive estuarine waters.
Co-author Professor Daniel Mills of the School of Life Sciences at the University of Lincoln,
said: «
Humans are known to be very visual in both intra and inter-specific interactions, and because the vision of dogs is much poorer than humans, we often tend to think of them using their other senses to make sense of the
Humans are known to be very visual in both intra
and inter-specific interactions,
and because the vision of
dogs is much poorer than
humans, we often tend to think of them using their other senses to make sense of the
humans, we often tend to think of them using their other senses to make sense of the world.
«We think of words as being unique to
humans but, in fact,
dogs can process the meaning
and tone of words —
and they do it in a very similar way to
humans,»
says lead researcher Atilla Andics, a neuroscientist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
«Most of the
dog owners
and handlers involved in the experiment were women, so most of the familiar
human scent donors were their husbands,» Berns
says.
They
say this could help shed light on why some
dogs are retired early for behavioural reasons
and the
human and dog factors which contribute to this unique partnership's success.
«I had predicted that both domestic
dogs and humans would show adaptations to enhanced non-verbal communication, but I had not thought of the oxytocin link,» she
says.
Mark Blumberg, a psychology professor at the UI
and senior author of the study,
says this latest discovery is further evidence that sleep twitches — whether in
dogs, cats or
humans — are connected to brain development, not dreams.
«Due to the high similarity of the receptor in
humans and dogs, this type of therapy should work well in
dogs too,» the scientists
say.
«Our working hypothesis is that
dogs and humans probably evolved some of these skills as a result of similar evolutionary processes, so probably some things that happened in
human evolution were very similar to processes that happened in
dog domestication,» MacLean
said.
We already know
dogs can see
and hear the signs of
human emotions,
says Biagio D'Aniello at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
«Our study demonstrates that
dogs can distinguish angry
and happy expressions in
humans, they can tell that these two expressions have different meanings,
and they can do this not only for people they know well, but even for faces they have never seen before,»
says Ludwig Huber, senior author
and head of the group at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna's Messerli Research Institute.
Kaminski
says there was no sign of a «dinner table effect», which «would predict that
dogs try
and look super-cute when they want something from the
humans».
«Our results showed that
dog ownership
and walking were related to increases in physical health among older adults,»
said Johnson, who also serves as director of the Research Center for
Human - Animal Interaction at MU.
It is often
said that
dogs can «smell fear,» but the majority of research into communication between
dogs and humans has focused on gestures, words,
and facial expressions.
Bustamante
says the research — reported online today in PLoS Biology — could be important to
human health, because
dogs and humans are so closely tied.
And while dogs may appear lazy and pampered, some can survive for multiple generations in areas far removed from humans — an indication, Hare says, that they have retained an ability to adapt to the wi
And while
dogs may appear lazy
and pampered, some can survive for multiple generations in areas far removed from humans — an indication, Hare says, that they have retained an ability to adapt to the wi
and pampered, some can survive for multiple generations in areas far removed from
humans — an indication, Hare
says, that they have retained an ability to adapt to the wild.
Colorado State University biologists
say this sporadic ebb
and flow of prairie
dog plague is an ideal model for the study of rare infectious zoonotic disease — disease that can jump from wildlife to
humans — like MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome)
and Ebola.
«We want to take it all the way to cats
and dogs,
and potentially even
humans,»
says the head of Calysta, Alan Shaw.
The authors
say that the particular combination of species currently infected by
dog - related rabies probably arose as a combined effect of historical spread by
humans and host jumping.
Dr Kaminski
said: «Domestic
dogs have a unique history — they have lived alongside
humans for 30,000 years
and during that time selection pressures seem to have acted on
dogs» ability to communicate with us.
Researchers
say that wolves have a better causal understanding than
dogs and that they follow
human - given communicative cues equally well.
Physiological similarities between
dogs and humans,
and conserved genetics between some
dog and human cancers, can allow pet
dogs to serve as useful models for studying new cancer drugs, he
said.
«We will continue to study these genes
and their potential involvement in IgA deficiency in
dogs and we anticipate that it will be of importance also for the
human equivalent»,
says Mia Olsson.
I'm not
saying we must test this
humans but testing faster ECM turnover rates in older adult mice, cat's,
dogs, pigs, naked mole rats, apes
and other close - related mammals to
human to see how bad it gets,
and if it's possible to revert to pre-adolescence or, at the latest, very - early adulthood levels.
«We've developed a platform for computer - mediated communication between
humans and dogs that opens the door to new avenues for interpreting dogs» behavioral signals and sending them clear and unambiguous cues in return,» says Dr. David Roberts, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-lead author of «Towards Cyber-Enhanced Working Dogs for Search and Rescue,» a paper about the w
dogs that opens the door to new avenues for interpreting
dogs» behavioral signals and sending them clear and unambiguous cues in return,» says Dr. David Roberts, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-lead author of «Towards Cyber-Enhanced Working Dogs for Search and Rescue,» a paper about the w
dogs» behavioral signals
and sending them clear
and unambiguous cues in return,»
says Dr. David Roberts, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State
and co-lead author of «Towards Cyber-Enhanced Working
Dogs for Search and Rescue,» a paper about the w
Dogs for Search
and Rescue,» a paper about the work.
«The HAR sequences in chimps are pretty much the same as those in mice, rats,
dogs,
and even chickens;
humans are the ones who are different,»
said Pollard.
Eventually, however,
human population growth
and trade networks meant people reconnected,
and that,
say scholars, led to the genetic admixture in the
dog population.
Lai
and 28 colleagues reported their results last week in the Journal of Molecular Cell Biology,
saying they intend to create
dogs with other DNA mutations, including ones that mimic
human diseases such as Parkinson's
and muscular dystrophy.
«The findings open up a whole new area of research into inflammatory diseases in
dogs and humans,»
says Kerstin Lindblad Toh, director of the Science for Life Laboratory in Uppsala
and a scientific director at the Broad Institute.