Sentences with phrase «social dogs in»

According to clinical studies by researchers at the University of Wisconsin, the CIV H3N2 may be shed for an extended period of time — up to 24 days, which is far longer than what is seen with CIV H3N8.2 As a result, the infection can spread quickly among social dogs in inner cities, doggie daycares, boarding facilities, dog parks, sporting and show events and any location where dogs commingle.

They are very social dogs in the family and get along extremely well with other animals that belong to the shepherd, farmer, or family.

The viral infection can spread quickly among social dogs in dog daycares, boarding facilities, and dog parks.

Not exact matches

With updates in social media and across the web, your opportunity to compete with the «top dogs» is more accessible than ever before if you implement the right strategies.

Competitors have all come forward with special hot - dog deals and social - media mud - slinging efforts in the last week.

Burger King is supporting its initial foray into dogs with its «biggest TV, digital, social media and merchandising blast that it has done in quite a few years,» said Macedo, which is no small statement for a playful brand like Burger King that has aggressively marketed new products such as chicken fries.

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.

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?

Lazy Dog's dedication to authentic, house made cuisine is showcased on every plate, and served with warm caring service in a rustic social setting.

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 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.

At least as far as electing candidates goes, social media remain the dog that HAS N'T barked in the night... for now.

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.

The dog often appears in Kettner's social media posts and makes two appearances as «Chewbacca» in Latimer's social media posts.

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 dogIn 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 dogin dog - human interaction and the social intelligence of dogs.

As for legal restrictions on dogs based on their appearance, Levy said public safety would be better served by reducing risk factors for dog bites, such as supervising children, recognizing canine body language, avoiding an unfamiliar dog in its territory, neutering dogs and raising puppies to be social companions.

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.

Dogs and other pets play an important role in individuals» social lives, and they can act as catalysts for social interaction, previous research has shown.

Darlene Kertes and colleagues tested the commonly held belief that pet dogs provide social support for kids using a randomized controlled study — the gold standard in research.

«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.

For their study, recently published in the journal Social Development, the researchers recruited approximately 100 pet - owning families, who came to their university laboratory with their dogs.

Hypotheses which claim that wolves have limited social skills in this respect in comparison to dogs are therefore incorrect,» Range points out.

«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.

That tells us there was a social bond, perhaps a belief in a dog's soul, or something that persisted in the afterlife.»

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.

Dogs respond better to robots behaving in a social manner than those acting passively, according to Hungarian researchers.

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.

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 psychologIn 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 psychologin 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.

This is why studying dog behaviour can help us understand ourselves, and may in the long term contribute to knowledge about various disturbances in social functioning,» he says.

«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.»

Evan MacLean, director of the Arizona Canine Cognition Center at the University of Arizona, found that dogs and 2 - year - old children show similar patterns in social intelligence, much more so than human children and one of their closest relatives: chimpanzees.

«Dogs, toddlers show similarities in social intelligence.»

It had a unique lab run by someone I found totally fascinating: John Paul Scott, a biologist in the psychology department who had done more work than anyone else on social attachments in dogs.

Dog walking is associated with lower body mass index, fewer doctor visits, more frequent exercise and an increase in social benefits for seniors.

The scans revealed that when praised, 13 of the dogs showed equal or greater levels of brain activity in the region that controls decision - making and signals rewards than when they received food, the scientists will report in an upcoming issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

The obvious winner in the social intelligence game seems like it has to be dogs — they're not called man's best friend for nothing.

Comparative psychology research in the last decade has shown that dogs excel at social cognition, out - testing even some primates.

As a result, understanding changes in population size for social species — several of which, such as African wild dogs and southern resident killer whales, are endangered — requires understanding of what goes on within groups and how individuals fare when they strike out on their own.

Dogs are naturally inclined to work well in social environments, as they are pack animals by nature.

Visual signaling from biologically - inspired robots has been used to investigate the behavior of birds [27]--[31], dogs [32], lizards [33], fish [22], [34]--[42], and rats [43]; salient chemical cues have been implemented on a miniature mobile robot to investigate social behavior of cockroaches [44]; audio feedback has been integrated in a model of a robotic squirrel to influence squirrels» behavior [45]; pulsing air currents created by robotic honeybees have been used to investigate honeybees» dance [46]; and hydrodynamic cues from a swimming robotic fish have been considered in [20] to modulate fish behavior in a water tunnel.

«Many dogs maintain their puppy - like enthusiasm for social interactions throughout their life, whereas wolves grow out of this behavior and engage in more mature, abbreviated greetings as they age,» said Monique Udell, who studies animal behavior at Oregon State University and co-authored the new study.

They decided to examine the social behavior of a group of dogs and a group of wolves and then analyze their DNA in the region that included the WBSCR17 gene.