Bond between dogs and Humans The concept of the human-animal bond was articulated as early as the late 1930s, when Konrad Lorenz and his friend and colleague Nikolaas Tinbergen worked with geese in order to study the instinctive behaviors of animals, leading them to rediscover the principle of imprinting. The same concept was recognized in […]
A study has found that young male puppies playing with female puppies will frequently let the females win, even if the males have a physical benefits. Male puppies often place themselves in probably disadvantageous positions that could make them more vulnerable to attack, and researchers suppose the chance to play may be more important to […]
The toys are produced by the Kong Company of Colorado. The company founder, Joe Markham, invented the Kong in the 1970s, when he noticed his German shepherd Fritz damaging his teeth by chewing rocks. He found that Fritz enjoyed chewing on a hard rubber Volkswagen Bus suspension device, and spent about six years experimenting with […]
During World War II in Australia, there was a dog whose hearing was so acute that it could warn airforce personnel of incoming Japanese planes 20 minutes before they arrived, and before they showed up on radar. “Gunner” could also differentiate the sounds of allied and enemy aircraft. Gunner (dog) was a stray male kelpie who […]
The Alaskan Klee Kai is a spitz type breed of dog, developed in the 1970s to create a companion sized dog resembling the Alaskan Husky (a mixed breed of dog used for sled racing). It is an energetic, intelligent, apartment-sized dog with an appearance that reflects its northern heritage. There are approximately 1500 Alaskan Klee […]
A British bomb detection dog in Afghanistan died from the stress of seeing his handler shot. They had set a new record for bomb detections and the dog was awarded the equivalent to a Victoria Cross. Theo DM (2009–2011), was an English Springer Spaniel who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army […]
A dog will wag its tail to the right if it sees something it likes, and to the left if it sees something it doesn’t like. While hard to see without video analysis, it is one example of how both sides of the brain have different jobs in controlling emotions “Specific tail wags provide information […]
A detection dog or sniffer dog is a dog that is trained to and works at using its senses (almost always the sense of smell) to detect substances such as explosives, illegal drugs, wildlife scat, or blood. Hunting dogs that search for game and search dogs that search for missing humans are generally not considered […]