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Bonding: Classroom Dogs Training
This chapter deals with the classroom dogs, which a few years back was an unknown concept. It presents in three parts the following: the first part...
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A New Approach to Dogs and Dog Training Human-Canine Synergy in Theory and Practice
This book presents a new and innovative concept in dealing with dogs: the human-canine synergy (HCS), characterized by a holistic nature and its...
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Animal-Assisted Therapy with Dogs Basics, Animal Ethics and Practice of Therapeutic Work
Animal-assisted therapy has been the talk of the town for several years and is increasingly being integrated into the psychotherapeutic treatment of...
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Wolves and Dogs between Myth and Science
Various parallels have been drawn between wolves and humans from the perspective of their social organisation. Therefore, studying wolves may well...
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Of Dogs and Bonds
Dogs take on a number of roles in human lives, from free-ranging animals in our streets to companions in our homes and working and assistance animals...
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Relationship/Working Dogs: Detection Training
This chapter deals with the second expression of the relationship concept of the HCS, related to working dogs and more specifically how to train them...
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Nutrition and Metabolism of Dogs and Cats
This book provides new knowledge about the nutrition and metabolism, as well as the roles of nutrients in the immunity, health, and management of...
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The Role That Assistance Dogs Play in Supporting People with Disabilities
Dogs have long been recognised as valuable companions for people with disabilities. In this book, readers will learn about how dogs can improve the...
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Japanese wolves are most closely related to dogs and share DNA with East Eurasian dogs
Although the domestic dog’s origin is still unclear, this lineage is believed to have been domesticated from an extinct population of gray wolves,...
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Purebred dogs show higher levels of genomic damage compared to mixed breed dogs
Inbreeding is a common phenomenon in small, fragmented or isolated populations, typical conditions of many threatened species. In the present paper,...
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Still-face effect in domestic dogs: comparing untrained with trained and animal assisted interventions dogs
The still-face effect has been extensively studied in human infants and comprises the reduction in affiliative behaviors and increased stress that...
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Preparing the Dogs for their Deployment
An entire book would be necessary to fully depict the training of dogs from animal welfare in preparation for their later use as therapy companion...
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Dogs, Primates, and People: A Review
People are assisted by dogs in many activities which may bring them into contact with primates, often leading to negative interactions and outcomes...
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Synchronous citizen science with dogs
Citizen science approaches have grown in popularity over the years, partly due to their ability to reach a wider audience and produce more...
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Meowing dogs: can dogs recognize cats in a cross-modal violation of expectancy task (Canis familiaris)?
Dogs can recognize conspecifics in cross-modal audio–video presentations. In this paper, we aimed at exploring if such capability extends to the...
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Perception of vocoded speech in domestic dogs
Humans have an impressive ability to comprehend signal-degraded speech; however, the extent to which comprehension of degraded speech relies on...
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In “Tone” with dogs: exploring canine musicality
This study investigates the musical perception skills of dogs through playback experiments. Dogs were trained to distinguish between two different...
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Of Mothers and Dogs
In her series, K-9_topology, Maja Smrekar challenges anthropocentrism by linking biology and culture, particularly addressing the interaction between...
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Human social buffer in goats and dogs
The primary goal of this study was to explore the social buffering effect that humans offer to goats and dogs with limited exposure to human...
