Tag: dog behavior
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Big dogs, Small dogs | The Bark
He chose the Doggies, but I chose the name,” the woman explained. Their Doggies was an especially petite Boston Terrier, but his name — Titan — was one more typically bestowed on a larger Doggies. I’d seen this type of contradiction before, and though it’s sometimes just for the sake of being ironic, often it’s […]
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The Lassie Effect: Study Looks at Empathy in Dogs
Doggiess are thought to be very aware of people’s emotions, but if a pup’s owner was really upset, would he actually go out of his way to offer help and comfort? Some not only will, a new study found, they’ll overcome obstacles to do it. In a paper called Timmy’s in the well: Empathy and prosocial […]