Pics of my dogs playing in the snow. Look at the pits goofy stupid face!!! 
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Do Not Blink ...
https://www.google.com/amp/boston.c...ncing-radoslaw-czerkawski-animal-cruelty/amp/
It's tragic it wasn't a longer sentence...
It's tragic it wasn't a longer sentence...
I agree.
Benjamin A, Slocombe K. ‘Who’s a good boy?!’ Dogs prefer naturalistic dog-directed speech. Animal Cognition 2018. ‘Who’s a good boy?!’ Dogs prefer naturalistic dog-directed speech
Infant-directed speech (IDS) is a special speech register thought to aid language acquisition and improve affiliation in human infants. Although IDS shares some of its properties with dog-directed speech (DDS), it is unclear whether the production of DDS is functional, or simply an overgeneralisation of IDS within Western cultures.
One recent study found that, while puppies attended more to a script read with DDS compared with adult-directed speech (ADS), adult dogs displayed no preference. In contrast, using naturalistic speech and a more ecologically valid set-up, we found that adult dogs attended to and showed more affiliative behaviour towards a speaker of DDS than of ADS.
To explore whether this preference for DDS was modulated by the dog-specific words typically used in DDS, the acoustic features (prosody) of DDS or a combination of the two, we conducted a second experiment.
Here the stimuli from experiment 1 were produced with reversed prosody, meaning the prosody and content of ADS and DDS were mismatched. The results revealed no significant effect of speech type, or content, suggesting that it is maybe the combination of the acoustic properties and the dog-related content of DDS that modulates the preference shown for naturalistic DDS.
Overall, the results of this study suggest that naturalistic DDS, comprising of both dog-directed prosody and dog-relevant content words, improves dogs’ attention and may strengthen the affiliative bond between humans and their pets.
Mister Loco
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Anyone here got a Doberman???
Guess in your mind how a dog drinks then see if you were right. Hint which way you think the tongue curls to slurp up water;
Also test for dog fanatics, why is this dog an inferior specimen. Hint the dog is very representative of the modern version of the breed and is considered correct.....but it is in fact incorrect and inferior.
Also test for dog fanatics, why is this dog an inferior specimen. Hint the dog is very representative of the modern version of the breed and is considered correct.....but it is in fact incorrect and inferior.
Troy22
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House sitting my buddies Rott, haven't seen Ezra for a year. But he hasn't forgotten me haha
An effort that animal rescuers began more than a decade ago to buy dogs for $5 or $10 apiece from commercial breeders has become a nationwide shadow market that today sees some rescuers, fueled by Internet fundraising, paying breeders $5,000 or more for a single dog.
The result is a river of rescue donations flowing from avowed dog saviors to the breeders, two groups that have long disparaged each other. The rescuers call many breeders heartless operators of inhumane “puppy mills” and work to ban the sale of their dogs in brick-and-mortar pet stores. The breeders call “retail rescuers” hypocritical dilettantes who hide behind nonprofit status while doing business as unregulated, online pet stores.
But for years, they have come together at dog auctions where no cameras are allowed, with rescuers enriching breeders and some breeders saying more puppies are being bred for sale to the rescuers.
I miss them all ...
