relation between humans and dogs. The scholarly article, “Canis sensitivus: Affiliation and dog’s sensitive to other’s behavior as the basis for synchronization with humans?” by Charlotte Duranton and Florence Gaunet, taught me that dogs are able to synchronized their feelings with of their owners. The authors’ state,
“Finally, recent studies have shown that dogs were sensitive to their owners’ emotional cues. When the owner was stressed, the behaviors of dogs were affected in a cognitive task, suggesting an emotional contagion […] also found that when con- fronted with a human crying, dogs interacted more with him/her than if the person was just talking or humming” (Duranton and Ganuet, 2015, p. 520).
It is evident that dogs become like
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I misjudge his present behavior by the brief time we shared together. Thus, the article, “Democratizing Biology Reinventing biology from a feminist, ecological, and Third World perspective” by Vanadana Shiva, its arguments about men believing to be superior than women, pushed me to see my assumptions that I have made about Scruffy. According to the text, European men believe to be godlike and thought they could dominate women, colored people, and other species. European men claimed that they were superior for their biological determinism and used that statement to justified their actions of oppression and dominance. The article states, “The world was thus split into ‘thinking humans’ and ‘vegetating other species.’ The relationship of domination of humans over other species and white men over other humans is based on and justified through the myth of the disembodied mind” (Shivae, 2001, p.450). I did believe for a while that I could dominate Scruffy because I am human and as his owner I gave him his name and took care of him. When people came to visit me, he would bark and I thought that my presence and by telling him to stop he would obey, but he did not. This lesson taught me that Scruffy does not response to orders but to
I’ve always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don’t fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth and somehow we humans think we’re smarter. I chose this topic about the canine because, some of these canines risk their life’s to protect dog’s best friend.
A couple of emotional problems have been tested by researchers in 2011. This study was known as the Applied Animal Behaviour Science. This was the first quantitative data made about puppy mill dogs. The research was done on more than 1,100 dogs who had averagely had a new home for about two years. The research showed “The dogs were found to have s...
In the story, “The Dog That Bit People”, Mother always blamed others for the things that Muggs did. On page 4, paragraph 7, muggs bit Lieutenant-Governor Malloy. Mother blamed the governor by claiming that the sound of people screaming excited Muggs, and that made him bite people. Also on page 3, paragraph 6, the narrator stated “it was a foolhardy thing to do and the last time I saw my mother, about six months ago”. It can be inferred that Mother either left or that she kicked the narrator out of the house because she placed the blame on the narrator for holding Muggs in the air.
The author specifically utilizes the outcomes of a research by Hungarian scientists regarding the topic, affirming that, indeed, canines’ brains are ordinarily sensitive to acoustic emotional cues, in a similar manner to humans. The author uses an appropriate image of the actual dogs used in the research undergoing an MRI, which helps the readers connect and relate with the topic. The author extensively uses information derived from expert sources, including journals and research magazines. In addition, the article is formatted in a manner that is logical and easy to follow: the introduction, analysis, and summary parts distinct the type of information presented. This article is critical for research because of its extensive
Dieter Freya, Peter Fischer “Man's Best Friend: How the Presence of a Dog Reduces Mental
When you look at someone’s pet you may not think it can teach you anything or do anything for you besides being there for you. However, a study in Austria, conducted by Pauleen Bennett and Jordan Schaan, discovered that pets became “instructors” for their owners in living a better life. “People felt they could derive unconditional love and forgiveness from their dogs, whereas human beings seemed more likely to disappoint one another” (Yuhas, 1). This statement reveals how negatively humans view each other. If a person rather be with an
Word count includes Annotated Bibliography. Throughout the world, there are many different countries that contain diverse cultures, religions, and lifestyles. There are however certain aspects within these countries and cultures that act as a common ground between one another. One dominant aspect is the existence of dogs within these cultures.
Almost all the families that own dogs treat them like a part of the family. In the story How the Dog Became Part of the Family, it stated "According to a 2015 survey by the Harris Poll, ninety six percent of owners consider their dogs to be a part of the family." Since the dogs get special treatment from their owners they will do things for them, like encroachment foxes, clean out rats from somewhere, hunt ducks, and also even pull sleds on snowy days. Dogs can be malign gard dogs for people that treat them like kinfolks. The dogs and humans can have a very special bond. "When a dog and a human gaze in each others eye a chemical is released that causes the dog and human to feel adjacent." For example, in the story How the Dog Became Part of the Family, it states that, "The Harris Poll found that 38 percent of U.S. dog owners cook special meals for their dogs," Another thing is walking a dog a lot can improve people's health and can cause less accentuation. Less accentuation causes a better day and it is helpful to kids with autism. When dos get walked it makes you and the dog feel
Bradshaw, John. Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better
Ever since animals have been domesticated, they have been very instrumental in providing humans with a plethora of benefits in multiple areas such as agriculture, medicine, and industry (Transgenic Animals). Today, animals and their products are used for almost everything from food to clothing to products we use on an everyday basis. Some argue that animals should not be used as much as they are being utilized; however the use of domesticated animals propelled humans from a nomadic species to a more civilized people. The domestication of animals was a keynote of the beginning of agriculture as a whole, which lead to industrialization and progression as human beings. Domesticated animals play a foremost role in our society today as well as in the future.
Research has been done in the area of human-animal companionship and security, and stress management. Due to the relative newness of this field and the difficulties in studying it, most research has been concentrated on the elderly, specifically, institutionalized elderly. Pets have been introduced into these settings in order to minimize the negative consequences of institutionalization. Most research has been conducted on the extreme ends of the continuum, either very brief visitation or therapy of resident pets studies (Wrinkler 216).
In the field of therapy, there are numerous of therapy available out there for different type of individuals and situations as well. There is one type of therapy that usually contains people and animal, it is animal-assisted therapy is a therapeutic approach that brings animals and individuals with physical and/or emotional needs together to perform the therapy. Animal-assisted therapy tend to be focused on individuals either children or elderly for them to be able to connect with the animal thus feeling comfortable talking with the therapist. Pet therapy works for all ages, whether sick or not (Lanchnit, 2011). Although, this paper, most of the focus is on animal-assisted therapy towards children using dogs.
“Do animals have emotions?” When animal lovers and pet owners are asked this question, the answer is a quick and definite, “Yes!” For others, the answer isn 't so simple. Many of the researchers that had reservations, spent their time wondering what dogs (and other animals) were capable of feeling, or if they were capable of feeling anything at all. Since these researchers were unable to put feelings under a microscope, their research lead no where, and they remained skeptics. To the contrary,Marc Bekoff, author of several books including The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy and Why They Matter, begins his research three decades ago with the question, “What does it feel like to be a
Restate Thesis Statement: Dogs don’t only give owners happiness; they also affect their owners positively.
These voluntary actions are then used to express empathy because they are able to put themselves in the position of the other dog, thus they are willing to do “voluntary acts”. For instance, in “Task Differences and Prosociality; Investigating Pet Dogs’ Prosocial Preferences in a Token Choice Paradigm,” dogs in pair of twos were situated in a lab and one dog had the choice to press a button or pull a lever that would present their partner food. If the dog knew its partner, then the dog was more likely to be prosocial and generous and allow the other dog to eat. (Dale et al.). Thus showing empathy through being prosocial by actively aiding another dog in which this canine knew well. Consequently, both dogs would benefit as the first one feels validation because of its good deed, while the other is satisfied due to the fact that its basic needs are being met. However, as later seen in Dale et al.’s study, as much as a dog can be generous, it can also be apathetic and even cruel if it does not know the dog well enough. Later on in the study, the dogs were instead paired with a partner they did not know, and in those circumstances, the dogs were ten times more likely to not enable their partners to eat. That might be due to not pressing a mere switch or pulling a lever (Dale et al.). This shows that dogs can be apathetic and even antisocial by ignoring or not even noticing the signs being demonstrated by their partners. This further shows how dogs can convey empathy, because it illustrates these mammals’ ability to choose whether or not to internalize the other mammal’s situation and act upon it. Which shows that dogs possess a higher level of understanding in the ways in which these mammals can express and give empathy. In closing, while dogs can express empathy