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Doctors believe in the health benefits of pet ownership
The Human-Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI) Foundation has released the findings of a survey revealing the views of the family physician (also known as the GP) on the benefits of pets to health....
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Pet therapy and how it helps cancer patients
Therapy dogs may improve the emotional well-being of some cancer patients, according to results of a clinical study, the first to document the benefits of animal-assisted therapy in adult cancer...
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Happy faces/sad faces
This is the experimental set-up used to test whether dogs can discriminate emotional expressions of human faces. Photo by Anjuli Barber, Messerli Research Institute Dogs can tell the difference between...
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In Memory of Denali (a fitting 1000th post)
****Warning**** For anyone who has loved and lost a dog, this video will bring you to tears. It certainly did for me. But I couldn’t think of a more fitting 1000th post for this blog – a tribute to...
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The companionship of dogs helps kids undergoing cancer treatment
Although survival rates for children diagnosed with cancer have increased dramatically over the past 40 years, hard evidence of proven psychosocial benefits to improve quality of life among patients...
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Canine companions and the lure of inattentively pooping in public
The title of this post is unashamedly taken from an article in the journal Environmental Sociology. Photo by Matthias Gross This article is a study, primarily focused on European nations, and the...
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Kids with dogs have less anxiety
A research team at Bassett Medical Center in New York has found that kids with a dog at home experience far less clinical anxiety than do children who are dog-less. This small study adds to the growing...
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When Dogs Heal
When Dogs Heal is a photographic exhibition supported by the charity Fred Says, which helps people diagnosed with HIV. The photographs tell the stories of the dogs who helped their HIV-positive owners...
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Study shows dogs can recognise human emotions
Dogs can recognise emotions in humans by combining information from different senses – an ability that has never previously been observed outside of humans, a new study reveals. For the first time,...
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Dogs – part of the coping for kids of military families
Janelle Casson says it never gets any easier when her husband deploys as a U.S. Army combat engineer. But after four tours of duty in the last 12 years—assignments ranging from a year to 15 months...
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Homeless youth with pets
Homeless youth can benefit from owning pets but not without a few challenges, according to a new study from the University of Guelph. Led by researchers from the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), the...
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Pet friendly senior living
TigerPlace is a retirement community that helps residents care for their pets as both age. Located in Colombia, Missouri, this retirement community offers one-floor living to make it easy for owners...
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Words we say to our dogs and other things
Yet more research on the human-animal bond. This time the research was based at Barnard College’s Dog Cognition Lab. Researchers Alexandra Horowitz and Julie Hecht asked members of the public to send...
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Does your dog understand you?
Research by a Brigham Young University psychology professor shows how dogs perceive and use human emotional cues and gestures. Professor Ross Flom conducted two experiments where he looked at the...
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Awareness of the human-animal bond and how it impacts pet care
The Human Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI) Foundation partnered with Cohen Research Group to conduct an online survey of 2,000 pet owners, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2%. This...
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Praise or food?
Given the choice, many dogs prefer praise from their owners over food, suggests a new study published in the journal Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. The study is one of the first to...
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Workplace fostering
Most rescue and adoption groups are familiar with fostering programs – these are programs when a dog is taken to a home on a temporary basis so it can learn to adapt to a domestic living situation....
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Mutual Rescue™
Mutual Rescue™ is a trademarked initiative of the Humane Society Silicon Valley. Aimed at changing the way people think of animal welfare and adoption, each year the Society asks for submissions from...
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Who Rescued Who?
I hear about it a lot from my clients and I’ve experienced it myself. Your dog came into your life at a time when you really needed them. Unconditional love & companionship. So my thought for the...
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Sharing your bed with your pet (or other humans)
About half of all pet owners share their beds or bedrooms with their pets at night. Although this has been the case through the ages, remarkably few studies have been done about the benefits and...
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