Tag Archives: behaviour

Dog psychology

Dogs feel jealous of rival pets

Researchers in the US studied 36 dogs and found that most were indifferent when their owners ignored them and read aloud from a children’s pop-up book. But when the owners showered their attention on a stuffed dog – or even played with a bucket with a face painted on the side – the dogs’ behaviour changed dramatically…

Dogs and humans

Beyond simply being hairy, smelly love machines, a growing body of research shows that dogs may be even more in tune with us than we previously thought…

Dogs: an uncomplicated relationship.

Dogs and life

The Guardian’s dog page

History lesson

New research sheds light on the evolution of dogs

The first dogs descended from wolves about 14,000 years ago but according to Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods humans didn’t domesticate dogs — dogs sought out humans and domesticated us…

Ancient dogs

The evidence for dogs being part of human family life goes back to at least the Ancient Egyptians. A description is given in a forthcoming British Museum publican BMSAES, by W. Vivian Davis, of the Tomb of Sataimau. Notable among the pharaonic monuments at Hagr Edfu is a group of three tombs, located at the foot of the main hill which were uncovered by the Egyptian Antiquities Service in 1941. One of the tombs belongs to a high official named Sataimau and is dated by inscription to the reign of Amenhotep I. In the tomb-chapel of Sataimau, in the First chamber, on the North and south walls is the following:
“The focal scene is that on the north wall showing the seated figures of tomb-owner and wife surrounded by their offspring (and a pet dog), before a pile of offerings. “

Read my mind

Reading dog’s thoughts

A new study at Emory University is trying to figure out what dogs think. The study uses functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to scan the dogs’ brains while they’re shown different stimuli…

Dating dogs

Online dating sites set up for dogs

Online ‘dating’ websites now exist for dogs. ..