Dogs are social animals and love being around people. They crave attention and affection, but what happens when a dog begs strangers to stop…
Dogs are social animals and love being around people. They crave attention and affection, but what happens when a dog begs strangers to stop petting him on the street? This heartwarming story of a dog’s plea to a stranger not to leave him behind is sure to tug at your heartstrings.
A video went viral on social media recently that showed a dog begging a stranger not to leave him there. The dog in the video was being petted by a stranger on the street, but when the stranger attempted to leave, the dog put his paws up and pleaded with him not to go.
The dog was so persistent that the stranger eventually gave in and continued to pet him.
This heartwarming video shows just how much dogs love attention and affection. They are social creatures and crave human interaction. This dog’s reaction to being left behind is a testament to how much they rely on us for their emotional needs.
As dog owners, it’s important to understand our pets’ social needs and to provide them with ample opportunities to interact with people and other animals. While it may be tempting to ignore a dog begging for attention on the street, we must remember that dogs are highly social animals and thrive on human interaction.
The video of the dog begging the stranger not to leave him behind is a touching reminder of the deep emotional connection between dogs and humans. It’s up to us to ensure that our furry friends get the love and attention they need to live happy and healthy lives. So next time you see a dog begging for attention, take a moment to stop and give them a little love. You never know, it might just make their day.
Dogs actually do respond better when their owners use cute ‘baby talk’, study finds
Dogs’ brains are sensitive to the familiar high-pitched “cute” voice tone that adult humans, especially women, use to talk to babies, according to a new study.
The research, published recently in the journal Communications Biology, found “exciting similarities” between infant and dog brains during the processing of speech with such a high-pitched tone feature.
Humans tend to speak with a specific speech style characterised by exaggerated prosody, or patterns of stress and intonation in a language, when communicating with individuals having limited language competence.
Such speech has previously been found to be very important for the healthy cognitive, social and language development of children, who are also tuned to such a high-pitched voice.
But researchers, including those from the Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, hoped to assess whether dog brains are also sensitive to this way of communication.
In the study, conscious family dogs were made to listen to dog, infant and adult-directed speech recorded from 12 women and men in real-life interactions.
As the dogs listened, their brain activities were measured using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan.
The study found the sound-processing regions of the dogs’ brains responded more to dog- and infant-directed than adult-directed speech.
This marked the first neurological evidence that dog brains are tuned to speech directed specifically at them.
“Studying how dog brains process dog-directed speech is exciting, because it can help us understand how exaggerated prosody contributes to efficient speech processing in a nonhuman species skilled at relying on different speech cues,” explained Anna Gergely, co-first author of the study.
Scientists also found dog- and infant-directed speech sensitivity of dog brains was more pronounced when the speakers were women, and was affected by voice pitch and its variation.
These findings suggest the way we speak to dogs matters, and that their brain is specifically sensitive to the higher-pitched voice tone typical to the female voice.
“Remarkably, the voice tone patterns characterizing women’s dog-directed speech are not typically used in dog-dog communication – our results may thus serve evidence for a neural preference that dogs developed during their domestication,” said Anna Gábor, co-first author of the study.
“Dog brains’ increased sensitivity to dog-directed speech spoken by women specifically may be due to the fact that women more often speak to dogs with exaggerated prosody than men,” Dr Gabor said.
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