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A dog's life: study reveals people's hormonal link with tail-waggers
Reuters via Yahoo News ^
| 4/16/15
| Will Dunham
Posted on 04/16/2015 1:18:41 PM PDT by Kartographer
Dogs are called "man's best friend" - women's, too - and scientists say the bond between people and their pooches may be deeper than you might think.
Researchers in Japan said on Thursday oxytocin, a hormone that among other things helps reinforce bonds between parents and their babies, increases in humans and their dogs when they interact, particularly when looking into one another's eyes.
They described a series of experiments that suggest that people and their canine companions have mutually developed this instinctual bonding mechanism in the thousands of years since dogs were first domesticated.
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dog; doggieping
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To: trisham
Rufus would tell you that LOL
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posted on
04/16/2015 2:41:04 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
To: BigEdLB
And in perfect English, no doubt. :)
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posted on
04/16/2015 2:43:41 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: BigEdLB
Or maybe perfect French. :)
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posted on
04/16/2015 2:44:01 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Kartographer
One of my favorite things in life....Ruby!
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posted on
04/16/2015 2:53:00 PM PDT
by
lormand
(Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
To: trisham
Actually in German. His father’s name is Wolfgang and his mother is Anna
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posted on
04/16/2015 3:24:50 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
To: BigEdLB
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posted on
04/16/2015 3:25:47 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: cripplecreek
Our dog is our child. You eff with our dog you eff with us. LOL!
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posted on
04/16/2015 3:49:07 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Georgia Girl 2
Yeah that’s the way I feel about it.
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posted on
04/16/2015 3:49:47 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: cripplecreek
Your dogs are so cute. We are thinking about getting a JRT for our Chihuahua to mother as soon as we get over losing Buddy our Beagle. It was a year last month and I just can’t get past it yet. He was one in a million.
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posted on
04/16/2015 3:53:48 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Georgia Girl 2
I go the other way. I immediately get another dog.
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posted on
04/16/2015 4:00:24 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: lormand
One of my favorite things in life....Ruby!I've had eight of 'em! Eight very different personalities...
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posted on
04/16/2015 4:59:37 PM PDT
by
Does so
(SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; afraidfortherepublic; ...
WOOOF!
The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.
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posted on
04/16/2015 6:20:26 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Kartographer
From the “Battle of Gettysburg Buff” website.....
“The back of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment monument, located on Doubleday Avenue south of the observation tower on Oak Ridge, honors the memory of their beloved mascot, Sallie.
When the Union line collapsed north of town on July 1 and the men of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment eventually regrouped on Cemetery Hill, Sallie was among the missing. However, when members of the regiment returned on July 5 to Oak Ridge to bury their dead from the first day’s fighting, Sallie was still there, watching over and guarding the dead and wounded.
Sadly, Sallie did not survive the Civil War; she was shot in battle at Hatcher’s Run, Virginia, in 1864. Like her masters, she is gone but not forgotten.”
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posted on
04/16/2015 6:33:53 PM PDT
by
XRdsRev
(New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
To: Georgia Girl 2
I hope that I am a pretty good human being; hope to make the cut when I ain’t using this old carcass any more, but if there ain’t no dogs in Heaven I ain’t goin.
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posted on
04/16/2015 6:43:40 PM PDT
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: Kartographer
My former friend and constant partner... My Dog "Spot" (see:
Spoticus Dalmation on Facebook (w/more than 1200 "friends"!) I gave him to a family with 2 young boys, and he found a good home! I cried!
My new best friend ... Cadbury (like the chocolate), so named by my Filipina wife. He is almost one year old (May 9) and the wife wants to have a birthday party for him!!!
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posted on
04/16/2015 7:12:06 PM PDT
by
WVKayaker
(Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
To: cripplecreek
Always enjoy your photos. Here's one of my girls.
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posted on
04/16/2015 7:14:44 PM PDT
by
KirbDog
To: Pride in the USA
Haha. I always knew he was staring into everybody's eyes for a reason. Very effective, too.
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posted on
04/16/2015 8:08:09 PM PDT
by
lonevoice
(Life is short. Make fun of it.)
To: WVKayaker
If you don’t give him a party, he will never forget.
Dobes are like that.
Mine get a big stinking federal case made of it, every birthday.
:)
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posted on
04/16/2015 8:19:40 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
To: GoldenPup
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posted on
04/16/2015 8:44:46 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
To: kjam22
Here's my buddies...
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