Posted on 03/15/2024 7:39:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new study shows what dog lovers have known all along: petting dogs isn't just nice for the dog—it's good for you, too.
Scientists being scientists, they had to headline today's best story with this buzzkill of a buzzword salad: "Psychophysiological and emotional effects of human–Dog interactions by activity type: An electroencephalogram study."
I'm curious why Dog is capitalized but human isn't. Maybe these guys like Dogs as much as I do. Or maybe the AP Stylebook considers Dogs to be a marginalized group worthy of capitalization, like "Black" but not "White." Also, I had to look up "electroencephalogram," and I'm okay getting my skull all wired up for one if there are Dogs involved.
So what the scientists did was take a group of 30 adult humans between the ages of about 20 and 35 and give them Dogs to play with. But scientists being scientists, there was a bit more to it than that.
The humans had their heads wired up for electroencephalogram readings from the prefrontal, frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes of the brain. Each human was then given eight activities to perform with a single dog for three minutes per activity. The activities included "meeting, playing, feeding, massaging, grooming, photographing, hugging, and walking." Those are all things that good dogs love, except for the photographing part, which most dogs love but that the most photogenic dog in the world — my best girl, Remy — shies away from.
The photo atop this article is one of maybe six really good pictures I've gotten of her in 11 years. Seriously, she sees the camera come out (or the iPhone; she figured that out at once) and hides her face.
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My wife has animal allergies so no pets in our home. However my neighbor has a golden who gets a fair amount of love from me over the fence. She doesn’t seem to be impacted by the doodles.
I don’t have a dog but my kids do. I adore those dogs like they were my own, especially the Bernedoodle. He’s the most affectionate dog I’ve ever come across.
UH OH. This study will be memory holed because Muslims hate dogs.
I have to imagine people who have dogs also have better immune systems. We have adapted together for 10s of thousands of years and without dogs humans would not have been able to conquer the northern lands, establish animal husbandry, and protect our tribes. Along with that I am certain the germs and dirt dogs brought in helped build our immune systems.
I wonder. Has there been a study of Kung Flu infections between dog owners and non dog owners? Could be interesting.
“ Doesn’t this apply to cats as well?”
No.
No one likes cats.
No one in your hollow skull, that is.
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