[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Sound of Dog's 'Laugh' Calms Other Pooches
- From: Sheila Lieberman <sheilaofmiami@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ricknaudra@xxxxxxx, Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 08:55:59 -0800 (PST)
I often use dog vocalizations to get my point across at home. I tried the long
pant and the dogs came right over and started poking and licking me. They
liked it! Sheila
ricknaudra@xxxxxxx wrote: This is cool...
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=1370911
Researchers: Canine Laugh Is Long Loud Panting Sound
Dec. 4, 2005 ? Researchers at the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection
Service in Washington state say sometimes a bark is just a bark ? but a long,
loud panting sound has real meaning.
They say the long, loud pant is the sound of a dog laughing, and it has a
direct impact on the behavior of other dogs.
"What we found is that it had a calming or soothing effect on the dogs," said
Patricia Simonet, an animal behaviorist in Spokane who has studied everything
from hamster culture to elephant self-recognition. "Now, we actually really
weren't expecting that."
Nancy Hill, director of Spokane County Animal Protection, admits she was
skeptical at first that this noise would affect the other dogs.
"I thought: Laughing dogs?" Hill said. "A sound that we're gonna isolate and
play in the shelter? I was a real skeptic ? until we played the recording here
at the shelter."
When they played the sound of a dog panting over the loudspeaker, the gaggle of
dogs at the shelter kept right on barking. But when they played the dog version
of laughing, all 15 barking dogs went quiet within about a minute.
"It was a night-and-day difference," Hill said. "It was absolutely phenomenal."
Officials say it works every time, and researchers across the country are
taking note.
"The laughing sound that they make is something that was not even considered a
vocalization until this study was done," Simonet said.
Those who study dog behavior have varying opinions about exactly what Patricia
Simonet's "dog laughing" sound really is. What they do agree on, however, is
that to other dogs, it is at least a sound worth keeping quiet to listen to.
-Rick Haase
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