{"id":751877,"date":"2018-03-17T13:11:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751877"},"modified":"2018-03-17T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T13:11:20","slug":"dog-speak-is-important-in-relationship-building-between-dogs-and-their-human-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751877","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dog-speak&#8217; is important in relationship-building between dogs and their human companions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CECILE BORKHATARIA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Researchers have found that &#8216;dog-speak&#8217; is important for bonding with your [companion dog]&#8230; Scientists found that dogs need to hear words spoken rhythmically in a high-pitched emotional voice in order to find it relevant. Experts said that speaking to your dog using a baby-like tone can have the same benefits that occur when a parent engage sin this way with a young child&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Dr Katie Slocombe, a researcher from the University of York&#8217;s Department of Psychology, said: &#8216;A special speech register, known as infant-directed speech, is thought to aid language acquisition and improve the way a human baby bonds with an adult&#8230; &#8216;This high-pitched rhythmic speech is common in human interactions with dogs in western cultures, but there isn&#8217;t a great deal known about whether it benefits a dog in the same way that it does a baby&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5469187\/Dog-Speak-important-bonding-pet-owner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZ2pw_yLk68\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CECILE BORKHATARIA: &#8216;Researchers have found that &#8216;dog-speak&#8217; is important for bonding with your [companion dog]&#8230; Scientists found that dogs need to hear words spoken rhythmically in a high-pitched emotional voice in order to find it relevant. Experts said that speaking to your dog using a baby-like tone can have the same benefits that occur when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[33,36],"class_list":["post-751877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kisnship","category-science","tag-intelligence","tag-sentience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751879,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751877\/revisions\/751879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}