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Don't miss our suggestions for fun for Las Vegas!  and take your pet to a fun daycare facility so you don't feel guilty!

Have you ever used a by owner vacation rental such as VRBO or Trip Advisor or Airbnb? They often provide much more space, especially when travelling with a pet -as well as real kitchens. Check out the list of the best ones offered by VRBO and Trip Advisor for Las Vegas!

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Las Vegas takes care of you when you visit with your dog - to make sure both of you have a good time!  Check out the dog parks at www.petfriendlylasvegas.com/parks.html 

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Did you know there are GREAT pet friendy hotels in Las Vegas!

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How about the Resort on Mount Charleston???

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Fall travel is really my favorite - cool weather, beautiful leaves and vistas. Thinking of the Berkshires? Try Clover Hill Farm: Take a walk around the 50 acre property or the adjoining fields and enjoy all the views. WALKING DISTANCE from....
Williams College, Williamstown, Theater Festival, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
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Clover Hill Farm

A Man's Best Friend

A man’s best friend: Study shows dogs can recognize human emotions

Date:

January 12, 2016

Source:

University of Lincoln

Summary:

Dogs can recognize emotions in humans by combining information from different senses -- an ability that has never previously been observed outside of humans, a new study published today reveals.

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For the first time, researchers have shown that dogs must form abstract mental representations of positive and negative emotional states, and are not simply displaying learned behaviours when responding to the expressions of people and other dogs.

Credit: Image courtesy of University of Lincoln

Dogs can recognise emotions in humans by combining information from different senses – an ability that has never previously been observed outside of humans, a new study published today reveals.

For the first time, researchers have shown that dogs must form abstract mental representations of positive and negative emotional states, and are not simply displaying learned behaviours when responding to the expressions of people and other dogs.

The findings from a team of animal behaviour experts and psychologists the University of Lincoln, UK, and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, are published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

The researchers presented 17 domestic dogs with pairings of images and sounds conveying different combinations of positive (happy or playful) and negative (angry or aggressive) emotional expressions in humans and dogs. These distinct sources of sensory input – photos of facial expressions and audio clips of vocalisations (voices or barks) from unfamiliar subjects – were played simultaneously to the animals, without any prior training.

The team found the dogs spent significantly longer looking at the facial expressions which matched the emotional state (or valence) of the vocalisation, for both human and canine subjects.

The integration of different types of sensory information in this way indicates that dogs have mental representations of positive and negative emotional states of others.

Researcher Dr Kun Guo, from the University of Lincoln’s School of Psychology, said: “Previous studies have indicated that dogs can differentiate between human emotions from cues such as facial expressions, but this is not the same as emotional recognition.

“Our study shows that dogs have the ability to integrate two different sources of sensory information into a coherent perception of emotion in both humans and dogs. To do so requires a system of internal categorisation of emotional states. This cognitive ability has until now only been evidenced in primates and the capacity to do this across species only seen in humans.”

Co-author Professor Daniel Mills, from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Lincoln, said: “It has been a long-standing debate whether dogs can recognise human emotions. Many dog owners report anecdotally that their pets seem highly sensitive to the moods of human family members.

“However, there is an important difference between associative behaviour, such as learning to respond appropriately to an angry voice, and recognising a range of very different cues that go together to indicate emotional arousal in another. Our findings are the first to show that dogs truly recognise emotions in humans and other dogs.

“Importantly, the dogs in our trials received no prior training or period of familiarisation with the subjects in the images or audio. This suggests that dogs' ability to combine emotional cues may be intrinsic. As a highly social species, such a tool would have been advantageous and the detection of emotion in humans may even have been selected for over generations of domestication by us.”