Dog

The heart rate component of the social reflex in dogs: the conditional effects of petting and person

Year Published: 1968Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Lynch, J. J., Gantt, W. H. 1968. The heart rate component of the social reflex in dogs: the conditional effects of petting and person. Conditional Reflex 3, 69-80.

Social responding in dogs: heart rate changes to a person

This paper reports the variable conditional effects of a person on the heart rate of nine mongrel dogs. There were three experimental procedures: person present and playing a passive role, person present and playing an active role (petting the dog),...

Year Published: 1969Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Lynch, J. J., McCarthy, J. F. 1969. Social responding in dogs: heart rate changes to a person. Psychophysiology 5(4), 389-393.

Understanding Your Dog

Social rearing of puppies is the most effective means of ensuring appropriate social behavior as adults.

Year Published: 1972Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Fox, M. W. 1972. Understanding Your Dog. Coward, McGann and Geoghegan, New York, NY.

Cage activity in the laboratory beagle: A preliminary study to evaluate a method of comparing cage size to physical activity

There appeared to be little difference between the general activity levels of the 2 dogs, regardless of the amount of [unstructured] activity space available.

Year Published: 1975Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Neamand, J., Sweeny, W. T., Creamer, A. A. et al. 1975. Cage activity in the laboratory beagle: A preliminary study to evaluate a method of comparing cage size to physical activity. Laboratory Animal Science 25, 180-183.

Evolution of social behavior in canids

Dogs who have been handled as puppies show greater resistance to stress and greater disease tolerance than those who are have not been handled.

Year Published: 1975Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Fox, M. W. 1975. Evolution of social behavior in canids. In: The Wild Canids. Fox, M. W. (ed). Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY.

Effect of cage size on patterns of activity and health of beagle dogs

The results indicate that beagle dogs bred for laboratory purposes were not affected by the two different size [barren] cages. Dogs in the larger cages did not utilize the additional floor space which was three times the area of the...

Year Published: 1977Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Hite, M., Hanson, H. M., Bohidar, N. R. et al. 1977. Effect of cage size on patterns of activity and health of beagle dogs. Laboratory Animal Science 27, 60-64.

Apparent psychogenic polydipsia

Psychogenic polydipsia in dogs is described.

Year Published: 1977Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Lange, A. L. 1977. Apparent psychogenic polydipsia. In: Current Veterinary Therapy IV: Small Animal Practice. Kirk, R. W. (ed), 1098-1102. Saunders, PA, Philadelphia.

The biology of social attachments: opiates alleviate separation distress

The possibility that brain opiate systems participate in the control of social affect was assessed by determining capacity of low doses of exogenous opiates (0.125-0.50 mg/kg oxymorphone, and 0.10-0.50 mg/kg morphine sulfate) to reduce distress vocalizations of socially isolated puppies....

Year Published: 1978Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Panksepp J, H. B. C. R. B. P. S. J. 1978. The biology of social attachments: opiates alleviate separation distress. Biological Psychiatry 13(5), 607-18.

Differential effects of person in the dog and in the human

People have marked effects on dog's heart rate, with great individual variations for different persons. Apparently people to which the dog is attached have the greatest effect upon heart rate. Replications of the animal experiments using the psychotherapist and two...

Year Published: 1979Animal Type: Dog

Citation: Astrup, C. W., Gantt , W. H., Stephens, J. H. 1979. Differential effects of person in the dog and in the human. Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science 14, 104-107.

A resting platform for dog pens

After converting our dog holding facilities from commercial dog cages to pen type enclosures, it became apparent that suitable resting platforms were needed. Clear acrylic plastic was used to construct the resting platforms.

Year Published: 1980Topics: Environmental Enrichment, HousingAnimal Type: Dog

Citation: Feldhaus, R. A. 1980. A resting platform for dog pens. Laboratory Animal Science 30(4-1), 714-715.