Can you spare 15 min? The measurable positive impact of a 15-min petting session on shelter dog well-being

Who Is Pulling the Leash? Effects of Human Gender and Dog Sex on Human–Dog Dyads When Walking On-Leash

“…Men were not found to use more negative verbal cues but they were more likely to initiate physical contacts, which is in line with a previous study showing that men controlled their dogs more by physically restraining and holding them [ 7 ]. As a result, dogs become calmer as there are more frequent and longer physical contacts with men [ 31 ].…”

“…Canine behaviours ( Table 3 ), human verbal cues ( Table 4 ) and human body languages ( Table 5 ) were coded using ethograms developed by referring to previous research [ 13 , 24 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 ] and modified during practice sessions. Behaviours were coded as ‘point events’ or ‘state events’.…”

Laboratory Animal Welfare Meets Human Welfare: A Cross-Sectional Study of Professional Quality of Life, Including Compassion Fatigue in Laboratory Animal Personnel

“…Considering these contrary effects, it is difficult to make general recommendations for personnel on these specific human-animal interactions in terms of human welfare. In terms of animal welfare, petting may be beneficial for some animals, such as dogs (32), but negative for others such as naïve laboratory rats, in which case rat tickling is recommended instead (33). Despite this, positive human-animal interactions should be beneficial for animal welfare although more research is needed in this area (34,35).…”

Where Do We Stand in the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris) Positive-Emotion Assessment: A State-of-the-Art Review and Future Directions

“…Time-domain measurements (linear analysis) record the variability of the successive heartbeats during the measured time periods. They include parameters such as mean RR, SDRR/SDNN, RMSSD, NN50, and pNN50 (Shaffer and Ginsberg, 2017;Drury et al, 2020 Assessing canine emotional states by implementing HRV indices has been gaining research popularity in recent years (Bergamasco et al, 2010;Gácsi et al, 2013;Bowman et al, 2015;Katayama et al, 2016;Travain et al, 2016;Zupan et al, 2016;McGowan et al, 2018;Köster et al, 2019). It has been proposed that HRV parameters might be sensitive indicators of emotional Poincaré plot representing the standard deviation perpendicular to the line of identity (the standard deviation of instantaneous beat-to-beat R-R interval variability) (Tulppo et al, 1996) SD2 ms 2 Poincaré plot representing the standard deviation along the line of identity (the standard deviation of continuous long-term R-R interval variability) (Tulppo et al, 1996) ApEn Approximate entropy, quantifying the regularity and complexity of a time series (Pincus et al, 1991) SampEn Sample entropy estimates the regularity and complexity of a time series (Richman and Moorman, 2000) DFA α1…”

“…Detrended fluctuation analysis, reflecting short-term fluctuations (Peng et al, 1995;Ho et al, 1997) DFA α2 Detrended fluctuation analysis, reflecting long-term fluctuations (Peng et al, 1995;Ho et al, 1997) D valence (Katayama et al, 2016) and tend to be less affected by physical activity compared to HR (Maros et al, 2008). Positive-emotion-eliciting stimuli, such as food, human-dog interaction, and listening to music, all resulted in changes of HRV parameters in dogs (Bergamasco et al, 2010;Bowman et al, 2015;Travain et al, 2016;Zupan et al, 2016;McGowan et al, 2018).…”