Don?t let your friends and family mock you for using a baby voice when you talk to your dog. A new study suggests that using high-pitched ?dog speak? to communicate with a dog improves its attention and may help humans socially bond with their pets. Researchers at York University in the U.K. wanted to test whether using ?dog-directed,? high-pitched speech facilitates understanding for dogs like baby talk does for babies. ?Obviously we know that dogs can?t learn to talk, so we wanted to know whether dog-speak also has a function for dogs, or whether it is simply something we tend to use with our pets in a culture where we think of dogs as part of the family, like fur-babies,? lead author Alex Benjamin told HuffPost, before noting ? as any proud dog mom would ? that you can follow her fur-baby Cooper on Instagram.
09-04-2018 - Vidéo