Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Fido jealous? Not man's best friend!

You’ve known it all along, but a recent study shows that dogs do get jealous. In a recent study, researchers determined that dogs do indeed get jealous when their people showered affection on a decoy toy. The dogs tried to get between their owners and the toy, and some dogs even snapped at the dummy dog. We can interpret this as jealousy, or as as resource guarding, which is  commonly used term in training and behavior medicine. For the full article, click here.