The sight of the pregnant dog wandering the empty streets, looking for help, is a heart-wrenching one. She had been abandoned by her previous owners and left to fend for herself, but now the time had come for her to give birth. As her contractions intensified, she knew she needed help to bring her puppies into the world safely.
In her search for assistance, she stumbled upon a nearby resident’s house, and she immediately knew she had found a potential lifeline. She began to bark and whine, hoping to draw attention to her plight. The resident, hearing the commotion, came outside to investigate and found the pregnant dog in distress. They knew they had to act fast to help her.
The resident brought the dog inside their home, creating a warm and safe space for her to give birth. As the hours ticked by, the dog labored tirelessly, bringing new life into the world. One by one, her puppies emerged, each one tiny and perfect. With each new arrival, the resident marveled at the strength and courage of the dog, who had endured so much to bring her puppies into the world.
As the days went by, the resident and the dog formed a special bond. The dog, grateful for the help and care she had received, showered her rescuer with affection and love. And the resident, moved by the dog’s resilience and strength, made the decision to give her a forever home. She had proven herself to be a loyal and loving companion, and she deserved nothing less than a life filled with love and comfort.
The story of this pregnant dog is a testament to the strength and resilience of animals in the face of adversity. Despite being abandoned and left to fend for herself, she never gave up hope, and she found help when she needed it most. Her story also highlights the power of compassion and kindness, and the incredible bond that can form between humans and animals.
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Dogs actually do respond better when their owners use cute ‘baby talk’, study finds
Dogs’ brains are sensitive to the familiar high-pitched “cute” voice tone that adult humans, especially women, use to talk to babies, according to a new study.
The research, published recently in the journal Communications Biology, found “exciting similarities” between infant and dog brains during the processing of speech with such a high-pitched tone feature.
Humans tend to speak with a specific speech style characterised by exaggerated prosody, or patterns of stress and intonation in a language, when communicating with individuals having limited language competence.
Such speech has previously been found to be very important for the healthy cognitive, social and language development of children, who are also tuned to such a high-pitched voice.
But researchers, including those from the Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, hoped to assess whether dog brains are also sensitive to this way of communication.
In the study, conscious family dogs were made to listen to dog, infant and adult-directed speech recorded from 12 women and men in real-life interactions.
As the dogs listened, their brain activities were measured using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan.
The study found the sound-processing regions of the dogs’ brains responded more to dog- and infant-directed than adult-directed speech.
This marked the first neurological evidence that dog brains are tuned to speech directed specifically at them.
“Studying how dog brains process dog-directed speech is exciting, because it can help us understand how exaggerated prosody contributes to efficient speech processing in a nonhuman species skilled at relying on different speech cues,” explained Anna Gergely, co-first author of the study.
Scientists also found dog- and infant-directed speech sensitivity of dog brains was more pronounced when the speakers were women, and was affected by voice pitch and its variation.
These findings suggest the way we speak to dogs matters, and that their brain is specifically sensitive to the higher-pitched voice tone typical to the female voice.
“Remarkably, the voice tone patterns characterizing women’s dog-directed speech are not typically used in dog-dog communication – our results may thus serve evidence for a neural preference that dogs developed during their domestication,” said Anna Gábor, co-first author of the study.
“Dog brains’ increased sensitivity to dog-directed speech spoken by women specifically may be due to the fact that women more often speak to dogs with exaggerated prosody than men,” Dr Gabor said.
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