Animals develop relationships with intra-and interspecific partners, including humans. In
some cases this can lead to strong emotional bonds indicating the existence of attachment …

Modern behavioural tests for domestic dogs are commonly employed across a variety of
fields, including the assessment of companion, assistance, working and sporting dogs …

Background It has been suggested that dogs display a secure base effect similar to that
found in human children (ie, using the owner as a secure base for interacting with the …

Infrared thermography (IRT) represents a non-invasive method to investigate stress
responses in animals. Despite the large existing literature about stress responses in dogs …

Emotional contagion, a basic component of empathy defined as emotional state-matching
between individuals, has previously been shown in dogs even upon solely hearing negative …

Separation anxiety has long been recognized as an anxiety-related disorder in dogs that is
only observed in the owner's real absence or perceived absence. Over the past four …

Previous research has suggested that owners' attitude to their family dogs may contribute to
a variety of behaviour problems in the dog, and authors assume that dogs with separation …

For dogs, humans are likely to be the most important feature in their environment influencing
their welfare. To investigate a commonly occurring human–dog interaction, behavioural and …

Diagnoses are widely used in both human and veterinary medicine to describe the nature of
a condition; by contrast, syndromes are collections of signs that consistently occur together …

There are few quantitative examinations of the extent to which dogs discriminate between
familiar and unfamiliar persons. In our study we have investigated whether dogs show …