As the worldwide popularity of animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) increases, the field is
quickly approaching a paradigm shift, adjusting its image to incorporate more evidence …

Dogs perform a variety of integral roles in our society, engaging in work ranging from
assistance (eg, service dogs, guide dogs) and therapy to detection (eg, search-and-rescue …

Behavioural studies revealed that the dog–human relationship resembles the human mother–
child bond, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we report the results of a …

Working dogs play a variety of important roles, ranging from assisting individuals with
disabilities, to explosive and medical detection work. Despite widespread demand, only a …

Highlights•We assessed cognitive and temperament traits in 8-to 10-week-old
puppies.•Puppies reliably used cooperative-communicative gestures.•Puppies differentiated …

Simple Summary Assistance dogs support humans with a variety of disabilities. Although
guide dogs in particular have a long tradition in Western cultures, the legal situation around …

Domestic dogs are highly social and have been shown to be sensitive not only to the actions
of humans and other dogs but to the interactions between them. We used the C-BARQ scale …

Assistance dogs can greatly improve the lives of people with disabilities. However, a large
proportion of dogs bred and trained for this purpose are deemed unable to successfully fulfill …

Specialized detector dogs are increasingly being utilized for the detection of modern threats.
The Vapor Wake®(VW) dog was developed to create a dog phenotype ideally suited for …

In recent years, two well-developed methods of studying mental processes in humans have
been successively applied to dogs. First, eye-tracking has been used to study visual …