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 …

Detection dogs are widely considered the most effective and adaptive method for explosives
detection. Increases in emerging sophisticated threats are accelerating the demand for …

While our understanding of adult dog cognition has grown considerably over the past 20
years, relatively little is known about the ontogeny of dog cognition. To assess the …

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

Interspecific communication between dogs and humans enables dogs to occupy significant
roles in human society, both in companion and working roles. Dogs excel at using human …

Simple Summary The ability to predict a puppy's future working success is important for
working dog programs to maximize the number of dogs placed in service and allocate …

Dogs' special relationship with humans not only makes them ubiquitous in our lives, but
working dogs specifically perform essential functions for us such as sniffing out bombs and …

Communication between dogs and humans is a topic of growing interest, and the
“unsolvable task” is a common method used to measure human-directed communication. In …

Working dogs are used for a range of important operational tasks. Identifying potentially
successful working dogs as early as possible is important as rejection rates are high and …

In human infants, the ability to show gaze alternations between an object of interest and
another individual is considered fundamental to the development of complex social …