'Best' way to apologise to your dog if you accidentally step on their paw
When you accidentally step on your dog's paw and they yelp out in pain, it's heartbreaking - but it turns out there's a simple way to say sorry that they'll understand
When you accidentally step on your dog's paw and they yelp out in pain, it's heartbreaking - but it turns out there's a simple way to say sorry that they'll understandThere's a sure-fire way of soothing your pup if you accidentally step on its paw (
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Hearing your dog yelp in pain is a gut-wrenching experience, particularly when you're the accidental cause.
But fret not, pet parents as scientists have cracked the code of how to say sorry to your furry friend in a way they'll truly understand. According to a study in Animal Cognition, using a baby voice – known as 'dog-directed speech' (DDS) – can calm your pooch after an unfortunate foot or tail mishap. The research involved 37 dogs whose owners volunteered them for the experiment, with some spoken to in a regular tone and others in DDS.
Those pups addressed with DDS were all ears for longer. A researcher penned: "Overall, the results of this study suggest that naturalistic DDS, comprising of both dog-directed [speech patterns] and dog-relevant content words, improves dogs' attention and may strengthen the affiliative bond between humans and their pets.", reports Surrey Live.
So next time you tread on your dog's toes, soothe them with a gentle, high-pitched apology, check for any boo-boos, and maybe give them an ice pack if there's any redness or swelling.
And in another revelation from The Royal Society, our canine companions might just be savvy enough to grasp human intentions through our emotional cues.
Scientists believe that when dogs appear to forgive their owners, they are able to understand that their owners did not mean to cause them harm. This is made clear in a study on canine behavior, which states: "The perception of emotional expressions allows animals to evaluate the social intentions and motivations of each other.
"This usually takes place within species; however, in the case of domestic dogs, it might be advantageous to recognise the emotions of humans as well as other dogs. In this sense, the combination of visual and auditory cues to categorise others' emotions facilitates the information processing and indicates high-level cognitive representations."
"Using a cross-modal preferential looking paradigm, we presented dogs with either human or dog faces with different emotional valences (happy/playful versus angry/aggressive) paired with a single vocalisation from the same individual with either a positive or negative valence or Brownian noise."
"Dogs looked significantly longer at the face whose expression was congruent to the valence of vocalisation, for both conspecifics and heterospecifics, an ability previously known only in humans. These results demonstrate that dogs can extract and integrate bimodal sensory emotional information, and discriminate between positive and negative emotions from both humans and dogs."
Social media users have been sharing their own ways of making amends with their pets, with one Reddit user commenting: "If you just talk nice to them and pet them and maybe give them a treat it's fine. Dogs accidentally hurt each other when they are playing and they get over it right away."
Another chimed in: "You just apologise the same way you would apologise to a child or when you hit someone by mistake. Petting him like crazy and talking with a comforting voice should be enough. Dogs understand mistakes."
A third added their insight: "You have effectively apologised, believe it or not. Dogs, cats, and pigs to I believe, are physically social animals and understand apologetic petting. They do it to each other all the time and they realise it's a mistake once you do so."
The conversation turned practical as well, with a reminder that if you've stepped on your dog's paw and suspect an injury, it's best to contact your vet immediately.
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