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For blog post #2 I\u2019m going to talk about Leo, and how his behavior could be explained by information from\u00a0 \u201cGrumpy Dogs Are Smart Learners-the Association between Dog-Owner Relationship and Dogs’ Performance in a Social Learning Task,\u201d by\u00a0 <\/span>P\u00e9ter Pongr\u00e1cz primarily<\/span>. To test this theory dog owners first had to take a test regarding their relationships with their dogs. In this test owners had to answer questions about the dogs’ natures and their relationship status with the dogs.Afterwards, there were 3 groups where one was a dog completing a task with no instruction, another being instructed by their owner, and the third group was instructed by the demonstrator group. Dogs that were \u201cirritable\u201d performed best when they were with the unfamiliar demonstrator group. However, dogs that were more obedient did best when they were with their owners. A subgroup of that category was split by dogs that were more self driven and didn\u2019t look back at their owners much for help, while others needed much more reassurance from their owner.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, how does Leo fit into all of this? I haven\u2019t taken the quiz, so I don\u2019t know exactly what our relationship is. But, I feel like we have a good bond that he is dependent on, and he has a sweet, mellow personality. Since he hates strangers, I would definitely assume he would do better with me or my parents rather than the random demonstrator. He\u2019s very lazy so he probably wouldn\u2019t do great at the detour tests in general. As someone that has had multiple dogs throughout my life, I agree with the article\u2019s claim that the dog-human relationship affects the social behavior of dogs. Overall his behavior would be categorized as obedient, however he is not a dog that is willing to tackle tasks on his own. Behaviors he has, like cowering away from cleaning people, but when we are around he will just stand by our side, or even become aggressive, are very confusing. I would love to see him do the experiment to fully understand his behaviors.<\/span><\/p>\n Pongr\u00e1cz P;Rieger G;V\u00e9kony. \u201cGrumpy Dogs Are Smart Learners-the Association between Dog-Owner Relationship and Dogs’ Performance in a Social Learning Task.\u201d <\/span>Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI<\/span><\/i>, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 30 Mar. 2021, https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33808379\/.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For blog post #2 I\u2019m going to talk about Leo, and how his behavior could be explained by information from\u00a0 \u201cGrumpy Dogs Are Smart Learners-the Association between…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4955,"featured_media":378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mansbestfriend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mansbestfriend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mansbestfriend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mansbestfriend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mansbestfriend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mansbestfriend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mansbestfriend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mansbestfriend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mansbestfriend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mansbestfriend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}