Dogs Know When We’re Stressed: Here’s How

 

From The Whole Dog Journal...

By

 Nancy Kerns

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Published:October 12, 2022

Does your dog seem to be empathetic when you're stressed? Here is how they can sense your feelings of stress.

It always makes me happy when scientists substantiate something about dogs that any loving dog owner already knows – but it’s icing on the cake when we learn exactly how this happens. A study, published in PLOS One in late September, has confirmed that dogs can detect when humans are stressed. Who hasn’t received devastating news via a phone call, email, or letter and immediately, before we could say a word, had our dogs approach us and attempt to comfort us? This sounded like a no-brainer.

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