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Your Dog Has a Unique Ability to Read Your Mind.  : ScienceAlert

05 Friday Sep 2025

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Your Dog Has a Unique Ability to Read Your Mind. Here’s Why. : ScienceAlert

Your dog tilts its head when you cry, paces when you’re stressed, and somehow appears at your side during your worst moments. Coincidence? Not even close.

Thousands of years of co-evolution have given dogs special ways to tune in to our voices, faces and even brain chemistry. From brain regions devoted to processing our speech to the “love hormone” or oxytocin that surges when we lock eyes, your dog’s mind is hardwired to pick up on what you’re feeling.

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Loki the Dog reading your mind

Article: How Dog-Owner Heart Rates Sync During Interaction

02 Wednesday Jul 2025

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Emotional Bonding: How Dog-Owner Heart Rates Sync During Interaction. Link below summary.

“Summary: Dogs and their owners show synchronized heart rate variability (HRV), reflecting shared emotional states during relaxed interactions, a new study reveals.”

https://neurosciencenews.com/dog-human-heart-synch-27996/

Marshall the Miracle Dog Becomes a Movie Star

24 Saturday Dec 2022

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“From a horrid life with an animal hoarder, this sweet three-legged dog has made a remarkable journey. Marshall was rescued, nursed back to health, adopted, and made the subject of a book called Marshall the Miracle Dog, written by his new owner, Cyndi Willenbrock. Then Hollywood came calling…” St Louis Magazine

Marshall the Miracle Dog

https://www.stlmag.com/news/marshall-the-miracle-dog/

How canine heart disease was tied to grain-free dog food | AP News

09 Friday Sep 2022

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“In 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, acting on input from a group of veterinary researchers, began investigating whether the increasing popularity of grain-free dog foods had led to a sudden rise in a potentially fatal heart disease in dogs, dilated cardiomyopathy.”

“Four years later, the FDA has found no firm link between diet and dilated cardiomyopathy. Nor has it rejected such a link, and research is ongoing. Publicity surrounding this issue, nevertheless, has shrunk the once-promising market for grain-free dog foods.”

https://apnews.com/article/science-health-pets-dogs-us-food-and-drug-administration-adbe215e2ee660b57b1d01dfff8d5f40