Dogs

Reddit wants me to believe that Pedigree and other mainstream WSAVA compliant brands are the only possible foods to feed your dog.

All other foods will kill your dog. Raw will kill your dog. Homemade will kill your dog.

My shiba’s been on dehydrated turkey barley for 5 years and in the prime of her health. The problem is that the company that makes her food suddenly shut down and she refuses to eat kibble.

Anyone have any recommendations for non-kibble dog food for a picky dog?

However, the GWL dogs were much more likely to pick up a toy—particularly the new ones—and bring it to their owner, clearly attempting to get said owner to play with them. The typical dogs were more likely to opt for passive physical contact with their owners. The authors interpreted this as a difference in social style rather than curiosity, possibly mirroring the way human babies try to communicate with parents by pointing or showing objects to them.

“The way these dogs actively recruit humans into interactions around novel objects is intriguing,” said co-author Andrea Sommese of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria. “It raises the possibility that social motivation plays a role in why some dogs end up learning object names. Our results suggest that to understand why some dogs learn words, we may need to look less at the toys and more at the relationship. This opens new directions for studying how language-related skills can emerge in species that live so closely with humans.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43034537