Your
dog has a "guilty look" on his face and you are certain your pet has
misbehaved in some way, so you give him a stern warning while searching
for evidence of the forbidden deed.
The Hunt of Her Life: A book about a rescue dog that will touch your heart
The Hunt of Her Life: A book about a rescue dog that will touch your heart
You
check the trash barrel, look for creases on the bed spread and examine
the latch on the food bin to see if your dog has gotten into some of
those off-limits places, but you find no wrongdoing.
So
why does your dog have that guilty look even though he is innocent? He
is simply displaying body language in reaction to the harsh tone or body
language you are using because a study has found dogs are incapable of
feeling remorse even when they actually do misbehave.
THE HUNT OF HER LIFE, is a nonfiction book
about Samantha, an unwanted rescue dog who the author adopts at age 2.
This beautifully designed deluxe full-color book, by longtime newspaper journalist Joseph A. Reppucci, contains more than 60 vibrant color photos of dogs to help illustrate the compelling and uplifting
story of Samantha - a pretty tricolor bird dog who uses her warm
personality to win people over and build a new family after being put up
for adoption by a hunter because she is gun-shy and afraid to hunt.
Learn how she uses her special bonding abilities with people to help her
eventually make a transition from the hunting fields to family life. While
reading the The Hunt of Her Life, you will travel with Samantha and the
author along a trail filled with surprising twists, sudden turns,
mystery and even what some call a miracle. And when the journey is
finished, you may never look at people and their pets, motherhood - and
perhaps even God - in the same way. The
Hunt of Her Life is must reading. It will take you on a captivating
journey - a trip like no other - that will touch your heart.
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A book about a rescue dog
that will touch your heart
that will touch your heart
THE HUNT OF HER LIFE, is a nonfiction book
about Samantha, an unwanted rescue dog who the author adopts at age 2.
This beautifully designed deluxe full-color book, by longtime newspaper journalist Joseph A. Reppucci, contains more than 60 vibrant color photos of dogs to help illustrate the compelling and uplifting
story of Samantha - a pretty tricolor bird dog who uses her warm
personality to win people over and build a new family after being put up
for adoption by a hunter because she is gun-shy and afraid to hunt.
Learn how she uses her special bonding abilities with people to help her
eventually make a transition from the hunting fields to family life. While
reading the The Hunt of Her Life, you will travel with Samantha and the
author along a trail filled with surprising twists, sudden turns,
mystery and even what some call a miracle. And when the journey is
finished, you may never look at people and their pets, motherhood - and
perhaps even God - in the same way. The
Hunt of Her Life is must reading. It will take you on a captivating
journey - a trip like no other - that will touch your heart.
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People
who believe dogs can display "guilty looks" are transposing their human
perceptions onto their pets, according to the study, published in
Behavioural Processes and done by Alexandra Horowitz, an assistant
professor at Barnard College in New York.
“This is a remarkably powerful demonstration,” Clive D.L. Wynne, editor of the special issue of Behavioural Processes that published the study's results and a psychology professor at the University of Florida, states in a media release. The study shows more research is needed to help understand the human-dog relationship and to dispel human prejudices about animal behavior, he said.
In
the study, Horowitz was able to show that people see "guilt" in a dog’s
body language when they believe the dog had misbehaved - even if the
dog is innocent of any offense.
During
the study, owners were asked to leave the room after ordering their
dogs not to eat a tasty treat. While the owner was away, Horowitz gave
some dogs the forbidden treat before asking the owners to return to the
room.
Some owners were
told that their dog had eaten the forbidden treat; others were told
their dog had behaved properly and left the treat alone. What the owners
were told, however, often did not correlate with reality.
Whether
a dog had a "guilty look" had little to do with whether he had actually
eaten the forbidden treat. Dogs who looked “guilty” were the ones
admonished by their owners for eating the treat, whether they did so or
not. Even dogs that had been obedient and had not eaten the treat, but
were scolded by their (misinformed) owners, looked “guilty.” If some
cases, they looked more "guilty" than those that had actually eaten the
treat.
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Thus a dog’s guilty look was a response to the owner’s behavior rather than being indicative of any understanding of its own misdeeds, the study concludes.
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The Ruff Report is a column that appears on MySetterSam.com,
a blog written by Joseph A. Reppucci, a retired editor from The Patriot
Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts. Mr. Reppucci worked as a reporter and editor on major daily
newspapers in the Boston area for more than 30 years. He is the author
of the book, The Hunt of Her Life,
a heartwarming story about his once-in-a-lifetime rescue dog. Find it on Amazon.com.
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