The Healing Arts

I love this post...very interesting. Any word about us people have felines?
-Nicole

I really like this post and have conducted experiments of my own on this topic. I have an extremely emotional dog. He becomes very fearful and agitated when exposed to anything novel and I have a difficult time doing routines with him as well. Once he has made a negative association, my dog never forgets the "trauma" of certain events. He hates getting his nails cut, for example, and as we approach the groomers he begins to shake and cry. I found that if I play rap music or other fast tunes, he gets even more agitated as we approach and re-acts more negatively to the nail clipping session. I actually changed the channel to a classical station last time I took him to get his nails done and I sware he was a bit calmer. He still shook and wined but his fear seemed to be slightly lessened by exposure to soothing music in the car ride. Guess it can't hurt to put on Bach on the way to the groomers or vet's office.

i am going to attempt to teach a dog to perform a task when a certain note is played on a flute(i play the flute) and since it is for my science fair project i need to find out whether it would be easier for a trained or untrained dog.

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@rebecca i would use a trained dog- they are use to following and repeating commands, and they would be easier to work with