It’s called pet-directed speech (PDS) and it involves talking in a slow, high-pitched voice, repeating words and sounding more positive and happier than when people talk to adults. People talk to babies in a similar fashion, Leah Rosenbaum writes for seeker.com.
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Researchers at the Université Paris Nanterre found dogs pay more attention to people who speak to them in PDS than a normal “adult” voice. They think this type of speaking increases neural processing, or how a brain perceives stimuli.
According to Inverse.com, similar research was done at the University of York. Researchers studied how dogs responded to dog-related speech or a high-pitched voice with dog-relevant phrases. The results showed dogs spend more time with people who speak to them in “dog-speak” using “dog-relevant” words.
Be honest. Many of you do, too, or at know someone who does. And if you’re been teased about your sing-song voice, take heart. You have science on your side.
Andrea: Some dogs howl and they are becoming more stimulated by it. It doesn’t mean they are enjoying it or not enjoying it. Hard rock is potentially pretty agitating for them, and melodious/classical music is soothing. As humans, we want to think our dogs are giving a human response to music, when really they are just showing stimulation.Garrett: I have worked with certain dogs who will start “singing” when they hear certain instruments. And a few other dogs who certainly seem distressed by the same sounds. There is a police dog in my care that absolutely hates jazz, the NY1 jingle, and the intro score to Law & Order. He howls every time he hears it. Humans come along and can voluntarily or involuntarily reinforce any of these stimulated reactions by the attention they pay to their pet when they are responding to music.We researched this Law & Order thing. Apparently, lots of dogs are “stimulated” by it:
So there you have it. Some dogs like music, some don’t. Some have musical taste and others just hear white noise. Some dogs love Law & Order, others prefer Game of Thrones.
It’s OK, it doesn’t like anyone else’s, either. Some of the best YouTube videos, in our opinion, are the ones that involve dogs doing pretty much anything. But there are a few videos in a class all their own; namely, videos of dogs bobbing their heads to music (see below). We were curious as to whether these pooches could actually hear the musicality of the songs they were listening to, and were enjoying it as much as they appeared to be. NYC dog trainers Garrett Rosso of Village Dog Works and Andrea Arden of Andrea Arden Dog Training enlightened us. Here are the videos that prompted us to ask: Can dogs hear music and do they have a musical sense?
Dogs have a superior sense of hearing that we do not have, so they can hear music. However, a vast majority of animals are desensitized to music over time. It just becomes white noise. Some dogs have a musical sense, some don’t.
Yes, dogs can absolutely hear music and are even sensitive to certain instruments, pitch, and harmonics. You’ve heard wolves and coyotes howling
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