Choosing Healthy Dogs and Cute Videos That Aren't
Two new posts at Psychology Today look at important issues for animal welfare.
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I've got two new posts on my Psychology Today blog, Fellow Creatures, that look at different aspects of welfare for dogs and cats.
The first is about those supposedly cute videos on social media that are really painful to watch if you know anything about cat or dog body language. Scientists studied a set of popular dog and cat videos to see what kind of harms they showed.
You can read it here: Those "cute" animal videos aren't so cute after all.
The other post looks at a new tool called the innate health assessment. It's for anyone thinking of getting a dog or puppy. It's a simple checklist, complete with an illustrative diagram, that can be used to assess the innate health of a dog (for puppies, you would apply it to both parents).
A score of 8 out of 10 is a pass, and it's meant to make finding a healthy dog much easier.
Read about it here: A new checklist helps you choose a healthy dog.
