Experiment proved: dog takes on the personality of its owner

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As you know, some external similarity of dogs with their owners is a practically proven fact. However, a new work by psychologists at Michigan State University has shown that dogs also associate with their owners a community of character traits that animals adopt from humans.

According to Science Direct, the authors examined about 1,600 dogs and their owners, representatives of about fifty different breeds, both sexes, and all ages. The owners of dogs answered the special questions, which allowed scientists to evaluate the features of their character, relationships with pets and the dogs’ personalities.

“The dog that you once took from the shelter is differ from the dog that has lived with you for ten years,” one of the scientists, William Chopik, commented on the study.

It turned out that active, moving animals more often coexist with physically active people. Prone to anxiety and aggressiveness dogs live with people who has these character traits. Psychologists believe that this happens for two reasons. First, owners immediately choose their pets “of their liking.” Second, their characters come closer throughout life together.

Science Direct notes that in the world of trick training, there are hundreds of tricks you can teach your dog and a wide variety of skills needed to perform those tricks. Some are flashy, like a performing animal in a circus, and others might require the development of a particular skill such as nosework, coordination or precision-based training, to name a few.

Here are 8 tricks that you can teach any dog to show people just how brilliant your canine companion really is! Namely, to teach a dog to Say Hi, Say Bye!, to play Black Jack, to read and to count, carry in the Groceries, bring a TV remote, name things and roll a cart in a supermarket.

All you need to get started are some tasty treats to reward your dog with, a clicker or way to mark the correct behavior (such as the verbal cue “Yes”) and a few minutes each day to have fun with your dog teaching them their new skill.

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