My best friend.
Posted on 04/16/2015 1:18:41 PM PDT by Kartographer
Dogs are called "man's best friend" - women's, too - and scientists say the bond between people and their pooches may be deeper than you might think.
Researchers in Japan said on Thursday oxytocin, a hormone that among other things helps reinforce bonds between parents and their babies, increases in humans and their dogs when they interact, particularly when looking into one another's eyes.
They described a series of experiments that suggest that people and their canine companions have mutually developed this instinctual bonding mechanism in the thousands of years since dogs were first domesticated.
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
My best friend.
“All these years I’ve stayed with you, Boss Lady, a beautiful but broke Dobe, and you can’t bother to throw me a halfway decent birthday party? You don’t know what I suffer.”
The wort part is, when one dog has a birthday, I have to get *all* the dogs a gift, too or they feel slighted.
They can’t understand why one dog is getting a cool toy but they are not.
With 4 dogs, it’s hectic.
When I had 7 or 8, it was non-stop madness.
:D
Just wait until they grasp the value of money...
“So! Just because it’s Odhinn’s birthday, you think you can get away with bringing him the best gift....”
I have already negotiated that treacherous path.
Identical toys.
That’s the ticket.
[but the birthday dog gets to go out shopping]
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