Can your dog tell if you're pregnant and smell if you're stressed? with Dr. Catherine Reeve
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Zazie and Kristi discuss with Dr. Catherine Reeve whether dogs can detect pregnancy and stress in their owners.
Leave us a voicemail! Zazie and Kristi chat with scientist Dr. Catherine Reeve about her research to find out whether dogs change their behaviour when their owner is pregnant and if they can use their noses to detect when someone is stressed. We talked about: The survey that investigated whether women think their dog's behaviour changed when they were pregnantThe kinds of dogs that were most likely to show changesHow the scientists got scent samples from people who were stressedThe training t...
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Hosts: Zazie Todd PhD, Kristi Benson CTC
Guest: Dr. Catherine Reeve
Topics covered
- dog behavior
- pregnancy
- stress detection
- animal research
- canine senses
Keywords
- dog behavior
- pregnancy
- stress
- canine senses
- animal research
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