Classical music may help dogs settle when they are home alone but playing audiobooks has no effect, QUBelfast researchers find
But researchers from the Animal Behaviour Centre at QUB's School of Psychology decided to study if classical music or audiobooks reduced stress for domestic dogs when they were separated from their owners for a short time.
To test whether classical music or an audiobook reduced that stress, they played 82 dogs involved in the study a Mozart Sonata and the audiobook of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. "Dogs exposed to classical music were significantly faster to lie down than animals in the audiobook condition and quicker to settle than animals in the audiobook and control conditions," the research paper said.But the researchers found that listening to an audiobook did not reduce the short-term stress dogs felt on being separated from their owners.
"The research points to auditory stimulation having little value to dogs in situations of short-term acute stress."
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