Norling, Yezica
- Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
The aim of this study was to identify behavioural indicators of positive emotional states in 9 female beagles by studying a variety of subtle movements. Dogs were trained to remain stationary in a test cubicle with transparent sides while filmed from the front, side and above. Dogs faced a stimuli presentation device with a shutter that revealed one of three stimuli; a familiar person smiling and talking in a praising voice (P1), a meatball (P2), both presumed positive, and a wooden block (N) presumed neutral. To each dog, each stimulus was presented once in each of 6 sequences. Behaviour was recorded for 5 seconds before and after each stimulus presentation. Data were analysed with generalized linear mixed model. Only significant differences with P
Published in
Title: Quality of life in designed environments? Proc. of the 46th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology
Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
Conference
46th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology
SLU Authors
Keeling, Linda
- Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UKÄ Subject classification
Other Veterinary Science
Publication identifier
- ISBN: 978-90-8686-204-7
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/42540