junk science quickie
and while we’re on the subject, let’s look a little closer at a little bit in the spring issue of the bark. in a short titled “Dogs Dig Bach” they talked about a study done at Queens University in Belfast that allegedly found dogs liking classical music better. it’s actually an age-old question, and it desn’t matter much. it’s probably not so cool to subject your dog to anything loud, but the science behind their study really isn’t very sound at all, so don’t worry that you need to be playing them classical as opposed to jazz or rock or country or blues. how many dogs were tested? 50! and all in a rescue shelter! don’t know about you, but it seems pretty clear to me that to tell us anything useful about what kind of music dogs would prefer youd have to work with lots (more) dogs, from lots more varied backgrounds, in lots of different situations, and more than just 3 kinds of music and one track of human conversation. anyone who has done rescue work knows how differently dogs from different backgrounds can react to the same stuff. nuf said. woof.
