Labs are playful and chows can be aggressive-sounds like you have a handle on the situation

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If there hadn't been bonding, there wouldn't have been the wonderful relationship that many dogs and humans have had in the past. Behavioral science probably developed to explain some of this in a positive way. With the needs of different breeds and large work dogs moving to the city, etc. people need to learn how to relate to dogs and other animals. This is where TV pop trainers and local behaviorists are extremely helpful. Many of our members live in rural areas, where vet care is almost impossible, or are struggling financially. Personally, I think that bonding is more of an emotional state than a scientific state. My hounds watch my body language and are intuitive to the emotional needs of my son, a disabled vet, so they probably sense my emotions too. I do know that the USAF studied the SS camp dogs to learn more about obtaining predictable canine behavior, and it was the basis of today's science. Stanford is really credited as a major vet school that studies animal behavior for many species. Stanford is sort of a flag ship for vets and animal studies. Penn State is also a great school. My hounds were wild and don't respond to hand signals, so I have many reasons to believe a study from Stanford that supports this observation. Here's another study that's parallel to the Stanford study about communication in humans. Linguists and neurologists know that a Northwest Native American language has clicks in it. if a child isn't exposed to the language before it's 6 months old, the child can't hear the clicks. If the child is exposed to the language before the age of 6 months, years later neuro sensors show a response to the clicks made by a native speaker. They spent about 10 years doing this study, and they used babies from all races. The BIA listened to the anecdotal tales of grandmothers complaing that their language was dying, so the study was developed, and it proved the grandmothers were correct..

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