Have you tried it? I’m still trying to watch and learn about the whole subject, as it relates to my dogs. What range of dog personalities were present? Required fields are marked *. Many thanks! Kathy, I have loved the Enya music for chilling out so I will add that to my selection and see how it works. Other than doing my best to remember that long duration sounds eeeeezzzzzeee are going to work better to settle my fearful, reactive Finna we haven’t done much with sound. I have a reactive poodle and two hyper sensitive Belgian Shepherds and live on an Australian rural property where it can be very quiet 24/7. Pito suddenly put his little nose in the air and barked and barked and BARKED! I believe it has to do with the fact that notes played by a piano cannot be sustained, and so what I think of as the, ‘om’, effect doesn’t happen. I have always been a big believer in providing a super enriched environment for puppies – tactile, visual, auditory, olfactory. In one of the decade’s most innovative pieces of research, Snowdon used his knowledge of Cotton Top Tamarin vocalizations to ask what effect human music would have on another primate species. You also agree to our Terms of Service. Buy products such as SportPet Pop-Open Travel Dog Kennel at Walmart and save. So I feel it did help him. and both my Belgians, not to mention myself, fall asleep with it. Does it look pretty to us?–and fail to attend to the impact of sound on our dog’s environment (not to mention our own). For a graphic representation of this see http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/audio/advice/the-physical-principles-of-sound/ Diagram 5. 68 likes. I think it is the combination of the ‘white noise’ and the low-tone vibration that calms, relaxes, and sends him off to Dreamland. Shop for Dog Kennels in Dog Houses, Crates, Kennels, Cages, Beds. Contact Us | Helping your canine friend unwind begins with what you're listening to on the radio. 23 likes. He would never truly sleep when we were all home bopping around because he wanted to know what we were doing at all times. I liked the samples from the TADE site, considering buying at least one of them (for me AND my furbabies). I can agree with about 98.3% of your opinions. Here’s a link to samples of the modified music. But I applaud anyone who is seeking to make an environment more soothing for dogs, and I get it that the findings of this kind of study might have immediate practical application. I am a small animal massage and swim therapist…I work with dogs doing swim/massage therapy here in Seattle. We so often focus on other aspects of their environment–Is their dog bed comfy? My deep admiration for anyone attempting to tackle such a complex but important topic! The only consideration you might think about is damage to her hearing–I’m not an expert but I’d guess that dogs could also have the cilia in their inner ears damaged by loud sounds, just as people can. Or it could be that the ones who pile together have been here longer, so they’ve heard more music, period, than the newer dog. What about you? I haven’t tried the music that is specially designed to calm dogs, but my hyper collie does seem to settle when I put some nice, slow tempo violin and orchestra classical music on. The music was tolerable for me, a human, but I donated them a month ago. The dogs liked talk shows, very much, they would go right to sleep. News; pagina met slideshow; Home; Hoe werkt een Hondenshow While I haven’t noticed any difference in my dogs while listening to Through a Dogs Ear, a friend found she was able to reduce, then cut out Valium for her dogs during thunderstorms if she played it. I spoke to author and musicologist Joshua Leeds about Kogan’s results, and he too admitted to being surprised at the outcome. Maybe 10 years or so ago, “research” came out saying that classical music played for babies could “make them smarter”. that’s always been my belief with dogs.” It has just been a gut feeling of mine, but I have never heard of any studies verifying it, nor I have heard of any followups on the babies/ classical music idea. I plan to try the same thing when I travel this month to clicker expo. She is a very noisy dog who reacts to the neighbor’s six screaming kids. But science rarely marches forward with a single step. I’d love to hear about your experience. My ex-husband was a violinist (a good one, too–I’m not sure that ability makes a different to pets, because our pets reacted in a parallel way to our music students, even if the kids were beginners), and the dogs tended not to like the sound of the violin, but did like the cello. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. Thanks so much for all you do for dogs. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. In the early 90’s I started singing on a Kiowa drum. After mulling it over for a few days, I think another factor that could influence the effects of sound is the ever-pervasive word in dog training, “context.” Like so many other aspects of behavior, I think context matters here too. It strikes me that this sort of study has an awful lot of variables to control for – the acoustic effect of the environment (eg hard surfaces v soft furnishings), effect of the music on the mood of human carers, dog’s previous history and possible associations of certain types of music with certain moods, etc, etc. I will have to change my materials now. Classical music helps dogs spend more time sleeping and less time barking when they're housed in kennels or temporary accommodation, new research claims. Thus, it is not the classification of the music that matters, but the features of each piece that make the difference. I just don’t know, and as I find the process startling and it leaves me a bit jangly, I was so concerned that she also has reactions to it that maybe we won’t see until it’s too late – perhaps behavioral problems that won’t come out until they are completely out of control, I don’t know. Not to mention us too. I love how many people admit that it calms, them, too — I am not alone ;-). I use very different music for housecleaning than I do for helping myself fall asleep, for instance. With an outdoor dog kennel, you can give your pooch that much-needed open sky without worrying that they’ll wander off. Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. But after that? It was fascinating. I have loads of natural sound CDs, some with music to back up the recorded sounds and some without. Otis does have some sounds that function as relaxation triggers, though. The song didn’t matter, the tone and volume seemed to be factors. And who knows, maybe we’ll get Gina relaxed enough to go through with acupuncture . Behavior, but did the Kogan study replicate a kennel/shelter environment or use an existing shelter? The dog curls right up under the piano when he plays and when they play his CD, she curls up right next to the speaker. I’m not sure if it was the music itself calming her ( it calmed me as well) or the fact that the kids were harder to hear. That's why we considered differentiating factors like size and portability in choosing our five favorite kennels." I have noticed it definably maters what I am playing on the piano if the dog leave the room. (I used to play music, TADE and others, when we lived on a busy street, and it seemed to have a calming effect on both until the neighbor dog made his daily stop to pee on the bushes. I think if the dog is in a relaxed state (on your lap or near you) while the music is played it will help later on when the dog hears the music. Your email address will not be published. Worth noting: my girl knows so many environmental sound cues it shocks even my neuroscientist spouse — maybe TADE works best for her sort of supersonic nervous system? I have tried numerous methods( alone and in combination) to calm my dog, including the Dog’s Ear CDs. Interestingly I also found that the first volume of TADE was much less consistant for level of recordings. I really appreciate your input, we try hard to do right by our “kids” and some concerns just don’t seem to have nice clean answers with consensus so I am grateful to have gotten the input of such a specialized professional. Light My rescue golden Spencer has not been a fan of rides in the car since his initial 4 hour ride to his now forever home. For example, during the presentation of “classical music,” (Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Blue Danube Waltz & Air on a G String) the dogs were observed sleeping 3.7 to 6.0 % of the time. She has a whole raft of triggers and bad associations that we’re working on and the things that seemed to help her the most when we adopted her 13 months ago were lack of activity and silence. I’m sorry to say that I haven’t yet heard, Through A Dog’s Ear, but I do have definite opinions on the subject of music for dogs. \"We have a very human tendency to project onto our pets and assume that they will like what we like,\" said Charles Snowdon, an authority on the musical preferences of animals. I have not noticed any change in my dogs behavior for any of the three types of music/noise. The particular piece of music used in the study was a section of Music to Calm Your Canine  Companion, music included in the book Through a Dog’s Ear. Combining the music with low lighting seems to really calm the dogs. . Ah, a perfect opportunity to let Tootsie figure it out on her own. I do wonder if the masking effect of music would keep them even calmer, but as it would irritate me and thus increase the overall stress levels in the house it would probably be counter productive …. I don’t think that there is any question that certain types of sounds are inherently relaxing to most mammals (long slow notes) and others not, but exactly how that sound is presented has a very different effect on different individuals. It might take a while, but it could be worth the effort! These are frequencies which occur naturally on instruments (the pitches vary from instrument to instrument), and they have an unusually pure, open sound, and give off lots of vibrations. My boss one day told me I should sing to nervous dogs. Soothing music like that would be nice sometimes. When my daughter began learning piano this same cat would jump up beside her and bite at her hands to make her stop. Lauren Rearick Updated: Dec. 03, 2019. She was very,very skittish and it took a couple of weeks of feeding at a distance and closing the distance until she was comfortable enough to adopt us. In another study, Wells found no observable changes in behavior in shelter dogs listening to human speech, “pop music” or no music, but increases in resting postures and decreased barking to “classical music,” while heavy metal music elicited increased barking and rising to a stand (2000, 2002, Applied Animal Behavior Science). And it was played pretty consistently at night when the pups were getting used to being crated. All of my previous animals (dogs and cats) have always left the room when I started practicing, so, the latter is likely (though the former might also be a factor). All this makes me wonder how much it is the vibrations that matter rather than the actual tone. My singing to the dog (off-key though it is) also seems to soothe him. We always leave the radio on when we go out and we are always playing different types of music. I think the music had an effect on him, but I’ll need to try it more to be sure. She felt confident that the results were robust, in that they made thousands of observations and the results were consistent. Oh sure, he’ll react to fireworks and thunder but his reaction is no more than a normal alert to a loud sound, although he’ll get mildly anxious if the fireworks or thunder persist. He probably had never been in a car before & after 4 yrs with me, still is intially thrilled to be going with me, but after 10 minutes he’s over it- head hanging down, not always vomiting, but looks queasy, etc. I used the guitar strumming sound and piano sound for hours while my dogs were crated away from a hectic holiday party. Emotionally? We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. I have a dream of owning a place with a few acres, where stressed shelter dogs can come to relax and get help with their behavioral challenges, and one of the things I plan for them is that they’ll have the option to have individual music specially chosen for them, or be part of the, ‘communal soothe’. Kogan refers to “classical music” as resulting in more frequent observations of dog sleeping, but as Dr. Snowdon reminded me, “classical music”  includes a broad range of pieces, from soothing selections like “Moonlight Sonata” (one of the pieces played to the dogs in Kogan’s study) to the 1812 Overture, which one would hardly describe as “soothing,” at least not to humans. I’m going to have to bring some CDs along next time and see if type of music matters. Note that my dog is not the anxious type. Jeni Grant BA, CPDT-KA. Initially car rides were very traumatic for Finna. Sandy is excitable outside and on outings- she MUST be made to lie down in the car, or she will bark and bounce around being annoying. I know Satie intended it to be what he called, ‘musical wallpaper’. And it doesn’t seem to matter whether I’m playing a piece I know well or one that I’m just learning. Some of the writers have mentioned a possible fundamental difference of effect between low and high sounds, and I DO think there is at least that possibility. \"People assume that if they like Mozart, their dog will like Mozart. When he was first adopted, Otis was not a good eater (to put it mildly). I definitely agree that the devil is in the details in terms of defining ‘calming’ music. Never thought much about music and dogs, we do not play music very often, certainly not as ‘background’. I live in a quiet rural courtyard development of around 15 houses, and my dogs do tend to bark at the comings and goings of my neighbours, but for the most part they are walking, playing, eating or dozing. I was also thinking of suggesting to the humane society I volunteer at that we play it in the main kennel for the dogs. Otis has always been extremely relaxed and quiet in the car-he used to be asleep within five minutes, every time-now he stays awake, but spends most of our trips gazing calmly out the windows. For years he had to be locked away while she practiced. He is giving this CD away for the cost of shipping. Still, it’s nice to have an ‘off-switch’ trigger to go to, something that I know is soothing and comforting to him. Kathy – I hope that in time the sadness will ease, and the album will resonate with the happiness he brought you rather than the grief of losing him. Shipping | My dogs seemed to settle nicely the afternoon that I put on TADE, but I can’t separate out the fact that I had also settled myself on the bed and let them get up there with me…. I ended up just using the 2nd and 3rd cds which I assume were recorded later using higher quality. Of course, not all dogs are made the same and neither are dog kennels. My one year old dog got car sick as a puppy and now has anxiety and drools in the car. Interesting information. The provision of a separate sleeping area from the run gives flexibility for the dog, and a larger kennel will allow more choice of places to rest, play or explore. I think it was the clarinet which affected him the most. I am a fan and so do play some very heavy albums sometimes. I was mortified. Now, I confess, I’m not very good at either but I don’t think I’m all that bad. I’m a professional classical musician, and at home I use music purposefully, to inspire different states in myself. The main thing I have observed is that my dogs do seem to dislike heavy metal. I think an interesting test would be to get “normal” recordings of the pieces used in Through A Dog’s Ear, and study the effect the normal recordings have vs. the modified versions. From my experience the CD is effective which also leaves me confused? I attributed this to the constant upbeat tempo of both the music and the DJs on that station and soon eliminated it from their routine as they were really “bad” puppies when I got home on those days. I regularly play the classical music NPR station while my dog is at home and I’m away at work. I managed to film it last summer, when Shad was very lazy http://youtu.be/uwZj1U__0kw at other times he’ll stop as soon as I get a camera out…. Afterwards I put on ‘dogs ear’ and let it play through the session. Dogs do respond to music by Cool dogs in the news, i “. Cookies on your web browser in order to continue used to leave on the first he. 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