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Finding the Right Tune for Pets


Music Calms the Animal Soul by Julie Peterson


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ometimes it takes a little dog to bring about a big truth, as Cheryl Christine, a professional musician


and composer in Ridgeland, South Caro- lina, learned. “I was playing the piano at a party and the owners had a hyper little dog. Aſter a while, I started playing some of the music from my CD and the dog stopped, turned around and came up to me, and just sat there and listened. Te owners were shocked.” Te mood of dogs and cats can be


improved by hearing the right kind of tunes, but it’s important to choose their music wisely, because they are more highly attuned to sensory cues than humans.


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Te nicest notes for animals have been well studied, especially dogs. Colorado


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State University researchers found that auditory stimulation with music can be helpful or detrimental. Results of a study in the Journal of Veterinary Behavior suggest that dogs sleep more and bark less when they listen to classical music; and they shake more and rise to their feet when exposed to heavy metal music, pos- sibly from nervousness. Patricia McConnell, Ph.D., a zoolo-


gist and certified applied animal behav- iorist in Wisconsin, wrote her disserta- tion on the effect of different types of sounds upon working domestic animals. “What is important is not whether the music is ‘classical’ or ‘heavy metal’, but whether it includes a set of acoustic features that appear to be universally associated with soothing or stimulating internal states,” states McConnell in her blog, TeOtherEndOfTeLeash.com.


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