Look Into My Eyes
Dogs...How ever did they become "man's best friend?" How did that bond ever form between that first wolf and that first human?
If you’ve ever been caught in a staring contest with your dog, science has now shown that doing so helps you bond with your pet and boosts the amount of feel-good hormones in both you and your pup.
A study published yesterday in the journal Science found that the brain responds to “puppy eyes“ by increasing levels of oxytocin, the hormone that is associated with bonding, love, nurturing, and attachment. “Oxytocin can boost social gaze interaction between two very different species,“ says Yale professor Steve Chang.
“Domesticated dogs could hijack our social circuits, and we could hijack theirs.“
Shasta (the Springer Spaniel) is my dog. She's now 13 years old, and I know our time together is limited. She has a tumor growing on her leg that can't be operated on and her liver is starting to fail.
I do my best to stare into those brown eyes for a few minutes every day. My wife took this picture while we were having one of those "moments."
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