Clive Wynne: ...how and why dogs love us

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🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We’re excited to talk with our guest on this episode, canine behaviorist Clive Wynne who explores the incredible relationship between people and dogs in his book, "Dog is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You".

His website is https://www.clivewynne.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. We're thrilled to talk with our guest on this episode, K-9 behaviorist Clive Wynn, who explores the incredible relationship between people and dogs in his new book, Dog is Love, Why and How Your Dog Loves You.
0:28.8	Clive, thank you so much for joining us.
0:31.1	Well, thank you so much for inviting me. It's a thrill to be with you this afternoon.
0:34.6	Tell us about your background and why you wrote the book. I'm a psychology
0:39.4	professor. I'm one of those rare psychology professors who's interested not so much in the human
0:44.3	mind but in the minds of other species. And for a long time, I studied the kinds of animals
0:49.7	that people like me typically study, which is like rats and pigeons, small animals that fit easily in a
0:55.2	laboratory. But there came a point where I wanted something more than that. I wanted to break
0:59.7	out of my little laboratory life, and I wanted to understand the mind of an animal that's so
1:04.3	crucial to so many people's lives, and to really get at the puzzle as to how did this animal get
1:10.1	to be so important to so many of us?
1:12.7	And so, I don't know, 15 years ago or so now, I quit the pigeons.
1:18.9	I closed down the lab and I started studying the behavior of the animals that rested our feet,
1:24.9	of the beautiful dogs that we share our lives with. So that's my
1:28.7	sort of history in a nutshell. What did you think originally about dogs in their capacity to love?
1:35.1	So when I started studying dogs, nobody talked about love. You know, we're a little, we're a little
1:40.2	scared of words like love for scientists, behavioral scientists. You know, how do you measure
1:48.4	love? What do we mean by love? It's a, it's, it's part of everyday language. It's not part of
1:53.0	scientific language. So I never thought about it at all at first. At first, I never thought about it.
1:58.1	When I started studying dog behavior and how dogs came to be so successful in human lives,
2:03.8	people were saying that dogs had a special kind of intelligence,
2:06.8	that it was their smear that gave them this skill that was the secret of their success in human lives.
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