Does Your Dog REALLY Love You?

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🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Clive Wynne, founding director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, draws on studies from his lab and others around the world to explain what biology, neuroscience, and genetics reveal about dogs and love. His new book is called Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:05.0	Maddie Sifai here.
0:06.5	Fun fact about our guest today, Clive Wynn.
0:09.4	He has a little black, labby-looking mutt named Zephos.
0:13.4	Fun fact about me, I have a border-colley-looking mutt named Ellie.
0:17.7	Clive, you like this?
0:18.6	She was named by, when I was doing my PhD,
0:21.4	she was named by my immunology department.
0:23.1	So her full name is Eliza, as for like,
0:25.4	and I'm like, immunosorbid assay.
0:27.8	Oh, that's great.
0:28.6	Well, you know, Zephos' full name is Xenophon,
0:31.5	in honor of the ancient Greek who wrote the first book on dogs in 200 BC.
0:35.7	Do you think they appreciate how clever we are?
0:37.7	No.
0:38.7	No.
0:39.7	No.
0:40.7	That's part of the beauty.
0:42.0	They just want you to acknowledge their love.
0:46.5	Clive directs the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University.
0:51.4	And in a new book, he rounds up studies from his lab and others around the world
0:55.6	to argue that dogs really do love us, which, yeah,
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