Wouldn’t it be nice… to know whether music can calm animals? And why dogs are so fond of reggae? 🎵🐾 emily_cope1 investigates the rise of personalised playlists for four-legged friends
“Dogs and cats can benefit from music for different reasons,” says Nathalie Ingham, canine behaviour and training manager at Battersea.
The SPCA’s head of research, Gilly Mendes Ferreira, speculates that this is because “those genres have a rhythm that is similar to the dogs’ own heart rate. When a puppy is feeling stressed, it will snuggle into its mother and use her heartbeat as relaxation, and this music mimics that rhythm.”
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