Every time the date of a new Change of timeeither in March or October, it is quite common to hear that there are many people who feel very badly said change. And that it costs several days to get used to, either because of energy, light or simply because the human body likes routines.
Well, it seems that work dogs, those animals that develop different tasks (together with police, firefighters, etc.) and, therefore, also have established schedules and routines, also find it difficult to get used to the change of time. They don’t carry it well. That they like as little as their human partners.
It is one of the theses that follows from the study by Lavania Nagendran, Ming Fei Li and several professors from the University of Toronto, Canada. A scientific essay That, yes, it establishes a big difference between the dogs that work and the domestic dogs that we have at home without any assigned task. And it seems that our pets, those who do not work, barely notice when we advance or delay the clock for an hour.
A pioneering study
Previous investigations had already warned that changing the schedule can alter sleep and generate discomfort that can last several days. But that conclusion had always been reached after analyzing human reactions, not animals. And it seems that, at least in “professional” dogs that follow schedules and tasks, the conclusion can be similar.
And how was it investigated? Well Analyzing 25 sled dogs comparing their reactions with those of 29 domestic dogs. All specimens live in Canada, with the big difference of the daily activity of each other. Making it, of course, during the weeks before an hour change.
After changing the time, to the dogs that had to drag the sleds, as every day, it cost them more than the account to do it during the first hour, at dawn. Those minutes of laziness were not detected in the dogs that do not work and that were part of the same study.
Another of the conclusions of the study, as a recommendation, has been important to make changes gradually to better adapt to the “new life.” And not abruptly. Something that all the dogs studied are thanked … and surely more than one human.
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