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Dr. Karolina Westlund

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Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Because otherwise, if you serve it in a bowl, some animals, you know, they inhale it. It takes like 30 seconds and they're done.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Because otherwise, if you serve it in a bowl, some animals, you know, they inhale it. It takes like 30 seconds and they're done.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Because otherwise, if you serve it in a bowl, some animals, you know, they inhale it. It takes like 30 seconds and they're done.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Yeah.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Yeah.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Yeah.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

So sometimes it can be hard to know where your dog is on that scale, especially if it's like a mixed breed of some type. And then you can often actually just look at the conformation of the dog. So those very lean... I'm thinking greyhound now. The lean dog with not much muscle and very pointy snout tends to be the chasers. And the ones with more muscles...

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

So sometimes it can be hard to know where your dog is on that scale, especially if it's like a mixed breed of some type. And then you can often actually just look at the conformation of the dog. So those very lean... I'm thinking greyhound now. The lean dog with not much muscle and very pointy snout tends to be the chasers. And the ones with more muscles...

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

So sometimes it can be hard to know where your dog is on that scale, especially if it's like a mixed breed of some type. And then you can often actually just look at the conformation of the dog. So those very lean... I'm thinking greyhound now. The lean dog with not much muscle and very pointy snout tends to be the chasers. And the ones with more muscles...

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Front muscles and bigger jaws tend to be the ones that rip things apart.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Front muscles and bigger jaws tend to be the ones that rip things apart.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

Front muscles and bigger jaws tend to be the ones that rip things apart.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

space to roam but you have to walk them but they don't need long walks compared to like a little terrier sometimes needs to just go go go go go i mean needs two hours or more of activity i think you need to pay a lot of attention to the type of life that you're going to offer whether it's you know living in an apartment in a busy city or whether it's uh you know you're on a farm somewhere which which breed of dog is going to adapt best to that lifestyle do you think dogs like cities

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

space to roam but you have to walk them but they don't need long walks compared to like a little terrier sometimes needs to just go go go go go i mean needs two hours or more of activity i think you need to pay a lot of attention to the type of life that you're going to offer whether it's you know living in an apartment in a busy city or whether it's uh you know you're on a farm somewhere which which breed of dog is going to adapt best to that lifestyle do you think dogs like cities

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

space to roam but you have to walk them but they don't need long walks compared to like a little terrier sometimes needs to just go go go go go i mean needs two hours or more of activity i think you need to pay a lot of attention to the type of life that you're going to offer whether it's you know living in an apartment in a busy city or whether it's uh you know you're on a farm somewhere which which breed of dog is going to adapt best to that lifestyle do you think dogs like cities

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

I think many dogs get very stressed in cities because of the constant bombardment of sensory information. So there's noise. There's dogs. So if you're out walking on the street, there's constantly meeting strangers. And for many animal species, meeting strangers, A, doesn't happen very often, and B, causes an increase in arousal because it could be, you know, friend or foe.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

I think many dogs get very stressed in cities because of the constant bombardment of sensory information. So there's noise. There's dogs. So if you're out walking on the street, there's constantly meeting strangers. And for many animal species, meeting strangers, A, doesn't happen very often, and B, causes an increase in arousal because it could be, you know, friend or foe.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

I think many dogs get very stressed in cities because of the constant bombardment of sensory information. So there's noise. There's dogs. So if you're out walking on the street, there's constantly meeting strangers. And for many animal species, meeting strangers, A, doesn't happen very often, and B, causes an increase in arousal because it could be, you know, friend or foe.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

It could be someone that you want to fight with. It could be someone you want to have sex with. You need to assess the situation. And I think that dogs are quite unique in that respect in that they have a high tolerance for strangers because many other animal species do not have And I think that we tend to forget that sometimes that we introduce animals to animals that they don't know.

Huberman Lab
What Pets Actually Want & Need | Dr. Karolina Westlund

It could be someone that you want to fight with. It could be someone you want to have sex with. You need to assess the situation. And I think that dogs are quite unique in that respect in that they have a high tolerance for strangers because many other animal species do not have And I think that we tend to forget that sometimes that we introduce animals to animals that they don't know.