Reflection
During this project, we learned about how different animals are domesticated, and how animals are either born into it or learn through teachings. We started from the beginning working on our projects, we came up with a question that we thought would be interesting to further our knowledge on, we started with writing how we were planning on observing or researching our question. We the used google and google scholar to research our question and see (in my case) which animals would be easier or harder to train. In this project, we also learned about genetics. We learned how they differ from animal types and how they are passed down to offspring. This project was pretty student led. We decided what questions we wanted to do and how we would proceed to experiment them.
For this project, my question was: Are there differences between trainability between different dog breeds? Throughout researching for this question, I learned that it would probably take much longer than the time we had to train multiple dogs. So about half way through the project, I decided to change questions and work with a partner. Our new question was: How do labs interact with different dog breeds? How do their emotions change? This was much easier to observe. We “borrowed” one of our friends yellow labs and observed him playing with 5 different breeds of dogs. We tested the labrador with another lab, a golden doodle, a german shorthaired pointer, a golden retriever and a bulldog. We then ranked their aggression on a scale from 1-5, 1 being friendly and playful, 2 being less friendly, 3 being growling, 4 being snapping, and 5 being biting. After our experiment we found out that our prediction was correct, the lab was more aggressive around the bulldog and less aggressive around bigger dogs. We think that this was true because when a dog is around another dog that is of similar size or same breed they are more likely to get along; if the dog is smaller, the bigger dog might believe that they are more dominant and that leads to higher aggression. Also we found that none of the dogs we tested, made the lab go up to a 4 (snapping stage) or a 5 (biting stage).
For this project, my question was: Are there differences between trainability between different dog breeds? Throughout researching for this question, I learned that it would probably take much longer than the time we had to train multiple dogs. So about half way through the project, I decided to change questions and work with a partner. Our new question was: How do labs interact with different dog breeds? How do their emotions change? This was much easier to observe. We “borrowed” one of our friends yellow labs and observed him playing with 5 different breeds of dogs. We tested the labrador with another lab, a golden doodle, a german shorthaired pointer, a golden retriever and a bulldog. We then ranked their aggression on a scale from 1-5, 1 being friendly and playful, 2 being less friendly, 3 being growling, 4 being snapping, and 5 being biting. After our experiment we found out that our prediction was correct, the lab was more aggressive around the bulldog and less aggressive around bigger dogs. We think that this was true because when a dog is around another dog that is of similar size or same breed they are more likely to get along; if the dog is smaller, the bigger dog might believe that they are more dominant and that leads to higher aggression. Also we found that none of the dogs we tested, made the lab go up to a 4 (snapping stage) or a 5 (biting stage).
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