Puppy Aptitude Testing | Check This Out!
Watch as these puppies play a cognitive game at the Duke Canine Cognition Center with Kara Moore, an NC State Veterinary Medicine research assistant, and Duke undergraduate student Laura Navarrete. This game is to test how much self-control the puppies have.
The puppies are part of a long-term study funded by the National Institutes of Health to assess the effects that different rearing strategies have on the behavior and cognitive development of assistance dogs. The goal of the project is to increase the supply of assistance dogs and to see more dogs graduate and serve more people.
The testing or cognitive games might be used in the future as early identifiers of puppies that are most likely to graduate as assistance dogs. These puppies were part of the 2020 Duke Puppy Kindergarten class.
Assistance dogs are trained to help children and adults with a range of physical and developmental disabilities. The dogs will be trained to perform a variety of tasks like opening doors, turning on lights, picking up objects that are dropped and out of reach, and alerting their human partners to important sounds.
Canine Companions for Independence®, the leading assistance dog non-profit in the U.S., provides the 10-week old puppies each semester for the research. More than a hundred Duke undergraduates helped raise and study the puppies from 10-20 weeks of age.
To learn more about the Canine Cognition Center, visit: https://evolutionaryanthropology.duke...
To learn more about Canine Companions for Independence®, visit www.cci.org
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