I love how are Producer kate opened this story up with as if anna
meaning myself needed another reason to be obsessed with dogs.
Japanese.
Researchers have discovered that our furry friends actually get
teary eyed when they're reunited with their owners.
So this research paper is incredible.
I love it.
It was published in a peer reviewed journal known as Current Biology.
And here's what we know about the tear production of dogs when it comes to being
reunited with their owners.
The team said they conducted the Shermer Test, which involves placing
a paper filter on a dog's lower eyelid to collect moisture on 18 dogs
Who were reunited with their owners after being separated for 5-7 hours.
So they said,
the dogs secreted significantly larger tear volumes in the first five
minutes of meeting their owners again compared to when they were alone.
So the researchers also ended up running another experiment in which 20 dogs met
a human that they were not familiar with at all.
And this time the dogs did not produce more tears than normal.
And so they kind of controlled for that issue,
which of course is important in the methodology.
And so the team hypothesized why this happens.
And I love this.
So the team hypothesized that oxytocin, the hormone that helps with bonding and
feelings of love, is related to a dog's tear production.
In a third experiment,
the researchers administered oxytocin in the eyes of 22 dogs.
The researchers said the dogs began to produce more tears when this happened,
but the increase was not observed when they dropped the non oxytocin solution
into the dog's eyes.
So understand that your dogs genuinely love you and there's a physical
reaction of love when they see you when they're reunited with you.
And that's why dogs and especially charlie Kasasbeh's, my dog are the best.
Yeah, okay.
I'm gonna be a huge downer here.
Course.
So look guys, we, we bred wolves into becoming dogs and then we kept breeding
and breeding them until we got exactly what we wanted and what do humans want?
We want unconditional love.
And and one of the things that humans respond to is tears because our babies
have tears and that's a sign of hey, come give me love care and attention.
So dogs that wound up having tears in their eyes when they see their
owner got more love and attention.
And so, they kept advancing and advancing until now all the dogs are bred and
exactly not all, but almost all in the exact way that humans want,
We want, for them to look teary eyed and be and love us unconditionally.
And, and that's what we got.
Yeah, I will say that's the thing,
the unconditional love I would argue is what really creates
that special bond between humans and their dogs, right?
Because even if you're going through a tough time, even if you feel isolated and
lonely having that companionship and that unconditional love really helps obviously.
And I wanted to get into what else the research team was suggesting here because
they suggested that the teary eyes might actually help dogs forge better bonds
with their owners like wagging their tails or licking their owners face.
Like isn't it kind of incredible how they they had already been demonstrating
different body language and different signals to indicate that they love you,
that they miss you, that that that they're excited that you're coming home and
I love that, it's like The best thing in the world, it makes you feel really good.
The researchers conducted another test by the way with 74 human participants
who were each shown 10 photos of five dogs, some of which had moist eyes.
Let's also just acknowledge that the word moist is very uncomfortable, but
the participants were asked how much they wanted to care for
each dog On a scale of 1-5 and the test results showed that dogs with tears welled
up in their eyes had 10-15% more people saying they wanted to care for
them because yeah, it's signals to our brain when we see teary eyes like,
let me let me care for this person or in this case this dog, I totally get that.
Yeah, I'm such a bah humbug about this.
So I read a story about how the british royalty bred corgis,
I don't even know if that's exactly the right way to pronounce it.
I'm not a dog person, as you can tell by the way.
Don't get me wrong, I love dogs.
Okay. No, I'm not a dog expert.
But when I'm in the room with the dog, you know, some of my best friends are dogs,
some of my best friends, they cry when they see me, even,
although I'm not their owner, okay.
But anyways, how they bred the corky's was that they just took small
dogs out of the litter and bred them with other small dogs.
And the larger dogs are discarded.
Right? I don't know how they discarded them.
I don't know that they murdered them or anything like that, but they were just
like they're not interested in them and they got smaller and smaller and smaller
dogs, that's how we influence the genetics of dogs of all in that particular species.
So think about all the dogs that didn't have teary eyes when they met their
owners discarded, gone, gone until we got exactly the dogs that we wanted.
It actually almost sounds like the Republican Party when trump is
doing with them.
Don't dare take this story.
God, why would you do that terrible?
I reject it.
Okay.
I love dogs. I love dogs, but but
because we made them so I have to love them, they are designed for us