Fig 1.
The differential reaction of dogs to human influence following the four different pre-treatments (Social separation, social ignoring; social interaction with a stranger, social interaction with the owner).
Fig 1/a shows the proportion of “bigger” choices during the Baseline and the Human influence trials in the four different pre-treatment groups. Fig 1/b shows “change in bias” scores (difference between baseline and human influence trials) for the same four treatment groups.
Fig 2.
The proportion of former shelter dogs’ “bigger” choices during the baseline and the human influence trials in the two different pre-treatment groups (Social interaction with a stranger, social interaction with the owner).
Fig 3.
The proportion of therapy dogs’ “bigger” choices during the baseline and the human influence trials in the two different pre-treatment groups (Social interaction with a stranger, social interaction with the owner).
Table 1.
Mean±SE (min−max) change in bias scores of the three different populations of dogs for social interaction with the owner vs. stranger prior to the social susceptibility test.
Data from Kis et al. 2022 [10] is included for comparison.