Working dogs take a day to adjust to the change in routine caused by Daylight Savings Time, whereas pet dogs and their owners ...
For the sled dogs, the time change was a sudden shift in a strict daily routine. Prior to the clocks going back, handlers ...
Daylight saving time is associated with health problems in humans. A new study looks at the impact on huskies and malamutes — ...
whereas pet dogs and their owners seem to be unaffected, according to a study publishing January 29, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Lavania Nagendran, Ming Fei Li and colleagues at ...
pet dogs of the same breeds as the working dogs showed no measurable effect - apparently resting peacefully during their extra hour in bed. Ming Fei Li The research team studied sled dogs at ...
The study, published in the journal PLOS One, is the first to investigate the impact of Daylight Saving Time (DST) on domestic dogs’ activity. Co-author Ming Fei Li, a doctoral student at the ...
or my dog was scratching at the door, even though we were allowed to sleep in an extra hour,’” researcher Ming Fei Li said in an interview. Hence, Li said, she was surprised at some of the ...
The center’s dog handler, Su Kuan-ming (蘇冠銘), said that handlers break search-and-rescue skills and other duties down into small tasks for rescue dogs to cultivate in daily life. For example, they ...