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Why dogs can teach humans about healthier ageing‘In recent years, the dog has grown to be one of the most important animals for researchers who aim to understand the biological background of complex traits,’ said Dr Enikő Kubinyi, an ethologist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.
They found that dogs personalities do change as they grow older
The dynamics of change were observed to be specific for each personality trait
Just like people, dogs personalities change as they age, a new European study suggests. Even though dog personality is a highly popular topic in the literature, there are still gaps about the long-term stability, as well as about the dynamics of personality development, said study first author Borbála Turcsán of the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. That is, if personality rankings remain consistent over several years, at what age personality changes most prominently occur, and how much dogs actually change throughout their life, she said in a university news release.