Generation Pup

[Beanwood]

This is a very interesting, prospective study on dogs. These will be followed up throughout their lives.

What is Generation Pup?
‘Generation Pup’ is a unique type of research project – known as a cohort study – where lots of individual dogs are followed over their lifetime. This has some big advantages over other approaches, as it enables us to investigate whether events or environments early in life influence the development of conditions as dogs get older.
Dogs play an important role in our families, and have an irreplaceable place in our lives and hearts. It is devastating when they are injured, suffer from disease or have behaviour problems which impact on their wellbeing. Research is essential to better understand how and why these problems develop, so we can prevent and treat them.


FAQ FOR OWNERS


For updates on the project click HERE

 

[Selina27]

That'll be interesting . What fascinating that would be.

 

[kateincornwall]

Ooo, I like the sound of this , very interesting indeed x

 

[Shaz82]

This is a great idea, I would like to be involved but need a pup so . . .

 

[Emily]

This is a great idea, I would like to be involved but need a pup so . . .

Do it!!

 

[Stacia]

I have been doing this with Labradors, a study in Edinburgh University (I think can't really remember which university!) was asked to join it when Rourke was a puppy.

 

[Beanwood]

The updates are really interesting for example:






The results - from this cohort (more details on the update link) 31% of puppies owners intend to use reward based training? This surprises me as if you have enrolled in such a study I would have thought you would have had more of a vested interest in forward thinking approaches. It doesn't surprise me that in the study, if you already worked with dogs, you were more than three times likely to adopt a reward based training technique. Just a couple of snippets, but already some useful information emerging.

 

[Stacia]

I have been doing this with Labradors, a study in Edinburgh University (I think can't really remember which university!) was asked to join it when Rourke was a puppy.

I misread @Beanwood's post, the Labrador one is for Labrador Health.

 

[Joy]

Very interesting @Beanwood . I wonder how the question about training methods was phrased and if this made a difference to responses? I wonder if some people (especially if this is their first puppy) actually don't think about training at all - or rather see 'training' as meaning preparing for competition. Rather embarrassingly I can actually remember saying to my sister (who owned working gundogs) that I wasn't going to bother to train my last dog (this was back in '98) - but of course I did teach him to come when called, walk nicely on lead and stay when told to. But I didn't see this as 'training' - just normal upbringing.