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Music therapy for dogs to: You can watch anxious 50 barking dogs calm in less than two minutes to a Canine Lullaby at www.caninelullabies.com This is happening in shelters around the world. The same therapeutic music in comforting infants and children in hospitals and people suffering with Alzheimer’s in memory care units. Visit my other websites to learn more. www.babygotosleep.com and www.the-comforter.com Playing Canine Lullabies to:

•Stop unwanted barking •Console whimpering puppies •Minimize separation anxiety •Reduce hyperactivity •Minimize fear of thunderstorms •Calm your dog in the car •Comfort your sick or hurt dog

For years, Terry Woodford would roll his eyes when parents wrote him about how their baby’s Heartbeat Lullabies recording was also calming their dog to sleep. He just assumed when the baby stopped crying the dog got a break like everyone else in the family. But in 2004, members of the American Boarding Kennels Association (ABKA) verified that parents were on to something. Over 90 kennels reported that playing Heartbeat Lullabies for anxious dogs reduced separation anxiety, diarrhea, aggression and excessive barking. That same year researchers reported calming aggressive male chimps to sleep by playing the music at the Honolulu Zoo. Woodford knew if he tried to market the baby lullaby CD to calm barking dogs, he would be setting himself up for ridicule and disbelief from skeptics. But when he saw the music calm 50 frightened barking dogs in less than two minutes in a Colorado humane society, he decided to go for it. “It would have been irresponsible not to share the dramatic successes animal care providers were having playing the CD for their upset dogs,” says Woodford. “When we played the Canine Lullabies CD stress levels were way low which makes the dogs a lot easier to adopt.” Says, Susan Friedenburg, Adoption Manager, Colorado Humane Society /SPCA Englewood. Hundreds of humane societies, rescue shelters and animal clinics across America and Great Britain are discovering they can make their dogs more comfortable and more adoptable by playing the Canine Lullabies. Upon request the Canine Lullabies are provided free to shelters, humane societies, and animal clinics to use in their facility. Why it works to comfort dogs and cats

Dogs can track the scent of animals or smell a bomb even with stronger competing odors in the environment. Much like they choose what they want to smell, dogs have the ability to choose what they want to hear. They can focus on a sound and block out and habituate to louder competing sounds. For example, a search dog can be trained to hear a human heartbeat from up to 75 ft. away. Dogs and cats hear 50 times better than we do and hear frequencies up to 50,000 cycles. We hear at best up to 20,000 cycles. What must the world sound like to animals? If animals didn’t have the ability to focus on one sound and habituate or block out the rest, they would be over-stimulated and hyperactive most of the time. Dogs obviously have the ability to tune in what they want to hear and tune out the rest or they would all suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Part of the reason they have that ability may be because their inner ear can filter out or block out background noise and distracting startling sounds. Even though humans are annoyed and disturbed by startling and dissonant sounds, it is not always the loudest or most offensive sound in our environment that can grab our focus and attention. We can develop our hearing to selectively listen to or be alerted by any sound if we feel it is threatening, beneficial or important to us. You quickly learn to duck on a golf course when you hear the word “fore” yelled by someone way off in the distance. The visually impaired can develop their selective listening to the point they can identify a person by the sound and rhythm of their footsteps. Music lovers and musicians can choose to listen to the sound of one instrument playing on a recording. A worker in an extremely noisy factory can focus on Muzac being played softly in the background. Why Heartbeat Lullabies make listeners feel relaxed and safe Pythagoras said music is mathematical relationships of sound through time. Dogs, cats and babies are attracted to the mathematical simplicity of the arrangements, the compassion in the singers’ voices, and the familiar human heartbeat sound. The sounds on the recording offer a safe haven for animals to psychologically or emotionally “flee” to when they are experiencing the fight or flight response. In self defense they can escape their fear or pain by choosing to switch their focus to sounds that are familiar, compassionate, repetitive, and non-threatening. They are attracted to order out of chaos. Why animals calm to the simple sounds on the recordings Dogs, cats, and chimps can use their acute selective listening to escape what is bothering them even better than humans can. Animals don’t relate to or interpret most man made music the same way we do. Most of our music is mathematically too complex and alien sounding. They are attentive and interested in sounds that are simple, predictable, familiar and ordered in a simple structure. Most relaxation and training techniques use the same basic mathematical principles to help animals and humans learn to behave and relax. The following are some of the relaxation / learning principles combined with human sounds that were incorporated in the musical arrangements of simple melodies. For example, the ticking sound of a clock touted for helping calm whimpering puppies has five of these principles. 1. Simplicity 2. Repetition 3. Predictability 4. Consistent tempo 5. Consistent volume 6. basic symmetric structure 7. Human compassion ( in the singer’s voice) 8. Familiarity (human heartbeat)

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