http://www.livescience.com/4791-pets-enjoy-healing-power-music.html
For any pet owners out there! I found this unique article particularly interesting, as I have only really been exposed to the healing powers of music on human beings rather than animals.
This is awesome. The fact that music is so powerful that it helps virtually any species as much as it does to us is amazing. Now I'll go a little off track; sometimes I've been practicing trombone at home and my dog is just sitting next to me and he decides to start howling alongside me as I play, I don't if he's trying to sing with me or something but it's pretty adorable.
ReplyDeleteWhoa, that is really cool. I guess it makes sense that the power of music could transfer to animals but I had never thought about it. I think it's really cool how diverse music can be. Looking back, my dog did always calm down when we listened to classical music, which is saying a lot because he was kind of crazy.
ReplyDeleteThis is really interesting. I have always wondered what my dog was thinking whenever I am playing any instrument at home. Whenever I bring my didgeridoo out, he will sometimes come over and sit down by me and occasionally sniff the instrument. I wonder if that's because the different animal sounds over the drone resonate well with him. This is really out there, but I wonder if there will ever be a group of musicians that tour around, playing for animals.
ReplyDeleteI always kinda thought animals felt music in a similar way we do because anytime I used to practice my dog would react in different way ie she would run around me or she would lay down and listen or she would bark depending on what I was playing.
ReplyDeleteThis was really cool. When I practiced at home my dog would always howl and I would wonder what he was thinking. I like Tyler's idea of a group that travels around playing for animals, I think that would be very 21CM.
ReplyDeleteThis was really cool. When I practiced at home my dog would always howl and I would wonder what he was thinking. I like Tyler's idea of a group that travels around playing for animals, I think that would be very 21CM.
ReplyDeleteThis article made me wonder how music could be applied in an animal shelter. Many animals that come in are either scared and wont trust or are aggressive and hard to calm down. If music therapy for dogs and cats was more of a thing, maybe it would help more to find good homes
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