Parenting-Furkids
Non Species Specific Furkid Topics => Reaching One Furkid Parent At A Time... => Alternative Healing => Topic started by: DeeDee on April 24, 2017, 11:29:25 AM
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Not exactly Alternative Healing, but Alternative Knowledge:
Apparently, researchers have been hard at work using infrared thermography (IRT) to determine how dogs are feeling in certain situations. How cool is that?
Thermography is a non-invasive technique that allows for the visualization of temperature changes in the body, affording researchers the ability to evaluate physiological changes, and perhaps emotional states, in a wide variety of animals (including humans). Julie Hecht, writing for Scientific American, describes it this way:
“When you are frightened, blood rushes away from your extremities to get your muscles ready to go, which means your extremities get cooler as your core gets warmer. Infrared thermography, which captures changes to body surface temperature, is going to pick this up.
The tip of a scared person’s nose gets cooler (more blue) under an infrared camera, and studies find that when scared or distressed, rat paws and tails appear cooler, as do the outer parts of sheep and rabbit ears.”1
More at: http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2017/04/24/thermography-in-veterinary-medicine.aspx
Definitely a cool tool that sort of lets the pet "talk" about how they feel.