Canine companionship is helping some local kids turn around their troubled pasts at the Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center. A program called Teacher's Pet has them train dogs taken in by animal ...

As Kubinyi notes, dogs are increasingly being viewed as children, a shift that is reflected in the rise of terms like “ dog moms ” and “ dog dads ” in popular culture.

The love between dogs and their owners can be compared to parental love. Zofia Zaniewska-Wojtków, a behaviorist and dog trainer, doesn’t compare whom she loves more – her children or her dogs.

Andy Seliverstoff However, sometimes the dogs needed less direction in the front of the camera than the kids. Case in point: Alexandra and her pet dog Zane, a Harlequin Great Dane.

Too often, dogs described as “good with kids” are those who will let kids get in their faces, sit on them, pull their tails or ears, or otherwise abuse them without complaint.

Teach a calm approach Kids often want to pet dogs. Instead of automatically saying yes, have the youngsters ask the dog if it would like to be petted.

Active synchrony for an average of 60.2% of the time. Broken down further, the dogs were moving an average of 73.1% of the time that the children were moving and were stationary an average of 41.2 ...