But can a dog get a mid-life crisis?
BOILER-PIPE: The study , published in the Journal of Research in Personality, found that dogs’ personality change, much like humans. “When humans go through big changes in life, their personality traits can change,” the lead author, professor William Chopik, said in a university release. “We found that this also happens with dogs ― and to a surprisingly large degree.
The dogs included 50 breeds and ranged in age from a few weeks to 15 years old. “We found correlations in three main areas: age and personality, in human-to-dog personality similarities and in the influence a dog’s personality has on the quality of its relationship with its owner,” Chopik said. “Older dogs are much harder to train; we found that the ‘sweet spot’ for teaching a dog obedience is around the age of 6, when it outgrows its excitable puppy stage but before it’s too set in its ways.
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