Dogs Trust's Canine Behaviour & Research Teams 💛

Check out our new Linktree (link in bio) for an overview of our research projects, our year in review, latest papers and more! 💡🔗🌳linktr.ee/DTscholars #DogResearch #DogScience

📢We're excited to share that we have launched a new Instagram account! We'll be fetching plenty of research-backed insights on all things dog, so come along and join us! 🐶 Follow us 👉 instagram.com/dogstrust_rese… (handle dogstrust_research)

Are you a dog lover living in Wales? We'd love to hear what you think of our Manifesto 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 With the Welsh elections on the horizon in May, this is a pivotal moment for dog welfare.

It's #InternationalThankYouDay , so we wanted to re-share this adorable video of some of our centre dogs saying thank you and what they're grateful for. Let us know in the comments what you think your pooches would say thank you for💛

Feeling the cold? 🥶 Here's some advice on how to keep your dog safe, warm and active on wintery days 💛

⭐ 🐾 This year our Generation Pup study hit a huge milestone, recruited its 10,000th puppy! This pioneering study explores how early life experiences shape dog's health, behaviour, and overall well-being 🐶 2/2

⭐ Check out what's behind Day 10 of our #ChristmasCountdown below... 🎁 1/2🧵

🌟 This year four members of our team presented at the EARL Tech Conference (Enterprise Applications of the R Language) in Brighton, talking all things #RStats #Python and #DataScience 🤩 Thanks for having us @earlconf 💛 #WomenInStem 2/2

⭐ Check out what's behind Day 4 of our #Advent below... 🎁 1/2🧵

🎁 On Day 1 of #Advent we're celebrating the people who make up our wonderful Research team 💛 From data scientists to impact evaluators, social and behavioural scientists, our team work hard all year to improve dog welfare through robust evidence 🐾 2/2 🧵#AnimalWelfare

⭐ As the year draws to a close and we count down to Christmas we're taking a look back at 2025, celebrating the work of our Research team! ⭐ 🎄Check out what's behind Day 1 of our #Advent below... 🎁 1/2🧵

Introducing... Your new favourite Christmas TV Ad 📺! We like to think, if dogs could speak... they’d say "thank you for my happy place" this Christmas 🎄💛. ➡️ bit.ly/3X4manV #HappyPlace

🐾 We’re so proud to welcome the final member of our Generation Pup family: River - our 10,000th pup! 💛 River is a curious, brave and friendly English Springer Spaniel who loves his big sister and can’t resist taking his toys out of the box! #10KDogs #DogsTrust #DogWelfare 2/2

🐾 From one curious pup… to 10,000 incredible dogs 🐶 Together, we've built something extraordinary and are changing the future of dog welfare - one questionnaire, one update, one family at a time #GenerationPup 1/2

🐾 Check out the #OpenAccess paper in full here 👉 #d1e219" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 5/5 #AnimalWelfare

🐾 Support was more likely to be declined at the 2-week timepoint 📆, and when certain combinations or behaviour were reported – notably, when potentially aggressive behaviours or separation-related anxiety reported together 4/5

Hot off the press! 📢 Our latest study, investigating themes and factors associated with recent dog adopters declining free over-the-phone support ☎️ for dog behaviours of concern, has been published in Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 👇🧵1/5

🐾 Check out the #OpenAccess paper in full here 👉#d1e219" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 4/4 #AnimalWelfare

🐾 Of the 2/3 that did not want a call back, themes in reasoning included “Awareness but no action yet”, “Managing behaviour”, “Feels support not needed”, and “Belief of cause” 3/4