In add-on to a common love of hamburgers and slothful gay afternoons in the backyard , dog owners can now share their kinship for audiobooks with their furry supporter . As Fast Company reports , Audible has launchedAudible for Dogs , a new service designed to keep canid relaxed while their owners are aside from home .
Some people play music for lonely hound , but harmonise toan hearable press release , a 2015 academic bailiwick revealed that audiobooks work better than tunes to calm strain - out pets . To enquire the phenomenon further , Audible teamed up with Cesar Millan , the dog behaviorist who ’s better known as the " Dog Whisperer . " Their own enquiry — which they conducted with 100 dogs , in partnership with Millan ’s Dog Psychology Center in Santa Clarita , California — found that 76 pct of take part frankfurter owners note that audiobooks help oneself their pets chill out .
Dog owners can fiddle Cesar Millan ’s newGuide to Audiobooks for domestic dog — which is both written and narrated by Millan — for induction role , along with a curated go around selection of dog - focalise audiobook titles include Trevor Noah’sBorn a Crime : narrative from a South African Childhood , performed by Trevor Noah ; Jane Austen’sPride and Prejudice , performed by Rosamund Pike ; and W. Bruce Cameron’sA Dog ’s Purpose , perform by William Dufris . Each claim features a extra video recording introduction by Millan , in which he explain why the book is suited for doggy spike . ( Pro tip : allot to Audible ’s inquiry , dogs prefer narrator of the same grammatical gender as their elemental owners , and rule book make for at normal volume on an in - household hearing machine . )
Do n’t have an hearable subscription , but want to see if your heel succumbs to the supposedly calming magic of audiobooks ? New listeners can listen to one barren Audible for Dogs selection with a 30 - daylight membership trial .
[ h / tFast Company ]
