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In Review--classical music for dogs

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Through a Dog's Ear CD Music to Calm Your Canine Companion Joshua Leeds & Lisa Spector Sounds True Through a Dog's Ear (book) Joshua Leeds & Susan Wagner, DVM, MS Sounds True Two loves have remained constant throughout my life thus far--the love of animals and music. My human instincts and experiences have proven to me that animals enjoy music as much as humans. Certainly animals do not hold intellectual conversations about rhythmic structure and their understanding of music probably does not bode well in an academic setting. However, recent research has proven that animals' moods are affected by music and just like humans, sound healing concepts such as entrainment and resonance are just as true for dogs as they are for humans. According to authors Joshua Leeds (sound healer and researcher), and Susan Wagner (doctor of veterinarian medicine), in their book, Through A Dog's Ear , dogs have refined taste in music. They prefer European classical com