{"id":7783,"date":"2020-03-04T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:40:54","slug":"can-you-feel-the-love-the-biology-of-the-human-animal-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/can-you-feel-the-love-the-biology-of-the-human-animal-bond.php","title":{"rendered":"Can You Feel the Love: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/artworks-eqqXuGfQyZVzMmgl-sn3nsA-t500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Episode 9: Can you feel the Love: The biology of the Human-Animal Bond with Guest Kerri Rodriguez\" class=\"wp-image-7784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/artworks-eqqXuGfQyZVzMmgl-sn3nsA-t500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/artworks-eqqXuGfQyZVzMmgl-sn3nsA-t500x500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/artworks-eqqXuGfQyZVzMmgl-sn3nsA-t500x500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/artworks-eqqXuGfQyZVzMmgl-sn3nsA-t500x500-235x235.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Episode 9: Can you feel the Love: The biology of the Human-Animal Bond with Guest Kerri Rodriguez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve all heard the saying \u201cdog is a man\u2019s best friend\u201d but what does science say about our bond with animals? Studies show that our pets and service animals can increase connection between humans by improving mental, social and emotional functioning. In this episode, Kerri Rodriguez, a Ph.D. candidate at the Purdue University Center for Human-Animal Bond, discusses the health benefits of companion animals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to the podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-883668183\/episode-9-can-you-feel-the-love-the-biology-of-the-human-animal-bond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"SoundCloud (opens in a new tab)\">SoundCloud<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard the saying \u201cdog is a man\u2019s best friend\u201d but what does science say about our bond with animals? Studies show that our pets and service animals can increase connection between humans by improving mental, social and emotional functioning. In this episode, Kerri Rodriguez, a Ph.D. candidate at the Purdue University Center for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,817,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers","category-human-animal-bond","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34378,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/34378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}