Time to walk...

Diary entry, 20.05.2011, Marion Heszle

Pictures of the day (3 images)   

The beautiful weather does not only invit many visitors to see our animals and to explore the grounds of the game park, but to maintan the motivation for my masterthesis! For this, as I mentioned already before in some diaries, I film dogs on a leashwalk to investigate whether the social bond and the intensity of contact between dogs and human influence the cooperation between the two of them. Therefore the owner of the dog, a familiar person and a strange person do the walks with the dogs.

After letting the cold days behind, the walks make headway and each of them is very interesting to film. Each of the dogs makes sure that no boredom will rise: Some of them love walking cosily and watching their new environment thoroughly, others fell in live with the inhabitants of the game park and some of them walked really carefully, really close to their owners.
Hereby, I want to thank every dog owner and their friends, who were part of my project and without whom my project wouldn’t be possible! Thank you!