Perhaps you've had to put up with a moody, uncooperative teenager. You may well have been one yourself. A new study suggests that dogs go through a similar phase of stubbornness and disobedience when they hit puberty at about eight months old.
你身邊情緒化、叛逆的青少年可能夠你受的，你自己曾經(jīng)可能也是其中一員。一項(xiàng)新的研究顯示，狗狗在8個(gè)月大的時(shí)候會(huì)經(jīng)歷相似的倔強(qiáng)叛逆的階段。

Looking at the behaviour of a total of 378 canines, researchers found that the animals were more obedient and more responsive either side of that eight-month mark – but only when it came to their owners, not to less familiar trainers.
研究人員觀察了378只犬的行為，發(fā)現(xiàn)這些狗狗在8個(gè)月前后都更聽(tīng)話、反應(yīng)更快，但只對(duì)主人這樣，對(duì)不太熟悉的訓(xùn)導(dǎo)員就不會(huì)這樣。

So not only do dogs appear to have a difficult adolescence just like we do, they also share the frustration that we often feel towards our parents or caregivers when we hit our teenage years. That has big implications for long-term canine care and sheltering.
所以狗狗不僅會(huì)像我們一樣有一個(gè)麻煩的青春期，而且也和我們十多歲時(shí)一樣，對(duì)父母或者照顧我們的人很失望。這對(duì)長(zhǎng)期犬類護(hù)理和保護(hù)意義重大。

"This is a very important time in a dog's life," says animal behaviour researcher Lucy Asher, from Newcastle University in the UK. "This is when dogs are often rehomed because they are no longer a cute little puppy and suddenly, their owners find they are more challenging and they can no longer control them or train them."
來(lái)自英國(guó)紐卡斯?fàn)柎髮W(xué)的動(dòng)物行為研究員Lucy Asher說(shuō)：“這是狗狗生命中很重要的時(shí)期，通常都是在這時(shí)給它們找新主人，因?yàn)樗鼈儾辉偈切」丰塘?，主人突然發(fā)現(xiàn)它們很讓人傷腦筋，不好進(jìn)行控制或訓(xùn)練?！?/div>

"But as with human teenage children, owners need to be aware that their dog is going through a phase and it will pass."
“但是就像對(duì)待青春期的小孩一樣，主人需要知道這只是暫時(shí)的，這種情況會(huì)過(guò)去的?！?/div>

In one experiment with 93 Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers and their cross breeds, the pooches at eight months old were found to take longer and be more reluctant to respond to a 'sit' command given by their caregiver than they were when just five months old. The eight-month-olds didn't show the same obstinance when the command was given by a stranger, though.
在對(duì)93只拉布拉多、金毛和它們雜交繁殖出的狗狗進(jìn)行試驗(yàn)時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)，與5個(gè)月大的狗狗相比，8個(gè)月大的狗狗要花更多時(shí)間、也更不愿意對(duì)主人給出的“坐”的指令做出反應(yīng)。但是在陌生人發(fā)生指令時(shí)，8個(gè)月大的狗狗并沒(méi)有表現(xiàn)出相同的固執(zhí)。

The researchers found further evidence of this effect in survey data gathered on 285 Labradors, golden retrievers, German shepherds and their cross breeds. Dog owners and trainers less familiar with the dogs were asked to evaluate the animals' 'trainability' by answering questions on obedience and how quickly commands were responded to.
研究人員從285只拉布拉多、金毛、德國(guó)牧羊犬和它們雜交繁殖出的狗狗身上收集到了調(diào)查數(shù)據(jù)，從中發(fā)現(xiàn)了能進(jìn)一步證明這種反應(yīng)的證據(jù)。他們讓狗主人和對(duì)狗不太熟悉的訓(xùn)導(dǎo)員通過(guò)回答問(wèn)題來(lái)評(píng)價(jià)這些狗狗的“可訓(xùn)練性”，問(wèn)題涉及狗的服從性，以及對(duì)指令的反應(yīng)速度。

Again, the caregivers ranked their dogs as less obedient at eight months old compared with five months old or 12 months old. The trainers reported that obedience increased between the ages of five months and eight months.
他們?cè)俅伟l(fā)現(xiàn)照顧狗的人認(rèn)為，與5個(gè)月或12個(gè)月大的狗狗相比，8個(gè)月大的狗狗服從性更差。訓(xùn)導(dǎo)員報(bào)告說(shuō)在5個(gè)月至8個(gè)月之間，狗的服從性呈上升趨勢(shì)。

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翻譯：菲菲