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They want to know how often your dog gets outside.
他們想知道你的狗室外活動頻率。
They want to know how much exercise your dog is getting.
有多少體育鍛煉的時間。
They want to know how much social time with other dogs and other humans.
有多少和其他狗和人社交的時間。
They want to talk to you about what sorts of therapies, largely behavior therapies, you've tried with that animal.
他們想了解你為你的狗狗試過多少行為治療方案。
Those are the things that often tend to help the most, especially when combined with psychopharmaceuticals.
這些就是最能 幫助狗狗的方式，特別是跟藥物相結合。
The thing, though, I believe, that helps the most, particularly with social animals,is time with other social animals.
而我相信最能幫助社交性動物的是花時間在其他社交性動物上。
In many ways, I feel like I became a service animal to my own dog, and I have seen parrots do it for people and people do it for parrots and dogs do it for elephants and elephants do it for other elephants.
很多時候，我都覺得我成了為自家狗狗服務的動物。我見過鸚鵡為人類服務，也見過人類為鸚鵡服務，狗狗為大象服務然后大象再為其他大象服務。
I don't know about you; I get a lot of Internet forwards of unlikely animal friendships.
我不知道你，但我在網上受邀轉發很多動物之間不可思議的友誼。
I also think it's a huge part of Facebook, the monkey that adopts the cat or the great dane who adopted the orphaned fawn,or the cow that makes friends with the pig, and had you asked me eight, nine years ago, about these.
我還認為這組成了臉書的很大一部分，猴子收養了貓或是大丹犬收養了失去雙親的鹿寶寶，又或是奶牛跟豬成了朋友，如果你八、九年前問我 這些故事的話。
I would have told you that they were hopelessly sentimental and maybe too anthropomorphic in the wrong way and maybe even staged, and what I can tell you now is that there is actually something to this.
我會告訴你這些太感情用事了，或是用錯誤的方式過于擬人化。甚至是表演出來的但現在我能告訴你，動物之間是真情實感。
This is legit. In fact, some interesting studies have pointed to oxytocin levels, which are a kind of bonding hormone that we release when we're having sex or nursing
這是真的。事實上，有些有趣的研究表明催產素，一個社交產生的荷爾蒙會在我們性交，養育寶寶。
or around someone that we care for extremely, oxytocin levels raising in both humans and dogs who care about each other or who enjoy each other's company,
或是在極其喜愛的人身邊會產生，催產素水平會在彼此關心和愿意陪伴的人和狗身體里上升，不止這些，其他研究還表明催產素。
and beyond that, other studies show that oxytocin raised even in other pairs of animals,so, say, in goats and dogs who were friends and played with each other, their levels spiked afterwards.
在其他組合動物身體里也會上升。所以，山羊和狗狗成為朋友，一起玩耍后它們的催產素水平會達到一次高峰。
I have a friend who really showed me that mental health is in fact a two-way street.
我有個朋友向我展示了精神疾病其實是雙向的。
