Is someone chopping onions in here?
No, it might just be that you got back together with your dog after being away.
“We also made the discovery of oxytocin as a possible mechanism underlying it.”
Oxytocin is known as the “love hormone.”
In humans, it’sconnected to bonding activities, like hugging.
Additional work found that adding oxytocin to a dog’s eyes increased tear volume.
“These results suggest that emotion-elicited tears can facilitate human-dog emotional connections,” the study said.
The research leads to some questions.
Do dogs also get teary in response to negative emotions?
Do they get teary eyes when they meet up with canine friends?
Those are subjects for future studies.
