2. Dog Sleep: I want to keep a healthy sleep vs activity percentage.
What is the healthy ratio? Are you a veterinarian?
What is the healthy ratio? Are you a veterinarian?
1. Detecting an abrupt change in sleep patterns in humans is useful.
2. Dogs are not humans.
Ergo: Detecting an abrupt change in sleep patters in dogs is useful.
Anthropomorphizing dogs is terrible. It is certainly one of the biggest causes for behavior problems in dogs.
Maybe it is because I have only ever had dogs that were bred for protection but I do not want to think about what my dogs sleep patterns are/were. Does whistle monitor for sounds so that I can disregard the change in sleeping pattern due to a siren? Foot traffic on the sidewalk? Thunder?
Also, just because X might be optimal for a pet doesn't mean that you have to do it. There's always something more you can do for your pet, but perfection is never possible.
And also, your incredible examples of confounding variables are not insurmountable, since sleeping patterns are successfully measured in humans even in suboptimal scenarios. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good!
Do you wake up when there's an ambulance passing by while you're sleeping?
What if you change your statements to:
1) Detecting an abrupt change in sleep patterns in mammals is useful. 2) Dogs are mammals.
Therefore, detecting an abrupt change in sleep patterns in dogs is useful.
No I do not. This is why dogs have been used as sentries for thousands of years.
Just as humans, dogs go through sleep phases and even though humans have longer sleep phases; dogs have a REM phase. Once dogs get to the REM phase they're in a deep stage of sleep and the sound of an ambulance or foot traffic will not wake them up as easily as you think.
I've seen it hundreds of times throughout different breeds of dogs. I used to work part time for a vet when I was a teenager.
1. Compare it to other similar dogs.
2. Show the stats to the veterinarian to get more input.
Using #1 and #2 should be sufficient.