{"id":10303,"date":"2023-11-28T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2025-01-14T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:49:43","slug":"top-dog-news-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/top-dog-news-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Dog News of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>Dogs made plenty of news this year. Here are some of the canine-centric stories that caught our attention.<\/p><h4>The World&rsquo;s Oldest-Ever Dog Ever Celebrated his 31st Birthday<\/h4><p>Bobi, the Portuguese dog whose longevity made him famous, turned 31 in 2023. Bobi ate only human food, and Guinness reported that the menu for his party would include &ldquo;local meats and fish.&rdquo; While Bobi did sadly pass away later in the year, his longevity is an inspiration to all those who want to see their dogs live long, healthy lives.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2023\/5\/worlds-oldest-dog-ever-celebrates-31st-birthday-747163\"><span >Read more.<\/span><\/a><\/p><h4>Scientists Found That Talking Nicely to Dogs Makes a Difference<\/h4><p>Not that many of us need an excuse to use baby talk with our dogs, but research found that doing so improves training outcomes.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/canine-corner\/202303\/talk-nicely-when-training-dogs-it-makes-a-difference\"><span >Read more.<\/span><\/a><\/p><h4>200 Dogs Helped a Centenarian Celebrate His Birthday<\/h4><p>Robert Moore loves dogs, so his daughter wanted them to be part of his celebration when he turned 100. They were shocked and delighted when a massive procession of pups showed up.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2023\/06\/23\/dog-pet-parade-100-birthday\/\"><span >Read more.<\/span><\/a><\/p><h4>Research Showed That Dogs Remember Where People Hide Food<\/h4><p>Researchers found that dogs were able to locate food more quickly when they&rsquo;d seen people hide it than when they relied on smell alone to track it down.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/09\/13\/wolves-dogs-food-sight-scent-study\/\"><span >Read more.<\/span><\/a><\/p><h4>Dogs Performed with an Orchestra<\/h4><p>Dogs in Denmark were trained to bark on cue&mdash;and stay quiet the rest of the time&mdash;during a performance of the &ldquo;Hunting Symphony.&rdquo; Said symphony was composed by Leopold Mozart, not his son, sadly precluding any &ldquo;Woofgang Amadeus&rdquo; jokes.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-europe-66705222\"><span >Read more.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of 2023&#8217;s biggest news stories about dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dog-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13851,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions\/13851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}