ABOUT OUR STUDY
*Audible and Cesar’s Way Inc. / Cesar Millan’s Dog Psychology Center: Study was based on anecdotal research with 100 volunteer participants over a 28-day period from April 2017 to May 2017. Study focused on testing the impact of different types of audiobook narration and audiobook attributes on participant dogs. Participants were provided with Amazon Echo devices, instructions for playing audiobooks on the Amazon Echo, and survey questions to be filled out daily by participants. Throughout the course of the 28-day study, participants were asked to test 4 different attributes: narration type (e.g., male v. female and variation of accent), volume, time of day, and genre type, with the direction to observe dog behavior when participants (owners) left home and returned home after at least a one-hour period. Participants recorded dog behavior (pre- and post- audiobook play period) on a daily basis, providing quantitative and qualitative responses on their perceived changes in dog behavior to Cesar’s Way, Inc. via an anonymous survey portal. Cesar’s Way, Inc. consolidated and compiled survey responses and calculated behavior differential percentages comparing cumulative participant results before and after audiobook play period. Cumulative results showed that in 27 out of 28 days tested, dogs exhibited positive behavior differential scores post-audiobook play period. For more information on this study, please email dogs@audible.com.