For this project we were given the option of working on our own or collaborating with other for content and data however in the end we would all have our own final projects. We got to go out into the world and conduct our own research as well as collect lots of data to answer the question we chose separately to guide us. The final product for this was an infographic on our question and what we did including how we collected our data and our results.
The question that I was trying to answer was; "Does the relative size difference between dogs affect how they interact with other dogs?" I researched this question because I have two dogs, one an older female, and one a very young male and they act so different when coming into contact with other dogs when separate. I found and learned many things throughout that i did not expect and many things that wowed me and surprised me. I collected my information differently than everyone else because of how busy I was outside of school. I did most of my research online which included many TED talks, the reading of research papers, and other various articles and videos. I found this very interesting and also found lots of valuable information. What I found out overall was that the aggression has so little to do with their size and is affected so much more by their previous training as well as past experiences, breed, household, and the owners. Through a TED talk that I watched, I learned that a dogs aggression can be traced directly back to the dogs life at home and how it is trained and how a dog's aggression has to do with the things behind what you see rather than the cover of the book so to say. I also found that it could be due to some of the dog breeds and their genes and what they have been bread for through their history of domestication. My future questions would be more on the lines of what breeds are more aggressive. Also, what in a dogs training can cause it to be more or less aggressive and how can you go about training a dog so that they are less aggressive?