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Canine Lullabies

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Canine Lullabies is a collection of songs designed to have a calming effect on dogs,especially puppies. I'm expecting a new litter or two in July and have only played it for my adult dogs so far. It seems to work.

Gunner May,2007

"I just have to tell you my story. My daughter is now expecting and I couldn't wait to order your original CD. I just gave it to her a few weeks ago for her baby shower. Everyone at the shower was talking about the tape and of course wondering how it would work and saying what a great thing it would be if it did in fact do the trick.
Well, I have to tell you.......my daughter read the directions and saw that you recommend the expectant mother start playing the CD a few months in advance of the birth so she immediately put on the music. The most unbelievable thing happened. Her three year old puppy who was acting up,all of a sudden lay down and went to sleep. She thought it must be a coincidence so the next day she was trying to do some painting in the baby's nursery and the dog started up again being rather active, so again she put on the music, and again the dog just about stopped in her tracks and went to sleep.
Now, the next day I went over to help with the painting. The dog was really wound up because I was there and being rather disruptive. My daughter laughed and said that this would really be a true test of the CD. We both laughed not really expecting any results. Well let me tell you, the doginstantly stopped whining and barking, stood perfectly still for about 60 seconds then she lay down and went to sleep! I couldn't believe my eyes. If your Baby Go To Sleep works even half as good on a fussy baby it would be worth its weight in gold. I am so happy that I ordered your product. I'll keep you posted in a few months time after the baby arrives! Thanks so much for your wonderful product." (Peggy Piontkowski, SassyScrubs.com)

Written by Terry Woodford, founder of Baby-Go-To-Sleep

Since 1985, the heartbeat nursery songs on your Canine Lullaby CD have been played in over 8,420 hospitals and special care centers to help calm infants and children.

For years I considered verifying claims by trainers, friends, and frazzled parents who said the same music that stopped their baby's crying - also calmed their dog. I didn't pursue the possibility that the same music might really calm dogs, because I felt my calling from God was about children - I had left a successful music business career to spread the medical and home use of this music to help preemies, infants, toddlers, and frazzled parents.

But everyone at our office was certainly moved the day we got an e-mail from a mother in South Dakota. She wrote how their golden retriever puppy had gone into a coma after a serious operation and wasn't expected to live. Her children decided to play their Baby-Go-To-Sleep CD around the clock for their puppy in hopes it might help. On the third day she heard her children crying. Their puppy had awakened and had run to the door to go outside...

I was still skeptical that the music had contributed to the recovery. Through the years working with the medical community I've learned that we live in a world where everything has to be proven scientifically. Most people find it hard to accept simple solutions for complex problems. But this mother's story, along with other reports, made me curious enough to visit my local pet stores to check out what's being sold to calm dogs.

Since I haven't owned a dog in years, it was a rather amazing experience. What don't they make for dogs these days? I even saw a device that's supposed to translate a dog's emotions. The owner gets a read-out of feelings the dog is trying to express from the sound of his bark. Is this yet another marvel of modern science or what?

But for dogs who are anxious and uncontrollable barkers, I found only shock collars, tranquillizers, and a plug-in-the-wall device that sprays a synthetic pheromone around the dog to mimic what's produced by female dogs when nursing. When I searched the web, I found a sonic collar that emmits a loud unpleasant but harmless audible sound to deter your dog's barking.

Back at my office, I stuck a Las Vegas TV news segment in the VCR and watched it one more time. I watched as both a baby and a dog conked out to our Baby-Go-To-Sleep Heartbeat Music Therapy CD. That got me thinking. There must be millions of barking dogs and whining puppies keeping families awake at night. Don't dogs bark and get upset for many of the same reasons babies cry? If my music really worked for pets, playing our CD would be a more dog-friendly calming method than any of the products I'd just seen in the pet stores.

Incessant crying is the primary trigger for shaken-baby syndrome and infant abuse. Over 510,000 of our recordings have been distributed by professional organizations to stop incessant crying and help prevent infant abuse. If incessant barking is one of the primary triggers for the abuse of dogs, then stopping the barking, might also prevent animal abuse.

In September 2003 I got an opportunity to verify whether the music really works to calm anxious dogs. I was invited to write the lead article for the October 2003 issue of "Boarderline," official newsletter of the American Boarding Kennel Association. I told our story, gave reasons why the music might work, and asked the member kennel owners to help evaluate it.

Many kennel owners already play background music during the day on kennel-wide overhead speaker systems. Playing classical music, smooth jazz, oldies radio or talk radio are the typical choices. And ones their employees enjoy. Employees who thought our nursery songs with a heartbeat were going to be the all-day substitute for their favorite music threatened to quit!

By March 2004, ninety-three kennel owners reported playing our music at a low volume calmed their dogs and stopped or reduced barking. Frankly, I was amazed. Even more dramatic results were achieved when the CD was played on a portable player for 30 to 60 minutes at a time to calm an anxious dog or small groups of barkers. Some claimed that playing the CD on overhead systems at night or for short periods during the evening hours resulted in fewer accidents and less diarrhea.

Their enthusiasm was contagious. But when I read an article from the April 29, 2004, Honolulu Star-Bulletin my adrenaline really started flowing.

In the Honolulu Zoo, aggressive young male Chimpanzees had smashed a $50,000 glass window in the viewing room and had been hurting each other. University of Hawaii professor, Doctoral researcher Joe Ruszkowski with help from Dr. Arthur Harvey developed a pilot study to determine whether playing our heartbeat music therapy recordings would calm the aggressive chimps. The music was played during the chimp's most aggressive period. Within 15 minutes, some of the chimps were so relaxed they were falling asleep. Primary chimpanzee keeper, Greg Hamilton, said that had never happened before.

Since our Heartbeat Therapy Music is reportedly calming dogs and chimpanzees, there are probably other animals who will respond the same way. Have we discovered the music that truly soothes the savage beast?

So why would animals choose to listen to and be calmed by nursery songs with a heartbeat? If my theory is correct, puppies and mature dogs, and possibly other animals, are attracted to our music and calmed by it for many of the same reasons it attracts and calms infants and children. Not only do dogs and most other animals hear much better than we do, but they have an extraordinary ability to selectively focus on and listen to specific sounds they choose to hear. They can block out or habituate to unwanted sounds in the environment.

Music is mathematical relationships of sound through time. The simple songs on this CD were crafted by incorporating the basic principles of relaxation and learning in the musical arrangements.

Like human babies, dogs seem to be attracted to the mathematical simplicity of the music, the compassion in the singers' voices, and the familiar human heartbeat sound. They learn and are calmed by the same basic relaxation principles of simplicity, repetition, predictability, ordered structure, and consistent tempo that we humans are.

Obviously, the lyrical messages of the songs are not relevant. The music has a therapeutic effect because it gives both dogs and babies a non-threatening, safe haven to psychologically "flee" to when they are anxious or experiencing the fight-or-flight response.

In fact, considering the applications of this music to traumatized children, I am wondering if animal rescue workers may find our music particularly helpful.

Conclusion
Whether my theories about music and animals are correct or not, your pet likes to be pampered just like babies do. They like to feel safe, calm and at peace. That's what pet owners and kennel owners tell us this music does for their dogs, and what research has shown it does for infants.

Independent clinical research confirms that playing our CD calms babies on life support and during painful and or frightening medical procedures. It helps children who have been severely traumatized or abused. Plus, parents in over 2.5 million homes have played it to help their baby stop crying and sleep through the night.

Even though I have tried to give a logical explanation as to why this music works, it is not a miracle of modern science nor is it magic. In a way, it is something more. I believe that God calls us as human beings to not only help other humans, but also to be stewards
of all creation.

When I first saw these songs bring calm and healing to agitated babies in a Cardiac Recovery Unit, I was confident in my talent but not egotistical enough to think I somehow
intentionally created music so powerful it could help save a baby's life. Through a series of events, God made it clear to me that He was instrumental in the creation of this music and had special uses for it.

I never anticipated it might be used to bring peace to dogs and other pets. But now that seems somehow right. God cares about people, yes - but God cares about and loves all his creatures. His desire is for them to have the same health, happiness, and peace, that we pray to receive ourselves.

For years I held back on giving God the proper credit for creating and using this music to heal infants and children, and for changing my life. I was working in a scientific environment, and I had enough problems introducing a new product, to risk sounding "weird". But I can now honestly say I believe the research and test results are simply measurements and verifications of what God is doing through this music. I hope you find playing this music comforting to your dog. A rested, happy, healthy dog is a man or woman's best friend!
By Terry Woodford, Creator and Owner of Baby-Go-to-Sleep
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We started this disk about 10 minutes before we left the house, and our two dogs seemed to calm right down.
We found it worked very well

I bought this for my puppy who has severe anxiety in the car. I was hoping it would help ease some of her drooling and upset stomach/vomiting. She still continued to drool and has vomited while this was playing. The sound quality of this CD is horrible. The volume of each song is not consistent. I had to keep turning it up because it seemed that the sound level would drop with each new song. I don't think this is a tool that can help an animal with severe problems but it may help in calming one with milder ones.

I got a 9 1/2 week old pup and he would cry like crazy when placed in his crate for the night..I tried various suggestions and stumbled upon this cd after about the third or fourth night of horrible whining..I ordered it and the 3 or 4 days it took to get here seemed like WEEKS..lol :p Kidding aside, I popped this in the very first night it arrived, and the 'baby' instantly calmed down and by the 2nd song of the cd, he was fast asleep. I used it every night when it was time to go night-night and it worked like a charm..After about 3 weeks, he was content to go in to his crate and not need the lullabies anymore..but it saved my and my pup's sanity for the days (nights) we used it..I would recommend it, it is worth a shot!! :)

My dog does not like thunder. Playing this music really helps him stay calm and relaxed. The heartbeats in the music are nice. However, when my husband is home we have to play this in a separate room because the lullabies drive my husband nuts. Just be aware of that before ordering. Otherwise the music works great for my dog.

If anything, these lullabies will put the human species to sleep. Very soothing and works best on my smaller dogs. My large lab, however, if she's wound up, completely ignores the music.

I bought this to try with my fearful and blind senior dog, hoping that it would soothe him in periods of great stress. It has worked beautifully and after a few minutes, he will stop his nervous, mechanical pacing and panting and just lay down and quietly listen or doze off. Am hoping to get the same results during the upcoming thunderstorm season. Highly recommend this product.