Kamila Filimonova Dogs, like humans have a preferred paw to use while we are either left-handed or right-handed. Studies show that if the dog is a male he is going to be mostly likely left-pawed, if it’s a female she is more likely to be right-pawed.Neutered animals show no preference over one paw or the other.Left-pawed dogs are chosen as police dogs or guide dogs and left-pawed dogs have a greater risk for diseases.When testing, clinical trails preform the test around a 100 times.When you ask your dog to shake you can see the paw he prefers most.Paw preferences are evenly distributes among dogs, while humans are 90% right-handed and 10% are left-handed.
A team of researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia, which was heard by Doctor Luke Schneider was trying to determine the differences between left and right pawed dogs, they used 73 dogs as their subjects.To decide if they were left or right, they used a Kong toy and added food into it.After that 37% had no preference at all.The remaining dogs showed that 34% with left pawed and 29% were right pawed.After they determined which paw they