Yeah. So one one favorite really stood out to me and I will say that when I was in middle school, I had a science teacher who told us that dogs didn't really love us back and that like if they liked us, it's because we were salty and they just wanted the salt then.

And I remember being so mad, but I also was 12, right? So I had like no capacity to argue back with the science teacher.

But now I do. Now I have written a book to avenge that memory of probably sixth grade or whatever.

The science is so clear that dogs love us back.

Like I think anybody who has a dog knows that's true.

But my favorite result that we came across when we were doing the book is on that point.

So we know from psychology about this thing called attachment bonds and the attachment bonds that we form with our parents, especially our moms, will go on to influence all of our relationships for the rest of our lives.

They get set really early in our first couple of years.

So if you've got a parent who is, you know, responsive and gentle and kind, you're going to have secure attachment.

If your needs are neglected, you might get a kind of anxious attachment.

You know, you can sometimes change it, but it's really important.

So there's a ton of research on attachment bonds.

And one of the ways we've studied that is that they will put babies in fMRI machines, which are the things that show the part of your brain that light up when you're thinking about different stuff.

And then they'll let them see their moms and a certain part of their brain lights up.

That doesn't light up for friends, you know, people who are they're used to seeing or acquaintances.

So we know that part of the brain is responsible for the attachment bond.

That's where it manifests neurologically.

So researchers have done this study with dogs.

They train dogs to lay really still in an MRI, which is kind of amazing by itself.

And then they would have the dogs, humans come up so they could see and smell the person.

And the same part of the dog's brain lit up when they saw their human as happened in babies, when they saw their mother.

So what we know is like on a neurological level, dogs have that same kind of love response when they see us as babies have when they see their moms.

And that's that the only study that shows we have this real like biological evidence that our dogs love us back.

We can measure it in hormone levels, like when we pet and interact with our dog, we all get that surge of oxytocin, this really good cuddle love hormone, but the dogs get it, too.

So yeah, that was my favorite evidence that we found.

And I just love how it's this really classic science of love and connection that shows up perfectly with dogs.

So you got this a little bit in your answer, but are there any other misconceptions that maybe people have about dogs or how we relate to our dogs that any of the research you cite in your book got into or that you particularly want to dispel?

Yeah. One thing that I think is really important is a lot of people still have this idea of the alpha dog that there's like this hierarchy.

And people will ask me this all the time and I'm like, I have five golden retrievers, and they're like, Which one is the Alpha? If I'm feeling kind, I will say I am.