fairfolio
Saved Projects

Are Dogs Right or Left Pawed?

CSEF · 2004 Mammalian Biology

Alexandra Ackourey · Colina Middle School, Thousand Oaks

Overview

Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to find out whether most dogs prefer to use their right or left paw more than the other. Methods/Materials Information was obtained from 217 dogs chosen randomly from a dog park. Before testing I recorded whether the dog was a male or female and what breed it was. I then tested each dog with five tests - shake, lay down, tease, jump, and walk - and then determined if the dog preferred to use their left or right paw more than the other. Results I found that about two thirds of the dogs tested favored their left paw over their right and used the same paw continuously throughout the testing. Conclusions/Discussion The results completely support my hypothesis and I found that even breaking down results by size and male/female, all categories still preferred to use their left paw.

Summary statement

I wanted to see if most dogs preferred to use their left or right paw over the other.

Help received

None

Competition history

  • CSEF 2004 Mammalian Biology · Entry J1001

Resources

Related projects

Closest projects by meaning, across every fair and year in the corpus.

Browse more like this

Source: California Science & Engineering Fair public projects

Save projects to your library

Sign in with Google to keep track of projects you find interesting, organized into folders. An account also raises your daily allowance for “Has this been done?”, and lets you create a key for the MCP server with a much higher limit than anonymous use. Browsing stays public.

Continue with Google