{"id":792,"date":"2025-05-01T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=792"},"modified":"2025-02-09T04:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T04:43:19","slug":"love-hormone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/love-hormone\/","title":{"rendered":"6 fascinating facts about the \u2018love hormone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbcearth.com\/news\/6-fascinating-facts-about-the-love-hormone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-793 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/love_hormone-300x168.png\" alt=\"Love Hormone\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/love_hormone-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/love_hormone-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/love_hormone-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/love_hormone-1536x860.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/love_hormone.png 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The look of love. \u00a9 Yuki Cheung, EyeEm | Getty\/BBC Earth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>\u201cDogs are chock full of the \u2018love hormone\u2019<br \/>\nDogs\u2019 bodies produce oxytocin when in the presence of their human counterparts \u2013 and they get a big burst of it every time they make eye contact with their bonded humans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When a dog\u2019s brain is flooded with the love hormone, it\u2019s better able to follow the social cues of its owners. And the longer a dog maintains its owners\u2019 gaze, the more elevated the levels of oxytocin released&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbcearth.com\/news\/6-fascinating-facts-about-the-love-hormone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDogs are chock full of the \u2018love hormone\u2019 Dogs\u2019 bodies produce oxytocin when in the presence of their human counterparts \u2013 and they get a big burst of it every time they make eye contact with their bonded humans. When a dog\u2019s brain is flooded with the love hormone, it\u2019s better able to follow the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}