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IF YOU鈥橰E looking for love, get a dog. Man鈥檚 best friend won鈥檛 just keep you
company, he鈥檒l also boost your chances of finding a mate.

Psychologists from Warwick University have confirmed that a dog helps
potential partners break the ice. 鈥淥ur results show that no matter what guise or
sex or appearance you have, the presence of a dog will encourage people to
interact with you,鈥� says team member June McNicholas.

In the company of a dog that was specially trained to ignore strangers,
McNicholas investigated the animal鈥檚 social ability to encourage interaction.
She took the dog with her during her daily routine for five days and recorded
the number of times she talked to strangers. There were 156 of these
encounters.

But in a subsequent five-day period that McNicholas spent on her own, there
were only 50 meetings. In both cases about 60 per cent of the meetings were with
men.

A male colleague of McNicholas then repeated the experiment with and without
a dog and in two guises. Sometimes he dressed smartly, and other times he looked
scruffy. 鈥淲e know he looked rough because one person came up and him asked where
the local hostel was,鈥� says McNicholas. 鈥淎nd another came out of a shop and gave
him a pasty.鈥� In either guise with a dog at his side, the man met 10 times as
many people as when he was unaccompanied.

鈥淚t shows that dogs are good ice-breakers,鈥� McNicholas concludes. 鈥淚
think we鈥檙e far more predisposed to making contact with each other than social
conventions allow.鈥� For the lovelorn, McNicholas has a further tip: 鈥淵ou could
even train your dog to wag its tail at people you find attractive by giving the
dog a signal.鈥�