🐾🎧 Stat of the Day: Janet Marlow has toured the world as a 10-string guitarist, but her preferred audience members come with four legs.

The musician has spent the past 30 years working to perfect music specifically tailored to pets, based on the science of animal hearing.

Eye Ear of the tiger: Animals can hear far higher frequencies than humans. While we max out around 20,000 Hz – a very high-pitched sound in our ears – dogs are able to hear up to 45,000 Hz, and cats up to 64,000 Hz.

Armed with this knowledge, Marlow set out to compose music with calming instruments that play smooth, steady frequencies, eliminating the variances in music that typically spook or overstimulate pets. Her company, Pet Acoustics, offers Bluetooth speakers loaded with a variety of tunes for different pet species.

Science says…A 2022 study found dogs exposed to Marlow’s music exhibited a calmer physiological and behavioral state compared to traditional classical music, or none at all.

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