Highlights from today's Sociology Hour - Pre-exam Dog Petting

Studies suggest that petting dogs releases the "feel-good" hormones serotonin, prolactin, and oxytocin, as well as lowering the stress hormone cortisol. Ahead of your examinations (and dissertation hand-ins, for third year students) we felt this would a good reason to bring in some dogs for you all to pet!

We are delighted that York charity Keep Your Pet are working with us to bring in some dogs for this event. You can find out more about Keep Your Pet on their website. They are a great cause making a huge difference to local people (and their pets) and we will be collecting donations for them on the day - please do be generous with any spare change you have. We're also grateful to Bethany Robertson for making all the arrangements with Keep Your Pet.

Here are some pictures from today's Pre-exam Dog Petting - a very popular and successful Sociology Hour !

Sociology students having fun with the dogs



Visiting dogs



Sam Bayley & Bethany Robinson (with Jack)



Enjoying the visitors