Your Dog May Really Understand You
Domestic dogs are much more likely to steal food when they think nobody can see them, suggesting for the first time they are capable of understanding a human’s point of view. Many dog owners think their pets are clever or that they understand humans but, until now, this has not been tested by science.
Juliane Kaminski, of the Univ. of Portsmouth’s Department of Psychology, has shown that when a human forbids a dog from taking food, dogs are four times more likely to disobey in a dark room than a lit room, suggesting they take into account what the human can or cannot see.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/02/your-dog-may-really-understand-you
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Once again science is finally proving something that is common knowledge. Dogs and cats, I’m sure, but I think dogs pick...
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absolutely true, i believe dogs do have a solid theory of mind. i looked after a neighbours dog once, but our yard...
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This is true of cats too…My cat never gets up on the counters or dining room table when I’m in the room, but there’s...
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Fucking dogs, man. Miss Emily has the “omg mommy please don’t hate me” guilty face down to a science.
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