The participating dogs in a study on how they perceive different languages spoken by their owner and others required that their brains were MRI scanned while listening to two different languages. They were trained to keep completely still in order for a successful MRI scan …
Tinsley is a one-year-old Shiloh Shephard dog. She has been credited with leading police to the place where his owner had crashed his car in difficult conditions and where he lay dazed and shivering in the snow. She was reported to the New Hampshire State …
Dogs, like cats, entertain us. You can’t help but be amused by this photograph. It makes you wonder why the dog on the left is doing what he is doing. Clearly, he can’t see anything other than a blurred image of a curtain. I sense …
I’ve seen this happen with cats. Extremely rarely an individual walks into an animal shelter and expressly picks out the most unpopular, sickest, unadoptable, oldest, undesirable animal in the shelter and adopt him or her. It’s almost the exact opposite what nearly everybody else does. …
I would expect dogs to respond to objects that defy Newton’s First Law of Motion. This is because this groundbreaking law describes the natural physical behaviour of objects. Dogs learn to experience how objects move and therefore when they move in an unexpected way, they …
Ikram Korkmazer has become slightly famous because of his Instagram page. He is a very kindhearted person who likes to feed the stray cats and dogs who come to his shop. I have written about him before (see link below). That’s unsurprising because what he …
In this short video of 15 seconds a dog goes through the motions of eating nothing. But the dog thinks that he has been offered a food treat and that he has taken it. The person offers what the dog thinks is a food treat …
This cute dog entertains himself and the humans who watch him by jumping over them with a glass in his mouth. We don’t know why he has a glass in his mouth. And he is very excited. It’s a bit like a circus act. The …
Do you think that shelter dogs pick the human with which they want to live? They certainly have a say in it because it is very easy to come across stories where timid shelter dogs have temporarily come out of their shells and approached an …
