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Dogs really can read our minds and have an innate understanding of what we are going through, researchers say.
For anybody who has watched Lassie, this will come as no surprise.
Dogs really can read our minds and have an innate understanding of what we are going through, researchers say.
So-called “canine telepathy” has developed after dogs accepted humans as “social companions” and learned to understand them. The longer a dog spends time with its owner the better he gets to know them, the researchers discovered.
But they also concluded that the ability to read a human is something a dog is born with, even if it lives in the wild. The University of Florida researchers came to their conclusions after an experiment involving wolves, shelter dogs and domestic dogs.
The animals were given the chance to beg for food from a responsive owner or somebody who could not see them.
As had been hoped, the shelter dogs and the domestic dogs successfully begged the attentive owner for the food. But in an interesting twist, the wolves also behaved in the same way, suggesting they had the same ability too even though they were not at all domesticated.
Researcher Monique Udell said: “Just like we learn to read each other, our family for example, the more dogs are around people the more sensitive they are going to be.”
What am I thinking, boy? - Daily Mail
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DocWalker, wrote
@Steve Evans - Seriously? The story could have equally been sourced from Discovery News, Science Daily, Red Orbit or even the researcher's own website where it's published. Perhaps you could just scroll down to the bottom of each item before reading it and then decide whether you'd reject it out of hand based on its origin.
ken, wrote
Owen Reynolds, wrote
This is so true. All animals can talk through telepathy. Even us humans. We recently moved into the forest (from the city) and we have deer who are proactively hunted. The neighbors say they all run from them, but I have been able to to communicate with them telepathically and they will now come over to me, as well as no longer run when they see me come out the front door. We also have dogs and I've long been communicating with them telephathically. I work with a number of animal communicators in the US and more or less this is a survival instinct we all have to be able to "sense" things. Us humans typically don't listen to it very much, but have you ever been somewhere and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up but you dont' quite know why, but you sense danger, this is all part of this communication process. As you begin to listen and understand what it is, you will see. Animals can send images, and receive images, kind of like reading your mind, or seeing what you see. Many militaries around the world use people who can do this.. remote viewing. Each person can chose to believe if this is exists, but we are all capable of it, it's just a matter of recognizing what you see, hear, etc and learning to distinguish interpret between your own imagination and receiving images. that's the hardest part. Animals can also read your intent (exactly why when you grab a leash to take them for a walk they run to you, and when you grab a leash to take them to the vet, they run FROM you! - funny huh?!)
gus, wrote
Dogs are great,sadly many are treated badly,and virtually no money is put aside for their welfare ,its left to the numerically small number of caring public to donatepay for them,and private shelters...u can judge a nation by the way they treat their animals{read that somewhere}
ken, wrote
Chris Taylor, wrote
How much of this is instinct, and how much learned behaviour? 15,000 years is not long for widespread evolutionary traits to emerge.
Anonymous, wrote
Our best friends have lived and evolved with us for centuries. They know us well. Good dog, good, good dog.
Steve Evans, wrote
IOL, please let us know up front when stories are sourced from the Daily Mail, preferably in the headline, so your readers who aren't gullible idiots can avoid that crappy rag's drivel, and save a little bandwidth too.
dogowner, wrote
having owned dogs for 50 years plus I always suspected that they understood me better than the wife did.
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