Dogs Know When You’re Lying, and they still love you:
Study: Dogs can dig through human deception
Fido always seems to know which hand hides the treat, even without sniffing, and researchers and pet owners alike have long wondered whether pooches imagine what we are thinking or whether they simply read body language.
“Dogs evolved with humans, and a number of studies have suggested they are particularly sensitive to human cues,” says psychologist William Roberts of Canada’s Dalhousie University. Sentimental pet owners might even say their dogs know what they are thinking.
Maybe that’s why this dog didn’t want the treats from Obama?
Gee, that couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that the dog seemed trained to accept a treat only if he heard the word “OK.”
I have a co-worker with this sticky above her desk:
Dear Lord, help be the person my dog thinks I am, today.
Good catch, Pat.