Dogs know that smile on your face

[Panich52]

Dogs know that smile on your face

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Dogs can tell the difference between happy and angry human faces, according to a new study. The discovery represents the first solid evidence that an animal other than humans can discriminate between emotional expressions in another species, the researchers say.

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Can't chimps tell?

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[shenmue]

1. I can has snack?

Pet on head? Thank u thank u.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

2. And WE PEOPLE know that smile on our dogs' faces!

Glad to see science catching up with common knowledge. Being mammals, its logical that we would have some propensity to being able to read ea other's body languages to some extent.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. My Yorkie studies my face like a road map.

And otherwise keeps me under CONSTANT surveilence.

No movement of my body.... no matter how infinitesimal... goes without a observable physical reaction from him.

Yes, it can get a little tedious. One feels burdened at times.

If not under house arrest.

[NaturalHigh]

4. Frankly I think they know more than that.

I'm pretty sure my little girl knows when I'm in a bad mood but trying to hide it. When I'm depressed, she seems to give me some extra cuddling and attention.

[BrotherIvan]

5. I think chimps can tell, but they can't be bothered :)

My cats certainly know too. I have recently discovered that they know by what I am carrying when I head out the door where I am going. It's us, the humans, who are the slow ones to understand.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

6. A couple of years ago, my war-related PTSD reared its ugly head

For the better part of a month, the bit from Paul Simon's "Slip-Slidin' Away" described me:

She said, "A good day
Ain't got no pain"
She said, "A bad day's when I lie in bed
And think of things that might have been."

My Great Pyrenees dog, Belle, recognized my bad days, and would lie down with me, giving me what can only be described as loving care. She knew I was hurting, and did her best to help me. I'd say I got more help from her than from the VA shrink I saw.

[Javaman]

7. My dog smiles back at me when I get home.

He bares just his front teeth at me while wagging like crazy. I must get a photo of him doing that.