Reuters: A study found that dogs are capable of feeling a basic form of jealousy.
Reuters: A study found that dogs are capable of feeling a basic form of jealousy.
The owners of 36 small dogs were asked to do three things in the test – shower affection on a plush animatronic dog, shower affection on a plastic jack-o-lantern pail and read a children’s book aloud – while ignoring their pet.
Researchers then watched how the dogs reacted.
Roughly 80 percent of the dogs pushed or touched their owner when they were coddling the toy, almost twice as often as when the owner played with the pail and about four times as often as when the owner was reading.
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