A dog is definitely man's best friend. He is loving, funny and loyal as can be. New research has revealed another reason why dogs are worth every drop of our love. It has been proven that your puppy knows when someone is mean to you and remembers it.
Does it ever occur to you that yours, otherwise very nice puppy, you go crazy when a person you don't like walks in the vicinity? Science has found an answer to this phenomenon. The truth is, yes your puppy knows when someone is mean to you and remembers it.
V studies divided the owners and their dogs into three groups. In each group, the dogs observed how their owner was doing asked the experimenter, let him helps open the jar for investing. In the first group, the experimenters they did not respond at the request of the owner. In the second group are experimenters helped open the jar, and in the third they are made it clear that they would not offer their help.
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And how did the puppies react to the experimenter's behavior? Experimenters are later dogs offered a treat. V the dogs in the first and second groups accepted the treat, v to the third group, where the experimenter was unfriendly to the owner, they did refused. This is proof that it can we calmly trust our puppy when it tells us that it doesn't like a certain person.
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