Pups are beautiful, intelligent creatures, with a massive capacity to love and empathise with their parents. In fact, there was a test done to see if dogs had empathy.
Their Mom or Dad sat on a chair behind an easily opened door. They were to call for help from their pups, who was let into the rooms and left alone to rescue their parents. The sole variable in this test? One group of parents were to call for help in as neutral a tone as possible, and the other was to genuinely sound like they needed help.
The result is simple – of course pups have empathy! The pups whose parents sounded distressed responded faster than the ones whose parents sounded neutral! By respond, however, we don’t mean rescue. Sometimes, our pups can be very silly, just like Gio the Beagle!
Try as he might, he couldn’t reach his favourite toy! It’s only when Dad called him down did this pup notice the easy way to grab his toy. Whoops!
Feature Image Source: John ET Manalo MD
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