Is Your Dog Judging You?

A new study claims that all dogs can recognize ineptitude in humans. They ran a series of experiments where humans would try to open containers, while researchers observed how dogs reacted. Some of the containers were empty, while some had food inside. And some humans were told to struggle with the containers, while others were not. They found that dogs tended to focus on the humans who were able to quickly open the container. But get this . . . that information didn’t affect the future behavior of boy dogs, BUT girl dogs were different. Female dogs seemed to JUDGE those who were incompetent, and would ignore those people and actively seek out the competent humans right away, knowing they could open the containers.