Boop.
It turns out your very good boy or very good girl could be lying to you.
A study last year found that doggos can deceive humans to get what they want.
The study, which was published in Animal Cognition, was conducted by researchers from Switzerland.
In order to conduct the study, the researchers trained 27 dogs of different ages (doggos, puppers and big ole’ woofers) to detect the difference between someone who allowed them to have their favourite treat (the cooperative partner) and someone who wouldn’t (the competitive partner).
LISTEN: Sorry to all the parents of fur babies, but they’re just animals. The Mamamia Out Loud team discuss. Post continues.
During the study the dogs would lead the hoomans to three different boxes: one that would contain sausages – their favourite treat; one that contained biscuits; and one that was empty.
The cooperative partner would give them whatever was in the box and the competitive partner would keep the treats for themselves.
The researchers found the dogs would lead the person who’s more likely to give them their treat straight to the sausages.
But when it came to the person who would not give them their favourite treat, the dogs were more likely to led them to the empty box.
“On both test days, the dogs were more likely to lead the cooperative partner than the competitive one to the box containing the preferred food, and this effect was stronger on the second than on the first test day,” the study found.
Yep, clever lil’ doggos.
This comes after another study found that your puppers love it when you speak to them in your special pupper voice.
You see, some very clever humans conducted an experiment with both some puppers (puppies) and some doggos (adult dogs) and some women (humans).
Some of them were big woofers and some of them were tiny doggos.
The humans then published their findings in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal in January 2017 for other humans to read.
To conduct their experiment they gave the humans 90 photos of some puppies (30), some adult dogs (30), and some much older woofers (30).
During the experiment they found the puppers were more responsive when they heard people speaking in their special pupper voice or special doggo voice, than if they heard them speaking in their normal adult voice.
They were “reacting more quickly, looking more often at the loudspeaker and approaching it closer for longer periods”.
Where as the older doggos responded pretty much the same way to the special pupper voices and the normal adult voices (i.e. they’re too old for this shit).
Basically, they concluded that humans have a special voice for puppers… and puppers love it.
Top Comments
OK, so I've made a few jokes and some (somehow) got by the moderators ninja style - so now let's get serious and sit on those brass tacks.
If I introduced myself like this.
Hi this is dude, I'm a doggy daddy for a doggo floofy woofer and my wife is a yummy mummy with her own blog, how serious are you going to take either of us or would you run to the hills tearing your hair out in panic laying kerosene behind you as you run, but this childish language is becoming part of the common vernacular now and I'm not sure where it originates from or why.
Infantile language is just that, infantile and if you don't like it you are just hurty wurty.
Came down to the comments specifically to see how many people were whining about the use of words like ‘doggo’, haha. I feel slightly ashamed but I absolutely love ‘doggo’ and ‘pupper’...it makes me feel warm and fuzzy...sue me! :) we all need a bit of lighthearted doggo-related love and nonsense in our lives!
No! I refuse to be light hearted.
Absolutely, without evocation, it's verboten, it's touching baked goods while they are still resting, or double dipping but twice as worse - it's an outrage and not happening on my watch Steffo