Bad intentions or just clumsy? Fido knows

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Looks like your dog understands you more than you think. The results of a recent study explains why my pup Cowboy quits the game when I fake a throw one too many times.

Researchers used a unwilling-unable paradigm to study 96 dogs of various breeds and ages and discovered that dogs may be able to actually understand humans’ intentions.

This paradigm measures whether an animal is sensitive to human intentions. In this case, they examined whether the dog could tell if the human ...