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Dogs can use surprisingly complex tricks to deceive humans [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 10, 2017 | Phoebe Weston

Posted on 03/10/2017 7:13:54 AM PST by C19fan

Dogs aren't as honest and obedient as they might like to have us think.

We think we're in control but new research shows that dogs can be very deceptive - especially when it involves them getting an extra sausage.

Scientists found that dogs can be sneaky and manipulative in order to get what they want from humans.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: doggyping; dogs
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I blame dogs learning bad behavior from cats.
1 posted on 03/10/2017 7:13:54 AM PST by C19fan
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Scientists found that dogs can be sneaky and manipulative in order to get what they want from humans.

Anyone who owns a German Shorthair Pointer already knows this!


2 posted on 03/10/2017 7:17:28 AM PST by BobinIL
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My sister takes her little Dog to Obedience School once a week, for months now , LOL now I know who’s really getting trained


3 posted on 03/10/2017 7:17:49 AM PST by butlerweave
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> I blame dogs learning bad behavior from cats. <

LOL. I was going to post something along those lines, but you beat me to it.


4 posted on 03/10/2017 7:19:55 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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They are nearly as cunning as democrats.

5 posted on 03/10/2017 7:19:59 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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I thought the story was about how much taxpayer money was wasted to “learn” this!


6 posted on 03/10/2017 7:21:38 AM PST by gr8eman (People too dumb to understand what the word "country" means will not have one!)
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Nah, if that were true dogs would stand there and obnoxiously meow until they got what they wanted


7 posted on 03/10/2017 7:22:33 AM PST by McGavin999
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Anyone who owns a German Shorthair Pointer already knows this!

Cocker Spaniels as well. Mine will run into the family room and hide her treat, then come back to me acting as if I never gave her one in the first place. Sneaky little sprites, they are!

8 posted on 03/10/2017 7:22:37 AM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
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Mine gets a biscuit whenever he goes out and goes to the bathroom (the bathroom part being the key thing here). But lately he steps outside, turns right around and comes back in, and runs to the cabinet and barks for a cookie.

I think my dog is a democrat. Wants something for nothing.


9 posted on 03/10/2017 7:24:00 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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This is not news too "owners" of relatively smart dogs.

My dog now wolfs down the goose poop she finds if i'm not watching. I used to be able to yell at her and get her to drop it. Now it's gone in an instant. No way to get her to not eat it except eternal vigilance and a short leash on grass where the geese hang out.

10 posted on 03/10/2017 7:24:03 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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I had a 15 pound wirehair mutt. Once, the 5 yr old left a peanut butter sandwich on the chair in the kitchen. I was outside raking leaves and the door was open. The dog went to the front door and around to the kitchen door then the inside hall doorway and looked at the sandwich from all angles. She also looked all about her at each vantage point. When the boy went into the bathroom and closed the door she ran through the front door to the kitchen, snatched the sandwich, and exited through the kitchen door and took the sandwich out behind the shed to consume it at leisure.


11 posted on 03/10/2017 7:25:07 AM PST by arthurus
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Too many people have decided to have a dog than a baby. Self Centered? lol


12 posted on 03/10/2017 7:25:44 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (There will come a time when those screaming Fascists are in fact the actual Facists. W Churchill)
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My dog thinks now thinks she deserves a treat when I come back into the house and she wasn’t part of the trip outside.


13 posted on 03/10/2017 7:26:16 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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14 posted on 03/10/2017 7:26:19 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The Russians?

lol


15 posted on 03/10/2017 7:26:46 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (There will come a time when those screaming Fascists are in fact the actual Facists. W Churchill)
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Mine throws poochie eyes and a pout to get pet and some treats, but just try and disturb his sun bathing, I dare you.


16 posted on 03/10/2017 7:28:39 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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> I think my dog is a democrat. Wants something for nothing. <

This actually a country song about that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3VLqLLWxbQ


17 posted on 03/10/2017 7:28:54 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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My GSP will be 14 this year. She’s a crafty old gal. :) Her prime weapon is an insidious near-ultrasonic LASER like device that she can annoyingly shoot directly at your ears.

She knows that nobody likes a whiner, and she wields the weapon sparingly... but nonetheless she does wield it when her evening cookie is running late.


18 posted on 03/10/2017 7:29:21 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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Cooler Spaniels are the worst.

Lil punkz...

Come here pig!!!


19 posted on 03/10/2017 7:29:34 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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I think my dog is a democrat. Wants something for nothing.
= = =

And, as you have described the situation, is still full of crap.


20 posted on 03/10/2017 7:32:23 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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