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September 14, 2012

Strange But True!

Q. Do dogs feel love and other human emotions?

A. Dogs have the same brain structures, hormones and chemical changes that produce our emotional states, answers University of British Columbia behaviorist Stanley Coren in Discover magazine. They even have the hormone oxytocin, which is involved with love and affection, so likely they also have emotions. “However, it is important not to go overboard: The mind of a dog is roughly equivalent to that of a 2- to 2 1/2-year-old child, who clearly has emotions but not all possible ones on the path to adulthood.”


 
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