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Originally Posted by stovesj  A couple of days ago I read an article in the newspaper about a dog study. The study was to determine if dogs were capable of showing empathy to humans. While watching a human yawn 76% of the dogs also yawned. Then they mentioned in a prior study that dogs do not recognize themselves in a mirror. I'm still puzzled over that one. What does the dog think when they look in the mirror and see you holding a dog. If they don't recognize themself then do they think you are cheating on them???  What do you think? Does your dog seem to know their own reflection? |
Dogs don't have any concept of themselves. In fact, they don't know themselves from their pack. In other words, they just know the pack to which they belong, and that is the closest to a sense of personal identity they have. You might could take that to mean that they see themselves as people, since at home, your family is their pack...
