What is your dog thinking? Brain scans give glimpse

[baldguy]

[xchrom]

1. my dogs think 3 things: do you love me? how much? , do you have a treat? can i have it?,

outside? now?

there's variations on all that to last a lifetime.

actually i think this is exciting -- i think those brains are more active than we realize.

[WillParkinson]

12. Math my not be my strongest suit, but...

I think that's more than '3' things....

[liberal N proud]

2. My dog knows what my doctor thinks.

He told me to start exercise, my dog demands daily walks since.
I was really out of shape and over weight.

It was weird that as soon as he told me to start with walking, the dog thinks she needs the walk and is dragging me with her. Not anyone else in the house, just me.

I have already lost more than 10 pounds, so the dog is pretty smart.

This dog is pretty smart all the way around and has ways to tell us what she needs. She was a rescue dog who has adapted better than one could ever expect. She has revealed herself over the two years we have had her and is really become part of the family.

[NJCher]

11. somehow they know

I don't know how they know, but they know. I think that's a great story. It amuses me to no end that your pup-dog now thinks a walk is indispenable.

I'm a cat person, but when I drive to work, I love to watch people walking their dogs. The dogs look so happy, and it's like they are saying, "This is MY time."

My neighbors let me walk their dog, a beautiful golden lab named Chloe. I have had many wonderful times walking with her.

Here's to you and many long walks with your dog.


Cher

[liberal N proud]

17. Dog are happy on that walk

When you get the leash out, our dog starts dancing and carrying on like she never gets to go.

[Voice for Peace]

18. funny to read this -- I used to get the same sense from my old dog

that she felt responsible for taking me out for a walk every day -- even when she became old and sick and could hardly walk.

miss her

[liberal N proud]

20. Dogs seem to have a mental connection with their people

It is why man domesticated them I think. It is why they work their way into our hearts.

Funny thing is I wasn't for getting this dog after our last one had to be put down, but she shows more love than any of the dogs we have had in the past.

[Gore1FL]

22. I lost mine last June

He was the best friend I ever had.

When I finally get over the loss, I hope to get another.

[progressoid]

3. woozagoodoggie!

[krispos42]

4. Bacon! Bacon! Squirrel?

Is there bacon in your hand? Is there bacon in your shoes? Is there bacon in your crotch? Is there bacon in your hand now? Is there bacon in your crotch now? Squirrel!

[Rhiannon12866]

5. So true, LOL! Squirrel!

[lovemydog]

6. I wonder what were the results

of the mri.

[montanto]

7. "I'm glad I'm not Mitt romney's dog!"?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. The thoughts of the dogs I've known could be boiled down to the following:

1. Food

2. Water

3. Out

4. Pay attention to me

5. Play

6. I don't care where you're going--take me along.

7. Oh, I'm so glad you're back!

[notadmblnd]

9. No "scratch my belly and never stop"?

mine tells me that every night when we go to bed.

[Confusious]

15. My mother in law had an african ridgeback

Whose other thought was, "I need snuggle time." pushed me out of the bed.

[chknltl]

10. the word PETCO translates to:

pull master's arm out of socket while dragging him there.

[alfredo]

13. I guess there is no ferrous metals on her collar, or they were showing what

a session looks like and were not doing a scan at that time.

[emmadoggy]

14. What a cute, cute doggie!

I love how sweet she looks, especially when she was sitting on his lap. So adorable.

Dogs are simply wonderful.

[DesertDiamond]

16. We had a dog named Bernie who was seriously psychic. Bernie hated baths, so when one of us thought..

"Bernie needs a bath," Bernie would suddenly get another one of us to let him outside. If we then thought, "Oh, maybe another day," Bernie would scratch to come back in. And then when the next thought was, "Oh, there he is, so we can bath him now," Bernie would again want to be let out. It was a pattern both my brother and I noticed.

[Voice for Peace]

19. I've sometimes thought they think in pictures.

I would visualize something - and it often seemed the dog could understand, that I could convey the visual picture of what I wanted from her. Sounds a little crazy but it seemed to have some validity whenever I tried it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. I thought we decided this years ago:

[phantom power]

23. word. and also:

[outofstep]

24. My GSD

My GSD is smarter than most of the people I meet on a daily basis. Hell, even my Lab is as well.