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One More Reason Dogs Are Better Than Cats

Laura Timmins plays with Murray, who belongs to a colleague at Fairmount Memorial Association, in the dog run at Pet Haven Park on Friday. Pet Haven plans to open a private dog park that promises to test the temperaments of all canine members. (Jesse Tinsley)

As reported in Time.com, a recent Learning & Behavior study indicates that canines may have an innate ability to sense our mental states.   This idea of “canine telepathy” has been suggested before - often, pet owners comment on how their dog seems to know what they’re thinking. Researcher Monique Udell and others from the University of Florida questioned this idea of animal telepathy by studying canine attentiveness to humans in both domestic dogs and wolves, and found that the animals may be born with the ability to perceive and react to human emotion.  Read more here .

Do you think your canine can read your mind?  Do you think your cat cares?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog