New research finds that dogs can sense what their owners are feeling and will go through obstacles to help them.
In a paper called “Timmy’s in the well: Empathy and prosocial helping in dogs,” researchers showed that dogs with strong bonds to their owners hurried to push through a door when they heard their person crying.
The name of the paper pays homage to Lassie, the collie heroine of 1950s TV (her human was the boy Timmy), and appears in the journal Learning & Behavior.
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