Man’s Best Friend, Your Dog Is Ready To Steal Your Food If They Think You Can’t See Them
February 12, 2013 1:39 PM 
Devoted dog owners will often swear that their pet somehow understands them. My Grandma June would say, look, just by the way she tilts her head, I know she understands me. We would all roll our eyes.
And the next time someone tries to tell them they’re imagining it, they have the perfect response – scientists think so too. Too bad my Grandma isn’t around to throw that back at us.
According to Daily Mail 42 female and 42 Male dogs were tested. In each test, someone told the dog it couldn’t take the food. But when the room was dark, the dogs were more than twice as likely to steal the food and acted much more quickly, even when the person remained in the room. The researchers ruled out the possibility that dogs were simply basing their decisions on associative rules, such as dark means food. The findings, published in the journal Animal Cognition, could be useful to groups who work with dogs – the police, the blind and gun dog handlers.
I think it’s funny, and I wonder how many of us already knew these findings. I have movies of my son feeding our dog, and she wouldn’t take it until he looked away and I was out of the room.
Our dog Maddie waits until we are gone and raids the butter or cookies on the counter, whatever she can get when we leave. Now I have to make sure I have the lights on if we have snacks out.
It’s a great study and there is more to it, read here for more info and a chuckle or two.
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