Experts say they have proved for the first time that dogs know how humans think.
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth got 86 dogs and their owners to take part in an experiment. |
| Photo credit Mustafa Sayed |
The owners and their dogs took it in turns to go into a special room. Inside it there was a bowl of dog food, but the owners had to tell their pets not to eat it.
In most cases the dogs were good...
But the trick was to see if they would still do as they were told if the lights were turned off.
The study showed the cheeky animals were four times more likely to be naughty - and steal the food - when the room was dark.
The researchers said this meant the dogs knew that their owners couldn't see them eating the food in the dark.
