{"id":2939,"date":"2014-12-31T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T04:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2024-07-11T23:36:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T03:36:03","slug":"guilty-or-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/guilty-or-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Or Not Guilty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen your dog with a guilty look on his face?<br \/>\nI\u2019m sure most of you have seen this video that is doing the rounds of social media, emails etc right now\u2026 where the Labrador has a \u201cguilty look\u201d.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/files\/2014\/12\/Sad-Dog-on-Hardwood-Floor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2940\" src=\"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/files\/2014\/12\/Sad-Dog-on-Hardwood-Floor-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Sad-Dog-on-Hardwood-Floor\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/files\/2014\/12\/Sad-Dog-on-Hardwood-Floor-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/files\/2014\/12\/Sad-Dog-on-Hardwood-Floor-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/files\/2014\/12\/Sad-Dog-on-Hardwood-Floor-250x156.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/files\/2014\/12\/Sad-Dog-on-Hardwood-Floor.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt, this dog is trying to express himself to the owner. But is it guilt?<\/p>\n<p>Dogs will show what we humans interpret as guilt, even when they have done nothing wrong. A study was conducted where owners left their dogs in a room and were told that their dogs had stolen a forbidden treat. When the owners returned to their dogs, the dogs looked guilty \u2013 whether or not they had stolen the treat. Their behaviour was as a response to the owner, not to the act of stealing a treat. More here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5QzmpZ6bccc\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>The dog in this video is more than likely guilty of eating the treats. The owner will know this from past experience. And he is a Labrador! Labradors love their food! Anyway they can get it!!<\/p>\n<p>Dogs will continue to steal forbidden food as the pay off \u2013 the reward of the food \u2013 more than makes up for any \u201cguilty feelings\u201d afterwards. And they are dogs!!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this \u201cgrinning\u201d look on a dog is also interpreted as a smile. ..<\/p>\n<p>Here is a street dog whom I met in India. She approached me, sat down and \u201csmiled\u201d. Look at how narrow her eyes are.<\/p>\n<p>In behavioural terms, these gestures are appeasement ones. Animals do them to keep us appeased, to calm us, to soothe us. They do it in direct response to our behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>As a scientist we are always told not to be anthropomorphic, putting human interpretations of feelings onto animals. But I enjoy when people do this. It means that we have empathy and we ascribe similar feeling to our pets.<\/p>\n<p>Dogs are especially good at appeasement looks. After living with us for 20,000 years, they have worked out what makes us tick.<\/p>\n<p>Now cats on the other hand\u2026 well has anyone ever seen a guilty look on a cat\u2019s face?!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen your dog with a guilty look on his face? I\u2019m sure most of you have seen this video that is doing the rounds of social media, emails etc right now\u2026 where the Labrador has a \u201cguilty look\u201d. There is no doubt, this dog is trying to express himself to the owner&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/guilty-or-not-guilty\/\"><b>Read More <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5543,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitmeanssit.com\/dog-training-mu\/columbus-ohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}