7 secrets behind those adorable dog eyes

The recent study published in the journal “Current Biology” found that both dogs and humans have evolved to listen for emotions when someone is communicating to them. Dogs can recognize if a person is happy or sad. They use similar brain mechanisms to process social information. That is why your dog comes over and starts cuddling up next to you.

Combined with its other heightened sense, a dog’s amazing nose gives it the ability to detect some things way before their human companions. They can sense even such dangerous illnesses like cancer or diabetes.

First and foremost, dogs see themselves as guards. That is why there are a lot of stories when a dog gives its own life in order to protect the owner. Dogs can smell fear hormones your body releases when you are scared.

Dogs are great body language readers. They watch the way you behave with other people, your breathing pattern, and your voice. By the way, your dog will pick your side no matter what.

Yes, dogs can learn their owners’ schedules. However, even if you do not stick to the schedule, the dog hears your steps and knows you are coming home.

Dogs do their best to make eye contact with their owners. Thus they can predict your actions in advance. They can even find hidden food simply by following a human gaze.

It was always interesting if they are responding to words or just the emotions in our voice. One recent study suggests it’s both. Researchers at the University of Sussex played sounds out of speakers on both sides of a dog. When dogs heard commands stripped of their emotional context, they turned their head to the right, suggesting they process verbal meaning in their left hemisphere.

When they heard the emotional sounds in the voice, but the words were jumbled, they turned to the left, suggesting they process emotional sounds on the right. These experiments show that dogs can definitely separate the meaning of words from the emotion attached. Dogs are smarter than you might think.