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Did you know…dogs can learn the difference between smiles from blank expressions in pho­tographs of peo­ple? A March 2011 special to World Science reported dogs can learn to recognize smiles. According to the study, five trained dogs, all Lab­ra­dor Re­triev­ers, or poo­dles, were, “sig­nif­i­cantly more of­ten than ex­pected by chance, to dis­crim­i­nate their own­ers’ smil­ing faces from their blank faces.”

What our four-legged friends? Do you think our dogs smile back at us? Tell us what you think!

Until the next time,

Wendy

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