Dogs are Proven to Act Like Humans!

Summary: On April 2, 2012, a woman named Holly Miller and a couple other “colleagues” tried to see if dogs would do riskier things when they lost self control like humans do. An example of a human who looses self control is, joining gangs, or jays walking like teens do. To see if this would happen to dogs, Miller took ten dogs and made them sit still for ten minutes or go into a cage where they can walk around. afterwards. The dogs were put into a building with a barking growling caged dog with many rooms around him. Most dogs chose to walk up to the growling dog which obviously was the riskier choice. 59% of the dogs that sat still for ten minutes walked up to the growling dog while only 49% of the dogs that were put in a cage where they could walk around, walked up to the growling dog. This concluded in Millers experiment, that dogs like humans, do riskier things when they loose self control. Impact: This discovery can help us understand more on how humans’ and animals’ think and act in certain situations. The more we understand this stuff too, the better we can cure an illness or help people through problems and rough times. Critique: I think learning about stuff that can be proven as factual is cool. This experiment really didn’t need to be done because hanging around a dog all the time makes me figure things out like how my dog does some stupid things when I know he is not cautious. If people are willing enough to do this (like rich people will), people should teach their dog protection skills like people teach their children! One more comment on this, we need to stop doing studies that make us think animals are more like humans every day or we will all become Vegan!!! Other than the cannibals hahaha. Oh that’s a good way though to help endangered species to not die off though!!! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402093940.htm