“The difficult challenge is figuring out why they do it.”

The big Lassie spectaculars are the ones that hog the spotlight, but I think most animals know they save their humans a little bit every day.posted by chavenet at 8:49 AM on June 3 [14 favorites] Dog, upon seeing their human drowning: “Dammit! I wasn’t done teaching it how to throw sticks.”posted by Thorzdad at 9:42 AM on June 3 [7 favorites] I’m not sure this was really a great test of how much dogs want to help when their owners are in distress. Nearly as many dogs opened the door to the box when their owners were just calmly reading in the box. Dogs were slightly more likely to want to open it when their owners were yelling for help, but there are a lot of possible reasons for that. They might have interpreted the
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