Wednesday Reading Meme

[shipperx]

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What Am I Currently Reading?

How Dogs Love Us - A Neuroscientist Decodes the Canine Brain, by Gregory Berns

Basically it's a researcher who decided to place dogs in an MRI to map their brains, much as we've done with humans.  Turns out they light up the same centers that we associate with emotion in human brains which leads to the question of whether dogs (or mammals in general) feel 'love' and 'affection' beyond "FOOD!!!  Provider of FOOD!!!"
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Me: As an animal lover, I've always believed this to be true.  Those little furry creatures (cats and dogs) have opinions and preferences and jealousies.  It's perfectly obvious to anyone who has lived closely with them.

Comments

[jerusha]

I never realized how true this was until we had two cats. They're just so different from each other! And they each have their own personality and way of interacting with the world.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Those little furry creatures (cats and dogs) have opinions and preferences and jealousies. It's perfectly obvious to anyone who has lived closely with them.

Absolutely! And you can get two dogs of the same breed and have significant differences in temperament, etc.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

They definitely do. They clearly make choices and have preferences and if someone doesn't realize this they usually aren't looking closely enough.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

True. They aren't toys. They are their own little beings.