This morning on CTV news there was a bit on some researchers who discovered dogs can laugh. I think laugh is the wrong word for what they discovered, but it is really neat. They showed a bunch of caged dogs in the pound all barking at the same time. They played on fairly loud speakers the sound of a dog panting and all the dogs stopped barking and started to wag their tales. I tried this with Bandit. He was driving me a bit nuts this morning so I started panting. He put his paws on my knee, looked at me with lots of interest and was wagging his tale. I guess the sound of panting means you are having fun? (like after running around chasing something or playing with a ball)
Dogs can laugh?
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Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
