Can you read your dog’s mood?

[gwand]

Maybe not!

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-misreading-dogs-emotions.html

 

[GaryE]

The next question is, can you read the moods of friends, lovers or strangers? It's not a skill we can take for granted, and a lot of people are very weak on the empathy front. Reading moods across species is amazing when we're accurate, but a lot of smart people can't even read people.

If I try to read the mood of tetras after watching propaganda news from the US, I think they're all full of hate and aggression and dreams of killing me. If I fish watch after realistic stuff, I think they're easy going shoalers with no interest in me at all!

 

[Back in the fold]

Anybody should surely be able to gauge the mood of a dog . Dogs are terrible at hiding emotions .

 

[gwand]

Some humans are too.

 

[seangee]

Anybody should surely be able to gauge the mood of a dog . Dogs are terrible at hiding emotions .

I agree. Techinically the topic title is not the same as the research linked.
Can I read my dog's mood? Absolutely.
Can I reliably assess the mood of someone else's dog based purely on a video? Not neccessarily

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

 

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I love Inspector Clouseau ! Peter Sellers cracks me up .

 

[Airwreck]

I agree. Techinically the topic title is not the same as the research linked.
Can I read my dog's mood? Absolutely.
Can I reliably assess the mood of someone else's dog based purely on a video? Not neccessarily

You are so correct.
The research was flawed. Trying to read a dogs emotion that you don't know or just a pic doesn't work.

I currently have two doggos and I know when their happy or upset. I really know one dog mood when he goes running down the cane road and I try to recall him. He turns gives me the paw and keeps going.

Rebellious teenager.

 

[seangee]

My little lad recently turned 2. We have our fair share of rebellious teenager moments