Can you read your dog’s mood?

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!
 
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 :D
 
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 :D
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. 😂
 
My little lad recently turned 2. We have our fair share of rebellious teenager moments :rofl:
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