Don’t judge a look by the cower: Your dog’s guilty look can be misleading

Don’t judge a look by the cower: Your dog’s guilty look can be misleading

By Mary MacLachlan It’s a common scenario: You come home to a mess in the house —definitely dog-made —and your dog slinks towards you, head lowered, ears back, and their eyes averted. Their culpability is emanating from every expression and movement. He knows he’s done something wrong, you think to yourself. And you are annoyed because he did it anyway. The question of whether dogs can make judgments based on future outcomes and feel remorse has…