Myth Busting
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Myth Busted: No, Dogs Don’t See in Black and White
For generations, people have believed that dogs see the world like an old black-and-white movie — a flat, colorless existence where everything blends into muted tones of gray. It’s a myth that has lingered for decades, passed from one owner to the next and reinforced by movies, books, and television shows. Yet modern science has proven this notion to be…
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Myth Busted: Can Your Dog Tell Time?
For decades, dog owners have sworn their pets “know when it’s dinner time” or can sense when someone is running late. But is this more than coincidence, or do dogs truly perceive time in a way we understand? Dogs’ relationship with time isn’t like ours. They don’t check watches or count hours, but mounting research suggests they can detect the…
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Myth Busted: Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?
For centuries, people have repeated one of the world’s most stubborn myths: “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” The phrase first appeared in John Fitzherbert’s 1534 treatise The Boke of Husbandry, in which he advised that “the dogge must lerne it, whan he is a whelpe… for it is harde to make an olde dogge to stoupe.” More than a…
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