A wonderful post from Slate on why we love dogs. The idea here is dogs manipulate us using their keen sense of human body language and social interactions to inject themselves into our lives.
Quoting from the post: Pets manipulate the same instincts and responses that have evolved to facilitate human relationships, “primarily (but not exclusively) those between parent and child.”
I’m a dog person. I enjoy being manipulated by my dogs 🙂
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