Do dogs have feelings?

If you live with a dog you just know when it’s happy or miserable, don’t you? Of course you do, write Jan Hoole and Daniel Allen. Even the scientific community, now admits that dogs have emotions – even if scientists can’t directly measure what they are experiencing.

People have had a close bond with domesticated dogs for centuries. In his 1764 Dictionnaire philosophique, Voltaire observed: “It seems that nature has given the dog to man for his defence and for his pleasure. Of all the animals it is the most faithful: it is the best friend man can have.”