{"id":3323,"date":"2025-09-08T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/dogs-train-humans-too\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:01:20","slug":"dogs-train-humans-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/dogs-train-humans-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs train humans too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-09-08 12:01:18<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Dogs are able to teach humans new tricks.<BR><br \/>\nIt is traditionally thought that owners are responsible for training their pooches but a new study suggests that the opposite is also true.<BR><br \/>\nBoffins at Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary have found that when a dog sets off in a particular direction &#8211; many owners simply follow them subconsciously.<BR><br \/>\nSmart canines can use this to make humans head off in a different direction while out walking and even get their owners to guide them to food sources.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers recruited 117 dog owners for the study and separated them into three groups, one of whom watched a border collie walk around a V-shaped fence to grab a treat.<BR><br \/>\nMeanwhile, the second group watched a human do the same thing whilst the last set of participants were not shown anything.<BR><br \/>\nWhen asked to walk around the fence themselves, 75 per cent of those who saw the dog walk around the fence followed the identical route as the animal.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Peter Pongracz, senior author of the study, explained: &#8220;We too may have been &#8216;trained&#8217; to pay attention to what dogs do, because it helped us to work together with hunting dogs.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-09-08 12:01:18 Dogs are able to teach humans new tricks. It is traditionally thought that owners are responsible for training their pooches but a new study suggests that the opposite&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}