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Do dogs have a sense of humor?

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14y ago

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No dogs do not laugh.

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It depends on how you define "laugh." Dogs have been recorded making a breathy pant that they make only in the presence of someone (animate, living) they have positive interactions with, and while playing. If the sound is recorded and played back for another dog, that dog will exhibit play behavior (play bowing, for example). It is, in other words, a sound associated with fun and play.

They also have a wide grin, often with the tongue hanging out, made in pleasant situations (getting belly rubbed by a friend, for example).

Do they have jokes, find things funny? We don't know. We can't say that they do or don't. We can say that the same areas of the brain "light up" in scans in both humans and dogs (say, when seeing a familiar face with pleasant associations).

Their emotional lives are probably similar to ours, but not identical.

So the accurate answer is a combination of "we don't know" and "it depends."

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Wagging their tails is the same as giving a big smile or showing delight, and might sometimes be interpreted loosely as a laugh.

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It all depends on the tone you say it. You can be telling your dog you love them, but saying it in a mean voice, all they understand it that they are being punished by the sound of your voice.

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They do not have a sense of humor

They can't think in the way that humans do... if it's barking when you and friends or family are laughing at something, it's probably at not going included, as ours does.... (hug, he barks, laugh, he barks, leave him in the house and exit, he barks... lol)

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Oh but they do laugh. You have to look at the body language. While it is not an actual laugh like humans, it is almost the same. Watch a dog carefully after he or she does something funny sneaky to their human, they do laugh afterwards. Watch the face and eyes and body carefully, you will see it.

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Laugh: I don't know

Cry: I don't care

Seriously though, I don't know if they can laugh...

And the whimper, not cry

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Although dogs have their version of an open-mouthed smile, they are not known to have a sense of humor.

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