Leila Martinez, 8, knows her dog Barry loves her. Martinez said Barry understands her words and she knows what he likes because he gets excited around his favorite toys. He also knows when Leila needs comforted.맥스카지노�He comforts me when I맥스카지노�m sad, because my mom comforts me when I맥스카지노�m sad...and he wants me to be fine, and he loves me,맥스카지노� Leila said.맥스카지노�He has his own moods. Different dogs have their own moods,맥스카지노� she said.Her sister, Nadia, 10, said Barry sits on their laps to tell them he loves them.맥스카지노�He talks with his movement and I can know what he wants and what he맥스카지노�s saying,맥스카지노� Nadia said. 맥스카지노�I just point to what I want him to do.맥스카지노�According to Kathy Shae, owner of Paws 맥스카지노�N Effect Canine Training Center, dogs like Barry really are communicating with their owners and people can understand if they observe.맥스카지노�Dogs communicate in a variety of ways, but mostly through body language, and by their body language, I mean everything,맥스카지노� Shae said.맥스카지노�Starting from their ears going right down to the tip of their tail, their general body stature, how they wag their tail, all of that communicates and they맥스카지노�re communicating with us all the time,맥스카지노� Shae said. 맥스카지노�We as humans just don맥스카지노�t know because we are a verbal species. We need to stop and listen to our dogs by observing them.맥스카지노�Angie Johnston, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale working at the university맥스카지노�s Canine Cognition Center, provided a glimpse into the canine mind Saturday with a special presentation in honor of Lunarfest and the Chinese Year of the Dog. In her talk, which Shae, Nadia and Leila attended, Johnston shed light on what dogs are thinking and how they are able to communicate with people.맥스카지노�People love their dogs and want to know what they맥스카지노�re thinking, but we can맥스카지노�t ask them,맥스카지노� Johnston said. 맥스카지노�The only way we can find out what they맥스카지노�re thinking is by getting these different studies to try to get inside their head.맥스카지노�By presenting dogs with simple games, researchers at the center learn more about how dogs solve problems and perceive the world, she said. All their studies involve simple problem-solving games that they play with the dogs, and the canine volunteers receive a diploma for participating.The dog맥스카지노�s relationship with humans began long ago. They're descendants of a species similar to wolves.About 14,000 years ago, they began going into human camps for food, where they gradually became more comfortable around humans, which Johnston said called self-domestication. 맥스카지노�When you see the same hormone released in dogs and families that are released in humans and infants, it suggests that some really similar things are going on,맥스카지노� she said. 맥스카지노�So, I think dogs do love us. It맥스카지노�s something dogs have developed and as they have lived with us, it has grown into true love." Shae said dogs don맥스카지노�t just have love for the people in their lives, but empathy, which is seen in therapy dogs such as Boone, a half-Labrador, half-Great Dane mix. He맥스카지노�s a certified therapy dog and service dog in training who works with people in hospice and an Alzheimer맥스카지노�s care facility.맥스카지노�Dogs let people express themselves in ways that no other beings do,맥스카지노� Boone맥스카지노�s owner, Kay Codish, said. 맥스카지노�They let people open up. He allows people to connect with him.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�It맥스카지노�s intuitive for them, it맥스카지노�s nonverbal and it맥스카지노�s empathetic in its purest sense,맥스카지노� Shae said. 맥스카지노�Historically humans and dogs have been partnered for tens of thousands of years, and of the 20,000-plus species on earth, dogs and humans have had a unique relationship."맥스카지노�There맥스카지노�s some connection there that맥스카지노�s incredibly, incredibly deep. I think we맥스카지노�ve lost empathy and they맥스카지노�ve gained empathy in an evolutionary sense, and that맥스카지노�s why we맥스카지노�re partnered.맥스카지노�Studies at the Canine Cognition Center explore what dogs know about the physical and social world. Johnston맥스카지노�s work at Yale is aimed at exploring the potential evolutionary origins of teaching and social learning by investigating whether or not canine populations learn from others in the same way humans do.