Question: Do dogs really have feelings like love, respect, hate? If they do shouldn't they have more advantages than they do now? because they have felling just like us...

Bethany Dearlove answered on 23 Jun 2014:

This is a really good question, and I don’t know the answer to it. It seems that dogs have very similar structures in their brain to those that produce emotions in humans. They also have hormones that work with emotional states like we do – such as oxytocin, which is involved with how we feel love and affection. However, this does not necessarily mean that they have the same emotional understanding as us, and there’s work that suggests that dogs have the emotional status of a 2 1/2 year old child. That’s a big difference in emotional capacity, and maybe explains why, as you put it, they don’t have more ‘advantages’. That being said, dogs are still very clever – think about the training guide and hearing dogs go through, for example, to be able to help people better go about their lives.