Thursday, September 13, 2007

$1,000 prize offered for psychic dogs

Just read that at OpenSourceScience.net, the researchers there are offering a $1,000 prize to dogs who successfully demonstrate they know when their owners are coming home.

Yes, dogs, and some animals have this acute clairvoyance that can sense when their owners are coming home. A friend of mine told me that her dog waits for her patiently just before the main door shaking its tail when she opens the door. But she has no idea for how long her dog has been waiting for her. If you are keen, you can refer to dogs that wait for owners to come home to learn more about it. It is mentioned that the dogs start their awareness some half an hour before the owner returns.

It's a very interesting read. In this experiment, the owners purposely come home at different timings to test their dogs clairvoyance power. The dogs are proven right all the time. How do they manage to do it? One of them even knows to turn on the lights for the returning owners, as can be seen from the photo.

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