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Dogs do get jealous Have you ever wondered if your dog gets jealous when you are giving attention to another dog or person? Well a study has shown that they do simulate the jealousy behavior, which is related to schadenfreude(Yes, Dogs), a symptom found in toddlers. They study used a stuffed toy dog and a lantern to give attention to versus their dog. The dogs displayed jealousy by snapping at the object and trying to get in between the object and the owner. My little dog will get jealous if my boyfriend is playing with cat and not paying attention to her, so she will squeeze herself in between the two of them so the attention can switch to her. The dogs were getting more jealous of the stuffed animals because they thought they were real. “86% of the dogs sniffed the anal region of the toy dog during the experiment or post-experiment phases.”(Yes, Dogs) The jealousy was always stronger with what appeared to be another dog than just an object; these results support to the hypothesis that jealousy has some “primordial” form that exists in human infants and in at least one other social species besides humans.(Yes, Dogs)

"Yes, Dogs Really Can Feel Jealous." Seriously Science. Kalmbach Publishing Co., 29 July 2014.

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