Science shows that dogs feel things like us. Legislation must catch up

Analysis helps what Darwin stated in 1872 – canine specific feelings in a approach recognisable to people. Governments should do extra to guard them, says Jules Howard

By Jules Howard

THIS yr marks the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Feelings in Man and Animals, the third of his main works on evolutionary principle. One in every of his chief assertions was that canine, like many different animals, specific feelings, together with worry and anger, in a approach recognisable to people. That, bluntly, they really feel issues like we do.

You’ll be forgiven for pondering that Darwin’s argument would have enhanced the welfare of canine, however change has been sluggish. In society on the time, the destiny of avenue canine improved solely marginally, and in science, canine continued to be …