“Dogs ultimately want to please their owners,” says Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist from Emory University in Atlanta. Your dog understands you and tries to reply in its own way to make you happy. So, if you constantly talk to your doggy and consider yourself more like a dog parent than a dog owner, you are not a weirdo. And if science says so, we gotta go with it!

At Bright Side, we thought that you’d like to learn more about this research and here are the main things you’ll want to know about your future conversations with your furry friends.

Pet dogs can distinguish emotional expressions in human faces.

Another thing found was that it is more difficult for them to differentiate between a sad and an angry face, but they had an immediate response to happy faces, which they recognized much easier in the photos. Our doggos love to see us happy, it’s official! And there is actually more proof for that.

More research proved that their ultimate goal is to please us.

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Another research study showed that dogs understand and react to certain common words that we use, and it’s not just because they’ve been taught to do this, but because they sense their owners’ want them to get the command right, so they are trying to accomplish this for us. Dogs really want to please their owners, and maybe also receive some treats, as neuroscientist Gregory Berns says.

Do you have a pet? Share your cute selfies with your best friends with us. We’d love to see how right this research is!

Please note: This article was updated in March 2022 to correct source material and factual inaccuracies.