In a nutshell Humans tend to judge a dog’s emotions based on the surrounding context rather than the dog’s actual behavior, often leading to misinterpretations of their emotional state. People with more experience with dogs were surprisingly more likely to miss negative emotional cues,

Dogs are some of our closest companions – but are we really all that in tune with how they’re feeling? We might like to think we are, but a new study suggests that actually, we’re often misunderstanding our fluffy besties completely.