{"id":511,"date":"2021-07-01T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=511"},"modified":"2021-07-08T05:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T05:02:47","slug":"puppies-understand-human-cues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/puppies-understand-human-cues\/","title":{"rendered":"Pup&#8217;s looking at you, kid: Puppies can understand human cues from very young age"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-512\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a style=\"color: #0000cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/pup-s-looking-you-kid-puppies-can-understand-human-cues-n1269241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-512 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/puppies-understand.jpeg\" alt=\"Puppies understand human cues\" width=\"298\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canine Companions for Independence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;While dogs can eventually learn to listen to their owners, some pups seem to be born with an innate ability to understand humans, research published Thursday in the journal Current Biology suggests.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At just 8 weeks old, some of the puppies in the study showed a startling willingness to lock eyes with humans they didn&#8217;t know and to take command cues, such as directions pointed out with a finger&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/pup-s-looking-you-kid-puppies-can-understand-human-cues-n1269241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While dogs can eventually learn to listen to their owners, some pups seem to be born with an innate ability to understand humans, research published Thursday in the journal Current Biology suggests. At just 8 weeks old, some of the puppies in the study showed a startling willingness to lock eyes with humans they didn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}