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Lending a helping paw: Dogs will aid their crying human

  • Written by Julia Meyers-Manor, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Ripon College
I'll try to be there for you 100 percent.Chris Gladis, CC BY-ND

From Lassie to Balto, pop culture loves stories of a dog coming to a person’s rescue. Anecdotally, people experience their dogs coming to their aid every day, like when one of us found herself “trapped” by her children under a pile of pillows only to be...

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