http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/dogs-are-people-too.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

the article talks about how 'Gregory Berns a professor of neuroeconomics at Emory University' and his team did mri scans on dogs and came to the conclusion that dogs have feeling at the same level as children have, on the top a picture of a dog which suspiciously looks like belonging to the breed as our previous dog who died last year:



a few lines into the article is a link to a youtube

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do you think that dogs are people too?
i certainly do

Very interesting article and I have to agree.

Same case with pigs and cows etc. but people still eat them for some reason. Makes them cannibals then I guess.

Dogs aren't people.

having feelings doesn't make a dog a person anymore than a person having hair makes them a dog.

you are right, dogs are better than most people

english setter on the picture I think.

maybe, but that would be my third choice judging by that not very clear picture

http://www.irishdogs.ie/images/gallery/65/1177_album.jpg

very similar dog at least, what were your choice before english setter?

first:



second:

brittany spaniel

third (as said):

english setter

but the colour, angle of the picture plus the stance of the dog makes it difficult to be sure

On the first pic it's an irish setter, might be that, or at least it's probably a setter on the op's pic, either gordon, irish or english.
Well Britanny spaniel have been bred by mating with English Setters, very similar dog.

I, myself am a owner of a female english setter.

This post was edited by Lensherr on Oct 13 2013 04:12pm