Dogs can tell if you’re angry, scared, or sad

Spend any time with a dog, and it’s clear many have a remarkable ability to understand how we’re feeling. But while there are endless anecdotes of empathetic dogs coming to comfort us when we’re sad and barking happily when we’re feeling good, actual hard scientific evidence of the extent to which dogs really understand human emotion is surprisingly thin on the ground. This is because ultimately, we can never know what it’s like to be a dog—and sadly, we can&r