Canine Corner  The human-animal bond  Do Dogs Really Feel Shame
and Guilt?  Do dogs really feel shame and guilt, or is that
"look" something else?  dog canine pet emotion fear guilt shame
punishment scold bad Photo from Creative Commons People are
always drawing my attention to popular sites online which are
full of photos of dogs looking guilty and ashamed. These sites,
such as and as well as many videos posted on sites like YouTube,
frequently have dogs wearing signs which are humorously written
"confessions," and the dogs are often surrounded by the remnants
of their misbehavior. To the average person there is little
doubt that in many of the photos, the dogs look as if they were
guilty or ashamed of having eaten something that they shouldn't
have or destroyed something or misbehaved in some other manner.
The first dog shaming site was started in August 2012 by Pascale
Lemire, a resident of Vancouver, British Columbia. It remains
the most popular of such sites and has received more than 58
million page vi