If you have a dog please read !!

Dogs are also aware of themselves: a study Contrary to the premise that the mirror is a vehicle for self-recognition, this study shows that dogs are recognized by smell. Conscience is a topic that has always intrigued the human being, it is not a minor issue, because it is the ability to realize its own existence and other things. In consciousness, linked enormously to the ability to self-perceive, self-recognition is essential, which implies that we are capable of knowing that what we see or feel is us.

Numerous studies have been done with animals; Many, like chimpanzees, are capable of recognizing themselves in the mirror and this speaks of self-recognition as individuals. In other cases it has been observed that some dolphins and ants are able to do so. In the case of dogs these do not usually call attention to their image in front of the mirror, however the researcher Roberto Cazzolla Gatti warns that this indicator is poorly focused since they are not a visual species.

The canines are an olfactory species. From this sense is that they are able to demonstrate many of its qualities, and according to an experiment by Cazzolla, with him is through the sense by which they have the ability to self-recognize. Cazolla has made a study from urinary traces of dogs. Samples of urine from four dogs are placed at the same time. In all cases, they paid more attention to the urine of the others than to their own. The above shows that they are able to recognize their own urine and therefore pay more attention to the other in a kind of curiosity: this experiment is a sign of a self-recognition of them. ...