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I'm Karen Hocken.

Ever get the feeling that your cat is judging you?

Meow!

Well, you're in for a surprise, because it's actually your pooch who might be viewing you with a critical eye.

That's according to a study that shows that dogs can assess human aptitude and will look toward

people who seem to know what they're doing. The work appears in the journal, behavioral processes.

Our aim was to test whether dogs are sensitive to humans' competence levels and whether they

evaluate humans on this tree.

Hitomi Chijiwa is an assistant professor at Osaka University.

If critiquing people's proficiency seems an odd job for a pub, it may not be all that far-fetched. Kainines have spent more than 10,000 years

by our sides. So, dogs are highly sensitive to human behavior. And they pay particular attention to

things like how cooperative we are. For example, our previous studies showed that dogs avoid

people who refuse to help their owner.

So, Chijiwa and her colleagues got to wondering whether dogs might also rate us in terms of our skillfulness,

particularly if those skills might come in handy for our four-footed little friends.

So they set up a simple experiment.

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