Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/29/watch-hilarious-dog-keeps-making-scary-faces-in-the-mirror.html
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Oh gosh, I love doing that too.
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“Damn, I’m good looking!”
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Dogs don’t pass the mirror test, so it’s probably thinking “There’s an aggressive dog making mean faces at me over there, I better make mean faces back at it!”
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No judgement here, social distancing is hard on the soul. You do what you gotta do to get through it doggo.
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Dog’s probably thinking “I’m a yellow lab. I can’t pull this off.”
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Checking for spinach?
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Ok, there’s just under eleven more months to practice. I need to make a face that says, “Don’t try to put that ugly Christmas sweater on me ever again!”
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when scent is added the “picture” changes. In my experience dogs vary quite a bit in intelligence. Many of them respond to images in mirrors, others largely ignore them. One of my niece’s dogs was fascinated by mirrors and would use reflective surfaces to direct light…she also had a makeup mirror she’d carry around that she would use to deflect sunlight into your eyes as a joke. She had a pretty good understanding of incidence/reflection at the level of dogs innate understanding of trajectory.
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Cats >> dogs. But we love them all.
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Me, not so much. I end up looking like John Turturro in O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
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Wish the caption had been “This dog is practicing faces in the mirror and I am giving credit to the owner/original poster of this video.”
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Ok, then let’s try something else, anything will do.
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Have you ever observed humans, cause they are pretty f’ing stupid. I’ll take any dog of any i.q. over the vast majority of humans. So say I.
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Wow, it’s working on me big fella.
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ya, they all have their strengths 
One thing I have noted with dogs is that when the dog and I are both presented with an event that requires assessment and extrapolation, and it is within a dog’s area of need, then they are at least as quick and capable as I am. Don’t know if that says more about my or the dog’s abilities though…
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that’s actually among the area’s of expertise I had in mind…I used to hike a lot with my dogs, usually hounds, and if the dog says “that’s bear shit” I’m not gonna argue .
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