You Look like Your Pet!

If you’ve seen the animated movie 101 Dalmatians and saw Cruella Deville who look like her dogs. You must have been wondering if you must have been like Cruella over the years having lived with your best friend pets. Do you sometimes wonder while staring at the mirror that you are becoming to look like your pet? Chances are, you are! A recent study by psychologists reveals that there are really some surprisingly correlation and resemblances between the pets and their human owners.
An experiment has been conducted by a team of psychologists in Japan matching photos of their owners and their dogs. Astonishingly, facial features have bizarrely matched. It’s like pairing up a puzzle base on the dogs as to their rightful owners from a stack of random photos. Some of the photos are even deliberately altered to add up to the mix-matching challenge. During the process most who participated distinguishes the eyes as the highly resembling factor between dogs and their respective owners. Although the study has no logical scientific connection except for the works of our subconscious minds on randomly looking between photos. The psychologists are as stumped and quizzical about the similarities like the rest of us.
Some mentioned that being ‘soulmates’ is a factor. As for me I look at it as because we, dog owners and parents have bestowed our attention to our dog buddies that we sometimes tend to make them wear and look like how we are. We sometimes dress with the same print patterns, we sometimes do our haircut similar to how out pets look. All because we are proud owners and companions of our pets and flaunt it to the world that we are alike even though only in the way we dress or does our haircut.
How ‘bout you? Do you look like your pets? Or maybe your pets look like you?

I wonder... if this is somehow related to microbiome.

That's an amusing concept there. There are many people at our dog park who are dead ringers for their pups absolutely!
With some you know it's intentional. I'm thinking of one young woman-Maybe Thai, long dark glossy hair, beautiful features, gold jewelry, city chic in head to toe black. Her dog has long shining dark fur, black leather collar with gold embellishments.
Do I look like Sophie? Graying, somewhat anxious eyes, long legs...yeah maybe I do. My hubby was always stocky in his youth and Callie looks like a canine Sports Center commentator. So yes maybe we do pick dogs that resemble us in some way.

I wish. My dog is far more beautiful than me.

You & me both Brenda!

I don't think so sir. The experiment was simply based on plain similarities. Or maybe we can call it plain haunches? Below is a sample result of the experiment:



There's really not much connection but only the works of our subconcious mind in connecting images to a subject which in this case is their dog.

I do think so too! In our effort to make our dog buddies become more adorable, we tried to dress them like ours. I remember a parade/event where the event organizer would urge all dog owners to dress up their buddies with the same clothing pattern like we must wear both floral shirts for a summer event or same color of shirts, etc. it is really us pet parents who wanted to be everything in synchronicity.

Oh dear G-d, I rilly want to still be a cat person deep down...but yes I've just started Callie's Halloween costume, the top is peach colored to preserve an increment of his manhood. Then there is the white tutu and wings. I have the pink top, tutu and wings I surrender, I've crossed to the crazy dog person side.

Welcome to my world!

Ah right, I thought the study involved just handing out a bunch of dog photos and face photos and seeing how many were matched correctly