[haberman]

That remark surprised me too. I remember reading about a study about dogs vs. wolves, and that dogs were more inclined to look to a human when they needed help solving a problem. They seem to have an innate predisposition towards human faces also, which seems plausible given their hundreds of years of breeding for human companionship.

[psalminen]

Actually, canine domestication started thousands of years ago[0]

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-wolves-rea...

[Symmetry]

Yeah, and dogs can use their gaze to indicate to a human where the problem or whatever is though dogs can't read each other's gaze the way a human can.