Do Dogs Hold Grudges?

We really don't know, but they're surely not unconditional "love muffins."
Photo by Isabel Vittrup-Pallier

"Yesterday, at my local dog park, I said that my dog, Tommy, holds grudges, but other people told me I'm wrong, that it's all about me and my reading into the situations, rather than about Tommy, and that dogs don't hold grudges."

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