Whereas every dog lab now tests the cognition of its animals while their human owners are blindfolded or asked to face away, young children are still presented with cognitive tasks while sitting on their mothers' laps.

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She still hadn't found the dog, a chubby blonde lab named Gracie, on Wednesday.

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Supposedly the science started in the 1850s when, in the lab of an English scientist, a dog that had been fed quinine bisulfate for an upset stomach urinated on a tray.

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