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Cute? These eyebrow-raising dogs are master manipulators of the human heart | Hannah Jane Parkinson

Scientists have found what makes dogs so adorable, and those puppy eyes work for me every time
‘They get you from both ends: the wagging tails, the doleful eyes.’ A two-week-old dapple dachshund puppy. Photograph: Matt Dayka/Alamy

In a bit of news that, unusually for these times, doesn’t make one want to hunker down underground never to resurface, a study has been released about the adorableness of dogs. Everyone loves an animal study. One of my recent favourites was reported with the headline: which I presume was commissioned and carried out by cats.

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