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Shaun of the Dead was on last night on ITV and during it, one of the characters (I forget which one, I was on the Guinness) posed the theory that “Dogs can not look up”…

(… oh, I remember now, it was Ed who said they can’t - Shaun says they can… see, in this video here:)

Well this, of course, sparked off a bit of debate between myself and the missus last night and again this morning, where we used our dog (her name is ‘Sasha’, nickname ‘Bonzo’ - she’s pictured here, guarding the dishwasher before it was installed) in experiments and I came to the conclusion that:

… at least that’s my theory anyway - and I’ve added it to the answer on WikiAnswers.

I had to go and google it though and it seems we’re far from the only ones to have the debate. There’s been a flurry of activity on this single blog post about the subject for nearly four years now, and a guy on this thread on the Spaced-Out.org forum seems to have posted proof in the form of a photo of a dog actually looking up (although my theory still stands - the dog isn’t looking STRAIGHT up ).

I’m sure there are other animals that cause such debate … the humble pig, for example comes under scrutiny here.

Jeez,… you’d think I’d have something better to talk/blog about or debate on my day off!