When greeting an unfamiliar dog, many people default to “Hi, boy!” Why do we tend to think of dogs as male, and do the same biases apply to cats? Here's what researchers found.
Informal observation suggests that people are likely to presume that an unfamiliar dog is male.
One of my grandchildren ran up to me. He was very excited to tell me something. He had been watching one of the cable TV channels which had been highlighting a"Dog Week." They were showing various films with characters who were dogs. They even included old television episodes starring Lassie that had caught my grandson's"You should've seen him," he told me,"he jumped over a car and into an open window and he knocked this huge bad guy down.
My grandson looked at me in a very confused manner, but then plowed on,"Yeah, but he really was amazing!"
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