The dog is sitting on a pavement, looking out onto the street. As the camera gets closer to the door, the dog is later shown looking back with sad-looking eyes ... "The sad puppy-eyed look ...

When a dog stares at you with big, sad, puppy dog eyes, it's easy to imagine that this adorable look is meant specifically to melt your heart (and score some treats). But new research shows that ...

The Dog Closing His Eyes Halfway is an image macro meme and TikTok trend of an elderly greying brown Labrador Retriever, his eyes half closed as he faces the setting sun. The image is accompanied ...

The communicative power of the sad-puppy eye muscles seems “potentially more an ancestral trait rather than something that’s evolved as part of this dog-human relationship.” C.L. Sexton et al.

If you've ever fallen for the old 'puppy dog eyes' trick, don't feel bad ... a facial movement humans produce when they are sad, potentially eliciting a nurturing response from humans." ...

“Puppy-dog eyes didn’t just evolve for us ... world when it found that the two muscles responsible for creating the sad–sweet puppy-dog stare are pronounced in several domestic breeds ...

Arno Meintjes via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED Puppy-dog eyes are irresistible. Many dogs have mastered this iconic, sad-sweet expression, which they use to look up at their human owners ...