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I love my dog and I know most people believe their dogs love them, but I don't think dogs are capable of "love" and I really don't believe that my dog actually cares about me.
He does care. He cares because you feed it. He cares because you give it water. He cares because your house is his burrow. He cares because he needs you. Exactly the same way a human would. Love doesn't exist. It is just a way to call the whole thing.
This may be true for a few dogs. It doesn't explain the strange affinity between some animals and a random visitor who hasn't done anything for them. I've had the same feral cats I've never fed greet me every time I passed by. They also show signs of jealousy when you give more attention to the other.
Dogs feel pain and dogs show when they are angry and fearful. What makes you think they are incapable of love?
I'm sure if you treat your dog well, he loves you.
I've always had dogs and one dog in particular never moved from my bedside for almost 2 years when I couldn't walk after a car accident.
There is a famous example of the dog that lay on his master's grave and refused to eat, until it also died :o(
It does but a thing's affections can only go as deep as its intelligence.
"Love" is a human emotion. Dogs do NOT "love," they do whatever is necessary to be fed. If a dog happens to have an owner that wants them to jump around, wag their tails and act like a fool, that's what the dog does because they realize that pleasing a human is what makes that human dole out the food.
i have the same problem with my dog, all she ever wants from me is food.
It'll love you as long as you keep feeding it(meaning it just wants your food) It will love you like the word love means but it wants the food more.
Animals are living things with feelings, so they are capable of feeling love. They love you if you take care of them and give them love.
Your dog cares greatly you are part of the pack after all just remember to treat it good...
Maybe he doesn't love you but dogs usually do care about their owners.
After all you feed them, entertain them and take em for walkies.
That's a good question, I'm not really sure if any other animals can love.
Dogs will risk their lives for their owners on some occasions. A dog doesn't know the concept of love, but they do have certain feelings for masters that could be described as caring in some ways. Dogs are also a pack animal I think, and they could be obeying their instincts by protecting the ones that are part of their pack.
So I guess, maybe.
If a dog risking its life for its owner means it loves him/her, then wouldn't that mean a dog NOT doing this does not love its owner?
I think they could still love their owner, that's just one act out of quite a few that they could do with love perhaps.
For example: dogs do get lonely/sad when you leave them alone for a while usually, and when you return, they get excited. This isn't all dogs, but it happens with many and that could be considered loving behavior.