Dogs are always up to something. They bark at themselves in the mirror while the two of you are preparing to go out, roll in the mud once you reach the park, and even keep running in their sleep after you come back home for a nap. They’re the funniest creatures.

So, to show you that it’s impossible to get tired of them, we at Bored Panda compiled the silliest dog posts we could find on the internet. Whatever day you’re having, it’s about to get (a little) better!

#1 The Tsa Dog At The Airport “Confiscated” A Ball From Someone’s Bag And Wouldn’t Give It Back.

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#2 We’ve Only Had Our Puppy For Two Weeks, But Our Chocolate Lab Is Already Worn Out..

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OK, what if your pup’s cute head tilt that you’ve never seen before, happened while your phone was out of reach? Now you want a picture. But how do you get your pet to repeat an action it hasn’t been trained to perform?

For K9s taught to “think back” on cue, you just have to ask. Turns out, dogs are capable of learning the instruction “do that again,” and can flexibly access memories of their own recent actions — cognitive abilities they were not known to possess, according to the results of a recent University at Buffalo study.

#3 Flat Tire

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#4 My Mom Took This Picture Of Our Dog And Also Doesn’t Know Memes

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#5 Nice Head Massage

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“We found that dogs could be trained to repeat specific actions on cue, and then take what they’d learned and apply it to actions they had never been asked to repeat,” the study’s corresponding author, Allison Scagel, Ph.D., who was a UB graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the time of the research, said.

“Our findings showed that they were able to apply the concept of repetition to new situations. More generally, we found evidence that dogs are capable of forming abstract concepts.”

#6 Barksy

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#7 My Dog Doesn’t Bite….he Judges

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#8 This Dog Is Sitting, Standing And Laying At The Same Time

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#9 Thought My Melting Dog Deserved To Be Here As Well

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Historically, there has been a notion that conscious awareness of past personal experiences is the exclusive domain of humans, but according to Scagel, recent research does not support that conclusion.

“Our study shows that dogs are capable of conceptualization, placing them in an expanding category of other animals that includes bottlenose dolphins and chimpanzees.”

#10 Commuter

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#11 Small Pupper Does A Big Chomp

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#12 The Determined Doggo!

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#13 How About My Derpy Boy, Looking Like A Pixar Character

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Scagel explained that the findings present new flexible training possibilities for dogs.

“Dogs can do more than learn the relationship between a person’s cue and which specific trick they should. They can understand the concept of repetition: Whatever you just did, do that again.”

“It can apply to anything they do,” she added.

#14 Woof Irl

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#15 This Is Rux. He Needs Everyone To Know This Is Not A Phase.

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#16 My Dog

#17 Woof Irl

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We often test animals on their ability to recall things in the external environment they have recently observed, such as objects, sounds, or scents. Memories of actions are different because they’re not outwardly perceivable.

Memories are entirely internal; they are purely mental representations of previous personal experiences that can be recalled in ways that might influence what the creature chooses to do in the future.

#18 Woof?irl

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#19 He’s Still Cute, Right?

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#20 Coco Biting On A Toy Lightsaber, Looks Like He’s Shooting His Laser Beam

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#21 Woof Irl

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For this study, the researchers looked at dogs’ memories of their own recently performed actions to determine if they could voluntarily think back to what they had just been up to and reproduce those actions.

Three dogs participated: Todd, a male long-haired chihuahua belonging to Scagel; and two female golden retrievers — Aspen, belonging to an acquaintance of Scagel’s, and Layla, belonging to Scagel’s co-author, Eduardo Mercado III, a UB professor of psychology.

#22 She Doesn’t Have A Snoot She Has A Snooooooooot

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#23 Woof Irl

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#24 Lazy Evening

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#25 Spotted On My Morning Walk

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Traditional dog training is cue and response — when dogs hear or see a trained cue, they respond with behavior they have associated with that cue. For a baseline, the researchers started training the dogs in that fashion, with simple cues like spinning in a circle, lying down, or walking around an object.

#26 Woof_irl

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#27 Woof_irl

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#28 Baby Shark Doo Doo Doo Doo

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#29 I Think I Caught A Ghost On Camera

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The dogs then learned a separate repeat cue (the word “again” accompanied by a hand gesture), which instructed them to reproduce the action they had just finished. To assess whether the dogs had actually learned a general concept of repeating recent actions, they were asked to repeat novel actions that they had never been asked to repeat before. And they passed the test.

“This is an important step toward a greater understanding of how other species form abstract concepts,” Scagel said. “And we’re learning that humans aren’t that cognitively unique after all.”

So if you teach your pooch how to do this, the possibilities to fill up your phone’s camera roll are endless; you’ll never miss their quirky moments again. For Bored Panda’s earlier renditions of the series, check out more hilarious dog posts here and here.

#30 Looks Like Someone In The Seat In Front Can Smell The Chips

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#31 My Husband Brought Home A Label Maker

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#32 The Same, With The Dog

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#33 Best Dinner Companion Ever

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#34 Woof Irl

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#35 Blessed_ Bananadog

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#36 Woof Irl

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#37 Hey, Can You Stop Kicking My Seat?

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#38 Woof Irl

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#39 Woof_irl

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#40 She Just Kinda Slid Down The Couch Arm That Way And Stayed

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#41 My Pup Somehow Got Only Her Lower Jaw Out Of Her Cone Of Shame. ? Don’t Worry She’s Ok, Just A Huge Doofus

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#42 Woof Irl

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#43 Woof Irl

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#44 Woof_irl

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#45 Woof_irl

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#46 Woof Irl

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#47 Woof_irl

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Horror is currently dominating the box office, with Bloody Disgusting’s own Terrifier 2 scaring up $10 million since its original release one month ago. And that’s just the start, as two other Halloween releases just smashed through big milestones at the box office.

First up, Parker Finn’s Smile has now laughed its way to $202.9 million worldwide, the film released in theaters on September 30 and legging its way through the entire Halloween season. The reported production budget for Smile was a mere $17 million, which means that Paramount Pictures has a MASSIVE hit on their hands with the buzzy original horror title.

Smile has made $99.1 million of its total here in the United States, with $103 million coming from the international box office to date. Congrats to Parker Finn and the whole team!

Another horror movie that’s still in the domestic Top 10 is David Gordon Green’s Halloween Ends, which has to date scared up $63.4 million domestically and $39.4 million internationally.

That brings the worldwide total for Halloween Ends up to $102.9 million as of this writing, and that’s with the third installment in this trilogy also being available on Peacock at home.

For the sake of comparison, Halloween Kills slashed up $133.4 million last year in theaters, with that movie also released day-and-date in theaters and on Peacock as well.

The most important thing? All three horror movies mentioned here – Terrifier 2, Smile, and Halloween Ends – are profitable, so horror wins all around this Halloween and beyond!

The only thing left to do is SMILE…

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