Do you think animals have a sense of humour?

Seeing some of the things my cat does I know she has a sense of humor...so did my Petey. I also know my cat laughs at me everytime she sees me getting out of the shower...I can't blame her for that though **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

I think that my dogs have good sense of humor. They often use food for play to show me that small baking means is play time not meal time. They are happy seeing me laughing. They smile when happy. Maybe they would tell us many jokes if they would be able to talk.

Yes, my cats love to laugh at others misfortunes even if they cannot really laugh. There was a dog that was barking at my cat, and the dog did it because my cat was teasing him. My cat will walk up to other cats, and the other cats run in fear of my cat. I do not know what my cat does to make other cats run from him, but you know he is getting his kicks out of it. I know that chimps and apes can laugh because it has been seen before. I believe that animals definately have a sense of humor.

I know for a fact my cat has no sense of humor. I tell him jokes all the time and everyone else laughs but he just sits there with the same blank expression on his face.

I had a dog for 15 years and i believe he had a great personality. When i would get ready for bed and go to lay down he would jump up on the bed and get right in the middle of my pillow and grin at me. When my son would call him he would come to me and grin at him and the opposite also if i called him he would go to my son and grin at me. He had such a wonderful personality. I know if he could have talked we would have been laughing all the time. I also have two birds one is a African Grey named Baby girl I have had her since she was 2 weeks old and another which is a Red-headed mexican amazon. One will do the cat whistle and the other will say thank you. They laugh at each other and at us. I don't think it is just mocking because it usually happens when something funny or stupid happens. I think alot of times our pets personality reflects our own personality.

Of the animals that I have been familiar, the only one that I ever thought might be laughing at me was a donkey. There is one other possibility, a small pony that I was supposed to ride to school when I was 8 or 9. He would wait until he was out of sight of the house, pitch me off and run back to the house.

This is a very interesting question! I don't think they do in the same sense as we do but I do think they have a sense of being a joker or fooling around a bit every now and then. We have all seen cats tease dogs or vice versa; a dog running around like a maniac and the more we laugh at the dog the faster it goes and the crazier it gets; and I have even owned birds that teased each other so maybe in a sense this IS their own brand of humour?

If you could see my billy goat Pickles you would know they have a sense of humour. Maybe it's a simple sense of playfulness but it certainly makes me laugh. He takes advantage of situations and pushes my dog Lucy's buttons. He behaves like a brat just for the hill of it and he literally kicks up his heels with glee.

hi owlwings I was out for a long walk in tusin a few years'back and watched as black crows carried big nuts then dropped them onto the street, and waited in the trees. soon some cars came by and crushed the nuts as they drove over them. the cars left, down came the crows, picked up the s mashed nuts and flew back into the trees to eat the smashed nuts. dont tell me they were not having a ball. I could not believe it so watched and yes they would come back, drop more nuts, wait til the cars came by and ran over them, then fly down, scoop up the nuts, and land in the trees and eat the nuts. now that was what I call smart thinking on their part. lol.

Hey owlwings, yes I do believe that they have a sense of humor. My cat Star looks like he's smiling at me sometimes. When a cat purrs it means he's happy. In fact my boyfriend didn't really know anything about cats when he moved in with me and one day Star was in the bed and laying next to me purring loudly and I guess my bf never really noticed the sound before. He asked me what was that noise that Star was making and to make him stop it. I started to laugh and tell him that Star was purring because he was happy that he was laying next to me, his mama and my boyfriend said to tell him to stop making that "happy noise" and from then on he always says that poor little Star should stop making that "happy noise" whenever he purrs! And when my other cat Luna sees my bf he hisses like crazy because he doesn't like him one bit!

I never experience a animals laugh, but i saw from a film where a dogs can smile back at you when you focus at the dog. Don't know weather it's true, hope i could see it. It makes me curious.

I have a funny story about a cat. My husband is in construction and found a litter of cats under their trailer. He brought one home and we had to feed it with a bottle, it was very young. We were hoping since it was so young, it would be a little tamer. But, unfortunately it wasn't. I have three young kids and it would continuously stalk and scratch for no reason. My 5 year old would just be sitting there petting it and then all the sudden it would just scratch her and run. One day the cat was on top of our couch and my daughter walked by and the cat jumped on her, freaked her out. Then my daughter ran into the kitchen and the cat followed her and sat down in front of her, looking up at my daughter. I said "Look honey, Izzy is trying to say sorry" My daughter bent down saying "Oh Izzy, it's ok" and as soon as she bent over to pet the cat, she jumped in her face. That was calculating, that cat knew what she was doing. That is sick cat humor there!!

yup antrhopomorphising is an issue witha a lot of people who keep pets as emotional support systems, dogs an most probably cats are anthropomorphised all the time, but the fun of it is that these people hardly care about such stuff, its the animal handlers who are in the business of it who really make hullabaloo out of it ofcourse besides the animal behavior psychoplogists n the likes.. for the topic at hand, yes without anthropomorphising, I can definately say from my experience with dogs and monkeys that they understand teasing and making fun, and as the starter of this discussion says laughing..dogs to some extents and monkeys exceedingly so, I have observed this trait in a monkey an Indian common langaur. Though the pack lived in close contact with humans it was essentially wild. I have seen it get animated and hysterical after it thought it had done something to poke fun at me. And this is just one of the experiences in my dealing with these creatures.

I think so. My horse's eyes said she thought it was funny when I'd head butt her back after she head butted me, asking for a horse treat.

Do you think animals have a sense of humor? yes, i think, when i watch the funny's animals on TV, so many think animals we can do and make me Laughed, yes like a dog they much have learned from they master or owner.

I think so, because sometimes when I am playing with my puppy and dog, they easily get its time to play. They let themselves hide with furniture and when i move, they came running to me. Sometimes my dogs are playing or teasing my cats, like they don't want them to pass inside our house or room. I don't know if they can laugh but i feel when they are truely happy.

LOL ... I really don't know. They do look as if they are smiling sometimes. And I have seen my cat look amused. But apart from the hyena, I wonder if any animal has a belly laugh. I guess they do have a sense of humor though; otherwise, they wouldn't smile, would they? Cheers and happy mylotting

They both laugh and cry. My classmate's puppy lost his mother. Then the puppy's eyes are often swimming. Also, they dream, the laugh. When u look at them, they look at u in a same way. They are not that smart.But they are sentient

We used to have an Amazon parrot that would laugh at jokes or humorous remarks that somebody would make. I always thought he was just imitating us until the day my brother was telling the story of the day he (the parrot) bit my brother's ex-girlfriend (whom the bird absolutely did not like), and as my brother told the story the bird sat on his perch and snickered!!! His obvious pleasure left no room for doubt that he indeed had his own very mischievous sense of humor!

Yea i do think they have a sense of humour because my cat gets really exited and playful when i laugh like he understands me in some way its kind of like he knows thats a happy noise and i think he likes to tease me to lol.