“Michael Roy and Nicholas Christenfeld, psychologists from the University of California, San Diego, conducted a study that […] showed that judges were able to match photos of purebred dogs with their owners in about two thirds of the cases (they didn’t know the dogs or the owners).”
Swiss photographer Sebastian Magnani has taken things to the next step with Underdogs, a thought-provoking photography project in which he manipulates images of dogs to appear as if they’re wearing their owners’ clothes, and then places the animal portraits alongside shots of the humans.