Study finds 80% of dogs show 'pawness' preference like humans

Across species and millennia, the body has quietly declared its preferences — and now science has turned its attention to the paws of dogs. New Italian research confirms that roughly four in five dogs consistently favor one front paw over the other, a trait researchers call 'pawness,' echoing the laterality long observed in human hands. The finding suggests that this bias is not habit or training, but something deeper — a signature written into the nervous system itself, hinting at shared neurological architecture between humans and their oldest companions.