Have you ever been walking down the street, only to find yourself fighting to restrain your laughter when you spy a lady who looks just like the pug she's walking? Or perhaps people are always telling you that you and your cat bear a striking resemblance to one another, though you've never been able to see it? As you'll see in the following pictures of pets and their owners, there actually is truth to the age old rumor that people tend to look like their furry little adopted friends.
As it turns out, a psychologist from Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan named Sadahiko Nakajima not only proved that people who look like their dogs and cats are not uncommon, they are actually the norm. Throughout the course of his research, Nakajima even discovered that total strangers were able to match pictures of dogs and their owners against photos of other random dogs with which they were presented.
So what is it that makes people who look like their pets so common? Researchers suspect that it’s the recognition of familiar features that subconsciously attracts people to pets who bear a resemblance to themselves. Regardless, enjoy the fruits of this random psychological phenomenon via these hysterical photos of people who look just like their pets - and pets that look like their owners!
