The researchers’ experiments lend support to the old stories: Most dogs, if they can, will rescue their owners.The ASU study appears in the journal PLOS ONE.Co-author Clive Wynne, from the ASU Canine Science Collaboratory, comments on the significance of the paper, saying, “What’s fascinating about this study is that it shows that dogs really care about their people.” “Even without training, many dogs will try and rescue people who appear to be in distress — and when they fail, we can still see how upset they are.”“The results from the control tests indicate that dogs who fail to rescue their people are unable to understand what to do — it’s not that they don’t care about their people.”– Clive WynneThe ASU study had two overarching goals:.