text: do animals have a sense of humour? as an example, would a dog dig up another dog's bone and bury it elsewhere as a joke? dogs don't think that way. you're projecting human thought patterns and behaviours onto animals, and that's simply not how their mind works. i read a great article about a month ago (i forget where) about an animal psychologist talking about this sort of thing, how a lot of problems with pets are caused by thinking about them in human terms. for example, one woman's dog started causing havok when she got a full-time job and left him home in the house. she thought he was angry at her, but that's not something dogs could even comprehend. no, it was rather that the dog was simply very confused and didn't understand what was going on, and figuring this out saved the dog from having to be put down (he almost bit someone).  basically, no. chimpanzees and other such evolutionary cousins might, but your common house pets cannot think that way.