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I married into a family of dog lovers, this cannot help but influence one's intellectual life for better or worse. So naturally when I want to devise a quantum mechanical thought experiment, rather like Schrödinger's Cat, my thoughts turn to a dog. However, my daughters would never forgive me if harm should ever come to this imaginary dog. Hence the challenge to design an experiment whereby the dog is guaranteed to survive unscathed (unlike Schrödinger's Cat who leaves the experiment with only 8.5 lives left). Given a mind contorted by thinking about undo, history and the like, it is not surprising that the experiment is reflexive, an apparatus that not only acts quantum mechanically, but also knows itself to be quantum mechanical. In fact, the experiment with Charm the quantum dog is only one of a series of experiments probing quantum events, human observers and the observation apparatus itself. The crucial question is whether wave function collapse (and hence the end of time symmetric unitary evolution) is a property of sentient observers or a property of the nature of observational apparatus. Some of these experiments are simply thought experiments, but others move towards scenarios that could be examined empirically or theoretically. Before looking at these new experiments in detail, we'll recap on Schrödinger's cat and the twin slits experiment.