Really? Do you think this situation would be the norm for most dog owners? Lets say you have a large room containing a dozen caskets of recently deceased dog owners. You then let a dozen dogs belonging to the deceased owners come into the room and observe the behavior. If you were a betting man and had to make a bet on what would happen, would you say that the dogs would a) Somehow identify the caskets of their respective owners and lay down in front of the casket like what happened with this Navy SEAL. or b) do what dogs do, i.e. sniff each other, lick themselves, wander around? I would put money on the latter being the likely case for the majority of them. But does that mean the dogs and their owners did not have a connection together? No. I just think it's unlikely to happen, and of course, it doesn't make a very good tear-jerker, but that's just the way things work out sometimes.