diff --git a/lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb b/lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb
index 20dd157..fb9269c 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb
@@ -133,7 +133,9 @@ module CouchRest
             fetch_view(name, opts, &block)
           else
             begin
-              view = fetch_view name, opts.merge({:include_docs => true}), &block
+              # auto load mentioned documents unless asked differently
+              opts.merge({:include_docs => true}) unless opts.has_key?(:include_docs)
+              view = fetch_view name, opts, &block
               view['rows'].collect{|r|new(r['doc'])} if view['rows']
             rescue
               # fallback for old versions of couchdb that don't