Posted on 01/01/2016 7:11:33 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
I hope my tax dollars weren’t wasted on this ‘research’.
Until it's a dog in a purse. She seems to have an innate understanding that purse dogs are just wrong.
Wish I could post a picture of my pup up, but it’s impossible with my iPhone right now. Anyway that’s a good looking dog, my pup is sleeping on his ottoman while we watch the Rosebowl and a Hwakeyes win.
They don’t have words, exactly, though they do utter meaningful vocalizations, but every move they make has meaning. I often wonder if we have any idea of the multitude of ways in which animals communicate with each other, especially social animals.
It’s been said that if you could suddenly smell as
well as a dog you’d go insane.
Good looking boy. Mine looks like that but more blackish
spots. What a joy he is. “Shorty” is a knight of the Hound
table and very funny too.
“He guards the sleep of his pauper master as though
he were a prince...”
I could have told them that. If the slightest glimpse of a dog appears on TV, my Maltese is off the couch like a rocket to chase it down and bark at it. She thinks the TV is a window to the side yard, and it’s her job to scare away all of those giraffes and elephants walking around out there. :)
My dog completely ignores other dogs. Does not even acknowledge other dogs.
My two maltepoos think puppy dogs are things that other people have..they don’t think they ARE dogs. They’ll come running to see puppy dogs on tv too -dog shows or commercials. Had a Sheltie who seriously believed he was one of the kids. Waited on school bus stops and wanted to get on. He even carried his own pumpkin and trick or treated with the neighborhood kids
If you raise them like kids/people thats how they behave. Some breeds ARE smarter than others.
Laughed right out loud!!! Goood One! Happy New Year.
Dogs may have a limited ability to form a few concepts, but it is not their means of knowledge or survival.
Regal lol. My dog Toby, the Chicago Chiweenie, is a clown lol.
One of my grandogs is a pit / mountain cur mix (rescue of course). About 70 pounds. Sweet and very well behaved. Very people oriented.
She pays little or no attention to other dogs as long as they are decent sized or larger.
She goes nuts when she sees a little dog, just like when she sees a squirrel, cat, or other small animal. We theorize that she considers the very small dogs as prey animals because of size. She may in fact see them as dogs, but below a certain size, they are fair game as far as she is concerned. Obviously, she is only allowed to go after squirrels. Which is something to see as she is blindingly fast.
My daughter’s Ridgeback is like that, pays no attention, even if they are barking at him
Except when he is leashed and they are not restrained (leash or fence). Then he sees them as a threat to him and the human with him, he goes on full alert. According to my daughter, this is normal behavior.
Agree.
Dogs are hyper sensitive to body language and use it themselves to convey their feelings and wants. My dog first looks at me and then at the box of dog biscuits or door - he also begs a lot and does this while he's begging. He can tell a dog/cat/squirrel/small child from quite a distances and reacts to each differently. He can tell familiar dogs from a strange dog at a distance and familiar vehicles from unfamiliar ones driving past the house.
I leave the door slightly ajar so he can open it with his paw and go outside when he wants. He'll usually find something to bark at. If it's really important like a new cat, strange dog or other animal, or someone pulling into the drive way, he comes running into the house all excited to get me - and he will keep doing this until I go and check out whatever it is.
Dogs know important sounds from not so important ones, like a dog on TV or one outside, yet he reacts to the sound of the door bell or car horn every time. And my dog has this eye blink thing he does - like 3 eye blinks while looking straight at me. When I blink back three times, an indignant facial expression that comes over him tells me he considers me a really "dumb" human, with much left to learn about communicating.
Couple his large verbal vocabulary with body language and we can usually understand each other just fine.
[[Yup, dogs check out other dogs and they also sniff each other’s scent upon meeting.]]
mY THEORY IS THAT THEY AREN’T ACTUALLY SNIFFING SCENT GLANDS BUT RATHER SNIFFIGN TO SEE IF THE OTHER DOG SAT IN FOOD- dOGS ARE DRIVEN BY FOOD- I kid of ocurse
Definitely interesting.
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