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Why Dogs and Humans Love Each Other More Than Anyone Else
Time ^ | July 20, 2018 | Jeffrey Kluger

Posted on 07/21/2018 5:26:43 AM PDT by C19fan

You speak dog better than you think you do. You may not be fluent; that would require actually being a dog. But if you went to live in a dogs-only world, you’d be pretty good at understanding what they’re saying. You can tell a nervous yip from a menacing growl, a bark that says hello from a bark that says get lost. You can read the body language that says happy, that says sad, that says tired, that says scared, that says Please, please, please play with me right now!

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dogs; psychology
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Hard to believe my Bichon is descended from a wolf. Proof of devolution. :)
1 posted on 07/21/2018 5:26:43 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Dogs are the best!


2 posted on 07/21/2018 5:29:23 AM PDT by GnuThere
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This article about dogs has a lot of emotional sillyness in it.

It could have been so much better.

The bit about understanding dog was decent.


3 posted on 07/21/2018 5:33:33 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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I have two grandsons (same daughter) who couldn't be more different.

The older one is like a dog-- he loves you unconditionally. The younger one is like a cat-- he makes you work to earn his affection.

4 posted on 07/21/2018 5:35:10 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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Does a French poodle and a German Sheppard speak the same language?


5 posted on 07/21/2018 5:38:50 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
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To: GnuThere

As said before: “I wish I was half as good as my dogs think I am.”


6 posted on 07/21/2018 5:43:05 AM PDT by Meadow Muffin
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In an ad below the story they ask what your dogs favorite toy is. I have 2 dogs, a 6 pound poodle who loves a toy hedge hog, and a 60 pound catahoula his favorite is a singing shark. What’s your dogs favorite?


7 posted on 07/21/2018 5:43:38 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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That’s funny.


8 posted on 07/21/2018 5:45:41 AM PDT by GnuThere
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I agree; it was not what I expected.


9 posted on 07/21/2018 5:46:34 AM PDT by GnuThere
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Oui, ja. Si, nein.


10 posted on 07/21/2018 5:51:04 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: C19fan

Nobody loves a human more than my cat loves me.


11 posted on 07/21/2018 5:52:31 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Retvet

My little mutts favorite toy is any rabbit stupid enough to wander into our back yard.


12 posted on 07/21/2018 5:59:51 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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A hunk of orange and green fabric that used to be a squeaky carrot before he tore it apart. He picks it up and fiercely shakes it, tosses it and shakes it some more. I don’t have the heart to throw it out. He has other toys but he always plays with that one, the vanquished carrot .


13 posted on 07/21/2018 6:06:31 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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Dogs know that you will feed them when alive and when you drop dead they will still ah... get fed.


14 posted on 07/21/2018 6:12:04 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: EQAndyBuzz

They have to learn one-another’s “language”!

LOL!


15 posted on 07/21/2018 6:12:24 AM PDT by Does so (No mention of "Brown Shirts" on this page?)
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As said before: “I wish I was half as good as my dogs think I am.”

You'll have other dogs—BUT you're the only one in his life.

16 posted on 07/21/2018 6:14:24 AM PDT by Does so (No mention of "Brown Shirts" on this page?)
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Hard to believe my Bichon is descended from a wolf. Proof of devolution. :)

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Selection of juvenile traits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox


17 posted on 07/21/2018 6:15:06 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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"Quora" says that's not true.

That said, some will eat you while you're alive!

18 posted on 07/21/2018 6:16:02 AM PDT by Does so (No mention of "Brown Shirts" on this page?)
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To: C19fan
These are mine: Frankie, Joey (Rhodesian Ridgebacks) and Bongo Fury (Mini Bull Terrier)

They have great vocabularies. Their ability to learn never ceases to amaze me.

19 posted on 07/21/2018 6:18:43 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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My little one year old Black Lab is my buddy. I’m way more fond of that little guy than a whole lot of people I’ve known.


20 posted on 07/21/2018 6:21:57 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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