Nature may not have gifted dogs with the ability to speak but the human-dog association that spanned thousands of years have allowed humans to understand the dog's form of communication. How can dogs make humans and other animals understand what they want to say? Dogs are truly intelligent animals as they can make humans and other animals understand what they want to say by using body movements and a unique form of vocalization. Dog owners would attest to the fact that man's best friend really do have the ability to show their feelings and to convey what they mean to their human friends.
Dogs are pack animals and in a household with two or three dogs, the dominant dog will show leadership over the other dogs lower in rank. Dogs have a distinctive method of communicating with each other. Notice how the alpha male stops the rambunctious play of the other dogs. All the alpha male has to do is to assume an intimidating position, bare the teeth and growl and dogs lower in rank will show signs of being submissive by lowering the eyes and holding the tail between the legs.
The growl and the bared teeth is the alpha male's warning to the dogs lower in rank to behave. Dogs have another form of communication - the butt sniffing ritual. When a dog meets another dog, the butt sniffing ritual is used as a form of communication that allows a dog to accept or to reject the other.
Dogs cannot speak in the same manner that we humans cannot bark or whine and yet through long years of association, we humans have finally understood what the wagging tail, the whining and the barking, the erect ear and the furtive glances of the eyes mean. Dogs are believed to be highly attuned to the feeling of their master so that understanding humans would be easy for our canine friends but humans have a higher level of intelligence than dogs so that in spite of the communication barrier, humans can understand dogs by observing its body movements and facial expression. For instance the barking and the body movement of the dog excited at the arrival of the master would be different from the barking when the dog is trying to protect the territory from an intruder.
Dogs are man's best friend and loyal companions. Dogs cannot talk but these are intelligent animals and they would know how to get their message across and humans have come to understand the pet by learning the meaning of the dog's vocalization and body movements.
Dogs are pack animals and in a household with two or three dogs, the dominant dog will show leadership over the other dogs lower in rank. Dogs have a distinctive method of communicating with each other. Notice how the alpha male stops the rambunctious play of the other dogs. All the alpha male has to do is to assume an intimidating position, bare the teeth and growl and dogs lower in rank will show signs of being submissive by lowering the eyes and holding the tail between the legs.
The growl and the bared teeth is the alpha male's warning to the dogs lower in rank to behave. Dogs have another form of communication - the butt sniffing ritual. When a dog meets another dog, the butt sniffing ritual is used as a form of communication that allows a dog to accept or to reject the other.
Dogs cannot speak in the same manner that we humans cannot bark or whine and yet through long years of association, we humans have finally understood what the wagging tail, the whining and the barking, the erect ear and the furtive glances of the eyes mean. Dogs are believed to be highly attuned to the feeling of their master so that understanding humans would be easy for our canine friends but humans have a higher level of intelligence than dogs so that in spite of the communication barrier, humans can understand dogs by observing its body movements and facial expression. For instance the barking and the body movement of the dog excited at the arrival of the master would be different from the barking when the dog is trying to protect the territory from an intruder.
Dogs are man's best friend and loyal companions. Dogs cannot talk but these are intelligent animals and they would know how to get their message across and humans have come to understand the pet by learning the meaning of the dog's vocalization and body movements.
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