How do dogs communicate?
The dog's failure to verbalize what they want and what they feel has not become a hindrance to the formation of close ties between humans and dogs as both can understand each other. How do dogs communicate? 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. Anyone who have had the opportunity to live with dogs would attest to these animal's ability to make humans and animals understand what they want to convey.
A dog's method of communicating will be very apparent in a household with 2 or more dogs as one dog will grab the rank of being the leader of the pack. Dogs have a unique form of communicating with other dogs. Notice how the alpha male stops the rambunctious play of the other dogs. The alpha male will assume a dominant position, bare the teeth and let out a menacing growl that would instantly make dogs lower in rank manifest a submissive attitude by lowering the eyes and by holding the tail between the legs.
When the alpha male bares sharp teeth and growls menacingly, dogs lower in rank will know that the pack leader is displeased. Dogs have another form of communication - the butt sniffing ritual. Dogs that allow its rear end to be sniffed is communicating its desire to be friends with the other dog.
The language the dogs used as well as the body movements are obviously different from ours but through years of association, the barks, the whines and whimpers as well as the wagging tail, the erect ears and the bared teeth will allow a dog to convey feelings as well as report information to the master. An observant dog owner will have a pretty good idea what the pet wants to convey simply through the dog's facial expression, body movements and through the dog's unique verbal language. A dog that is alerting the owners to possible territory intrusion would bark in a different manner than when it barks with joy at the sight of the master.
Dogs are not only man's best friends they are also man's faithful companions. It would be super if dogs can talk so that they will be the master's confidante as well but since they cannot, we humans have to be satisfied with the silent empathy and unending affection of the pet.
A dog's method of communicating will be very apparent in a household with 2 or more dogs as one dog will grab the rank of being the leader of the pack. Dogs have a unique form of communicating with other dogs. Notice how the alpha male stops the rambunctious play of the other dogs. The alpha male will assume a dominant position, bare the teeth and let out a menacing growl that would instantly make dogs lower in rank manifest a submissive attitude by lowering the eyes and by holding the tail between the legs.
When the alpha male bares sharp teeth and growls menacingly, dogs lower in rank will know that the pack leader is displeased. Dogs have another form of communication - the butt sniffing ritual. Dogs that allow its rear end to be sniffed is communicating its desire to be friends with the other dog.
The language the dogs used as well as the body movements are obviously different from ours but through years of association, the barks, the whines and whimpers as well as the wagging tail, the erect ears and the bared teeth will allow a dog to convey feelings as well as report information to the master. An observant dog owner will have a pretty good idea what the pet wants to convey simply through the dog's facial expression, body movements and through the dog's unique verbal language. A dog that is alerting the owners to possible territory intrusion would bark in a different manner than when it barks with joy at the sight of the master.
Dogs are not only man's best friends they are also man's faithful companions. It would be super if dogs can talk so that they will be the master's confidante as well but since they cannot, we humans have to be satisfied with the silent empathy and unending affection of the pet.
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