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Originally Posted by chattiesmom  Jeannie, you are so right, and intuitive. I absolutely agree with you. I want to add, that dogs communicate on levels that most humans don't really understand. Body language, scent, and visual are vital to dog communication which I believe gives them a "one-up" on humans who primarily use verbal communication.
I got a better understanding of non verbal communication through training the wild mustangs we adoped. They were very tuned in to their environment and a change in body posture and eye contact communicated volumes. I believe the same holds true for our canine friends, except on a slightly different level since horses are prey and dogs are predators. |
Thanks. Just passing on what I've read and experienced for anyone who wants to consider it; but you are absolutely right about dogs communicating on levels we humans only try to understand and they most often read situations correctly, as they use far more senses than we do when encountering other humans or animals. Their powerful sense of smell is so potent it alone can sense vital information coming from any other dog, size it up for what it really is inside, its weakness, prowess, leadership/subservience, sexual history, state of health, libido, etc. They also can use that same sense, along with others, to read us down to before our last thought, it seems! Sometimes Tibbe seems to know what I'm thinking before I do, already in the act of reacting as I think of it! Spooky and wonderful, all at once, the analytics these little guys we love have. And they study/analyze us endlessly, like Einstein did mathematical theory, so they often know us better than we know ourselves and often correctly predict what we are about to do next. Makes dogs such fun to have around!
