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...to start reading this article from the beginning please click on here....But the words are just a little part of obedience. Very often a dog depends more on facial mimicry and expression than on the actual words. Do the following experiment: Stand up with your back against your dog, so that it is all that way behind you and can not see your face. Stand completely still. Give the command "sit", and then "down". Sneak a peak behind you and look at your dog's reaction to the commands. With all probability, it will obey with doubt if at all. Because it didn't get the chance to see the body language they are used to when normally given the commands. Dogs depend on seeing our facial expressions, arm movement and body posture together with the words, and when they are not available they don't get enough information to understand what we say. If it obeys, you have trained your dog well, then you can try another variety. Lie down with your face to the floor and command your dog from your passive position, still without looking at the dog. Does it still obey? It is interesting to think about the fact that dogs and people communicate with each other in such a different way, and that we still coexist in a fruitful manner. So to say, conflicts between dogs and people are quite rare when you look at the numbers. Dogs are fantastic and adaptable creatures, they learn our way of communicating without trouble worth mentioning. We have huge demands for our dogs, both from society and us responsible for them. In many ways, they are not allowed to be the animals that they are anymore. Still, bite incidents are very rare compared to how many dogs there are. So we can thank dogs for that, not humans. We should in no way underestimate the four-legged creatures we choose to share our lives with.
Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism it the phrase to illustrate when we assign animals human attributes that they do not have the disposition to have. Words like jealousy, envy, insulted, sad, bad conscience and depressed have little to do in a realistic dog ownership. It is now fair to dogs to assign dogs feelings like that. In our search to understand these weird and funny animals it is easy to use notions we are familiar with, and that we use to define our own state of mind, or feelings if you will....to continue reading this article please click on here...
