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 can dogs impart 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. 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.
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 unique form of communicating with other dogs. Notice how the alpha male stops the rambunctious play of the other dogs. By growling menacingly, assuming a dominant position, the leader of the pack can communicate its displeasure to the pack members that would generally show signs of being submissive.
The growl and the bared teeth is the alpha male's warning to the dogs lower in rank to behave. Butt sniffing is a form of communication distinct to dogs. Dogs that allow its rear end to be sniffed is communicating its desire to be friends with the other dog.
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. 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. The barking as well as the posture of a dog that is excited at the arrival of the master is different from the barking of a dog wanting to alert the owners to the presence of intruders.
Dogs are man's best friend and loyal companions. It would certainly be nice if dogs can talk so that the pet can give its two cents worth of opinion on the troubles of the master but since man and dog have a different ways of communicating, both would have to be content with understanding each others body language and facial expression.
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 unique form of communicating with other dogs. Notice how the alpha male stops the rambunctious play of the other dogs. By growling menacingly, assuming a dominant position, the leader of the pack can communicate its displeasure to the pack members that would generally show signs of being submissive.
The growl and the bared teeth is the alpha male's warning to the dogs lower in rank to behave. Butt sniffing is a form of communication distinct to dogs. Dogs that allow its rear end to be sniffed is communicating its desire to be friends with the other dog.
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. 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. The barking as well as the posture of a dog that is excited at the arrival of the master is different from the barking of a dog wanting to alert the owners to the presence of intruders.
Dogs are man's best friend and loyal companions. It would certainly be nice if dogs can talk so that the pet can give its two cents worth of opinion on the troubles of the master but since man and dog have a different ways of communicating, both would have to be content with understanding each others body language and facial expression.
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