Canines know how to alter their facial expressions to manipulate human emotions
At least not news to any dog breeder.
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Not news to ANYONE who spends lots of time around dogs.
Canines are creatures steeped in body language.
A few hundred generations of living with each other would do that. Although we never did catch on to the butt sniffy
…so do politicians, and they do butt sniffies BIG TIME!
No?
You mean just like leftists know how to get media attention?
All the dachshunds that my parents had were experts at this. Whenever we were eating, they’d come along and give us a classic “I’m a poor hungry dog” look. It was hard to resist after looking into their sad brown eyes.
My doggies head tilt and ear erection … always speaks to me in human emotion …
… the human emotion of … WTH!!!???
one might say I am now ‘on to’ Truman’s tricks.
otoh, one could also more accurately say he was ‘on to’ MY tricks right from the start…..
I have a form of autism that pretty much robs me of fluency in body language.
he fills the breech, aggressive responses by him to a stranger are NOT ignored.
I just sent 100 bucks to a wildlife rehab organization. NOT WWF by the way.
Dogs also look at people the same way people look at people apparently, and they apparently don’t do this with other dogs: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dogs-and-people-bond-through-eye-contact/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3354028/Dogs-can-read-emotion-in-human-faces.html
Well, they have been with us for a long time, and in a very close relationship.
My daughter’s Golden, used to be a master of the eyebrow tricks. We called him Jo-Jo the Boy faced dog…he is sadly missed (cancer, taken far too soon at 8 yo. — which should be a call to arms for dog breeders: dogs deserve better than to be bred into extinction by foolish concepts resulting in genetic issues).
The “boy faced dog” … HA! … I know EXACTLY what you mean … my whole family still mourns the loss of our beloved Bernese Mt. Dog “Josie” (ht Steely Dan) … whenever Josie came home, we’d break out the hats and hooters … she had the heart-melting eyebrow thing down cold … without EVER moving her head off the cool hardwood floor in her favorite frog-splayed posture. If you’ve ever seen a Bernese … you know exactly what that looks like
I have met a few. Nice dogs. Including one with a very morbid, but funny story concerning it and the next door neighbor’s pet rabbit…or dead pet rabbit (no, the Bern, being a sweetheart did not kill the pet rabbit, merely dug it up and brought the corpse home…which prompted his family to go and buy a replacement bunny, which in turn confused the heck out of the neighbors that there was a live bunny, looking startlingly similar to old bunny, in the recently vacated bunny hutch and an excavated, empty bunny grave in their flower garden).
I must have some dog genes. I howl at the TV when I hear Trudeau speak and see his annoying expressions. I also(and I know this will annoy most of you) do the same when Trump is on TV.
That and a sense of humour. When our pup was being trained not to chew furniture he would wait until we were watching, saunter up to the corner of the couch, look at us, open his mouth, and when he could see we were getting ready to scold, give the couch a lick and then run twice around the coffee table with this cute grin on his face like he was laughing at the joke!
Are you talking about U.S. senators?
The last dachshund that my parents had was adopted a few weeks after my father died. The little guy’s new family allowed me to have him stay at the house for a few days whenever I was in town and wanted to see him.
Whenever he was brought over, his “Mommy” would bring along a bag of toys for him. At first, I kept them on top of his cage, but, no matter what I did, he always grabbed it and managed to find his way in, pulling out whatever he wanted to play fetch with at the time.
Eventually, I put that bag on top of the microwave oven, well out of his reach. Since he couldn’t get at it, he would sit in front of that machine and look longingly at the bag. Then he’d turn his head and look at me. A few seconds later, he would look at the bag again and repeated the process for several minutes.
It was a subtle way of telling me that he wanted to play and, I’m sure, it also was a way of making me feel guilty for, as he probably thought, neglecting him.
Smart dog…..
Lol! So true.
Many funny comments above.
Our last house dog, a blend of poodle, border collie, and mongrel had a fantastic smile when happy and a real expressive sheepish look when she knew she had transgressed. She was not allowed into the living room and stayed by the doorway. One day after coming home we found dog hair on the living room couch and then we knew why the sheepish face every time we came home.
What a іnformation оf un-ambiguity ɑnd preserveness of precuous experience сoncerning unpredicted feelings.
Not news to ANYONE who spends lots of time around dogs.
Canines are creatures steeped in body language.
A few hundred generations of living with each other would do that. Although we never did catch on to the butt sniffy
…so do politicians, and they do butt sniffies BIG TIME!
No?
You mean just like leftists know how to get media attention?
All the dachshunds that my parents had were experts at this. Whenever we were eating, they’d come along and give us a classic “I’m a poor hungry dog” look. It was hard to resist after looking into their sad brown eyes.
My doggies head tilt and ear erection … always speaks to me in human emotion …
… the human emotion of … WTH!!!???
one might say I am now ‘on to’ Truman’s tricks.
otoh, one could also more accurately say he was ‘on to’ MY tricks right from the start…..
I have a form of autism that pretty much robs me of fluency in body language.
he fills the breech, aggressive responses by him to a stranger are NOT ignored.
I just sent 100 bucks to a wildlife rehab organization. NOT WWF by the way.
Dogs also look at people the same way people look at people apparently, and they apparently don’t do this with other dogs:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dogs-and-people-bond-through-eye-contact/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3354028/Dogs-can-read-emotion-in-human-faces.html
Well, they have been with us for a long time, and in a very close relationship.
My daughter’s Golden, used to be a master of the eyebrow tricks. We called him Jo-Jo the Boy faced dog…he is sadly missed (cancer, taken far too soon at 8 yo. — which should be a call to arms for dog breeders: dogs deserve better than to be bred into extinction by foolish concepts resulting in genetic issues).
The “boy faced dog” … HA! … I know EXACTLY what you mean … my whole family still mourns the loss of our beloved Bernese Mt. Dog “Josie” (ht Steely Dan) … whenever Josie came home, we’d break out the hats and hooters … she had the heart-melting eyebrow thing down cold … without EVER moving her head off the cool hardwood floor in her favorite frog-splayed posture. If you’ve ever seen a Bernese … you know exactly what that looks like
…and it isn’t just dogs:
http://www.animalcognition.org/2016/07/02/horse-communication-humans/
http://www.medicaldaily.com/horses-understand-human-emotions-distinguish-between-happy-and-angry-facial-372908
If one considers the similarities between humans, dogs, and horses (on the surface, this seems silly, but if one really thinks about it, not so much), then no…this should surprise no one. And any dog or horse handler should be thinking this is news (although a scientific acknowledgement of the depth of it all might perhaps be a new thing).
I have met a few. Nice dogs. Including one with a very morbid, but funny story concerning it and the next door neighbor’s pet rabbit…or dead pet rabbit (no, the Bern, being a sweetheart did not kill the pet rabbit, merely dug it up and brought the corpse home…which prompted his family to go and buy a replacement bunny, which in turn confused the heck out of the neighbors that there was a live bunny, looking startlingly similar to old bunny, in the recently vacated bunny hutch and an excavated, empty bunny grave in their flower garden).
I must have some dog genes. I howl at the TV when I hear Trudeau speak and see his annoying expressions. I also(and I know this will annoy most of you) do the same when Trump is on TV.
That and a sense of humour. When our pup was being trained not to chew furniture he would wait until we were watching, saunter up to the corner of the couch, look at us, open his mouth, and when he could see we were getting ready to scold, give the couch a lick and then run twice around the coffee table with this cute grin on his face like he was laughing at the joke!
Are you talking about U.S. senators?
The last dachshund that my parents had was adopted a few weeks after my father died. The little guy’s new family allowed me to have him stay at the house for a few days whenever I was in town and wanted to see him.
Whenever he was brought over, his “Mommy” would bring along a bag of toys for him. At first, I kept them on top of his cage, but, no matter what I did, he always grabbed it and managed to find his way in, pulling out whatever he wanted to play fetch with at the time.
Eventually, I put that bag on top of the microwave oven, well out of his reach. Since he couldn’t get at it, he would sit in front of that machine and look longingly at the bag. Then he’d turn his head and look at me. A few seconds later, he would look at the bag again and repeated the process for several minutes.
It was a subtle way of telling me that he wanted to play and, I’m sure, it also was a way of making me feel guilty for, as he probably thought, neglecting him.
Smart dog…..
Lol! So true.
Many funny comments above.
Our last house dog, a blend of poodle, border collie, and mongrel had a fantastic smile when happy and a real expressive sheepish look when she knew she had transgressed. She was not allowed into the living room and stayed by the doorway. One day after coming home we found dog hair on the living room couch and then we knew why the sheepish face every time we came home.
What a іnformation оf un-ambiguity ɑnd preserveness of precuous experience сoncerning unpredicted feelings.