"My name is Dug. I have just met you, and I love you"
Posted on 06/21/2018 6:16:37 AM PDT by Heartlander
A dog's bark is only a ruff means of communication. Instead, we should be looking at its wiggles and squirms.
Jumping up. Rolling over. Lifting paws.
It’s all the doggie behavior that makes them so endearing.
But they’re actually trying to talk to us.
Researchers from the University of Salford in England have been attempting to figure out what man's best friend has been trying to tell us all these years. Their results have been published in the science journal Animal Cognition.
They’ve identified some 47 different potential gestures they use in an attempt to communicate.
They’ve managed to “translate” 19 of them.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
-—dogs-—the a$$ kissers of the animal world-—(hope I don’t get banned for this)
IF poodles were included in the study then the results are biased in favor of cats.
If you’ve spent more than 10 minutes with a dog in your life, you KNOW they’re trying to communicate with you on a regular basis. When I’ve been gone for a few days, and I come back home, my Basset practically does back flips, she’s so happy to see me. She also tells me when she wants to go outside and when she thinks she deserves a treat. Belle is also my alarm clock. :)
Cats? They don’t give a rat’s rump about you, LOL!
(I’ve been owned by both, many times over!)
Does aloofness count as intelligence?
has to be a dog...never seen a cat tree raccoon, bear, cougar, bay or catch a pig, decoy a coyote..i could go on and on
I like to imagine that my relationship with my creator is a sort of form of my dog’s relationship with me.
BTW, proof that the dog is man’s best friend:
Lock your dog in your car’s trunk for two hours, then lock your wife in your car’s trunk for two hours. In both cases, when you open the trunk, which one is glad to see you? :-D
Dogs: “You feed me, you play with me, you shower me with love! You must be God!”
Cats: “You feed me, you play with me, you shower me with love! I must be God!”
The single thing cats are smart about is that they adhere to this one rule:
It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
I never liked poodles. However, My wife and I got a maltipoo 11 years ago and I love that dog. But the thing that is amazing is how ridiculously smart that guy is. He has a vocabulary of around 40 words and makes what he needs very clear. In fact, his adopted slow witted sister picks up on some of them due to his example. She’s a Golden Retriever.
Dogs are smart enough to have become allies with the planet’s apex predators. That’s pretty smart.
It seems dogs have about 530 million neurons calculating their behavior, as opposed to 250 million in cats.
“I believe the absolute number of neurons an animal has, especially in the cerebral cortex, determines the richness of their internal mental state and their ability to predict what is about to happen in their environment based on past experience,” neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel from Vanderbilt University says.
...if Neuron count established intelligence, I know a lot of human outliers
Nothing here that tells when a pit bull is going to bite you. But maybe that’s just a random statistic when unprovoked.
Dog Sneeze = Yes, affirmative, I agree, etc..............
A cat has three tails.
After my Dad died, my Mom got a Pekingese to keep her company. She had a maid who would come in once a week to help her out, and that lady swore the dog was just going to start talking to her one day.
The stupidest dog I’ve ever owned was a Lab / Golden Retriever mix....................
My cat has convinced my dog that sniffing butts is bad, which really confuses my dog when she is around other dogs. She just keeps moving her butt away while looking really conflicted, like
“no, stop that, sniffing butts is bad!”
“why?”
“...I don’t know, it just is!”
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