Learning to communicate with your dog is essential to foster a balanced and positive relationship with him. In addition, it lets you know how you feel at all times and improves our relationship with it. Often, poor communication between dogs and humans can lead to undesirable behaviors, mainly due to ignorance about nonverbal communication, i.e. body communication.
In this peritoAnimal article we will help you understand in general what the language of the dog is and the quiet signs it transmits to us. Read on to learn how to communicate better with your dog and understand what it says:
- The beginning of the puppy’s communicative learning begins from the birth of life and lasts approximately to three months of life.
- During this time.
- The dog learns a language that will accompany him throughout his life.
- It begins with his mother and siblings.
- Who teach him to orient himself properly.
The most important learning period is the socialization of the puppy, which usually lasts between three weeks and three months. Early separation of the litter puppy can have serious consequences, such as the absence of social behaviors. In addition, there can be many other consequences, such as bites, fear, stress, among others.
Therefore, not all dogs are able to recognize and interpret the signals that we are going to show them. More specific cases, such as dogs abandoned and separated early from litter, are typical cases that may not understand this language.
Before you start talking about the body language of dogs, it is essential to know what our communication with the dog should look like, take note:
Yawning, as a sign of calm, is usually accompanied by other signs, such as ears backwards, turning your head, or looking side by side. This sign usually indicates that the dog is upset or doesn’t understand what you’re asking.
Warning: this signal should not be confused with a yawn when waking, for example.
Except when they’ve finished drinking water, licking their snout is another common sign of calm. This usually indicates that the dog “does not look for problems” and may be accompanied by a descent of the head or a tilt of the head to one side. The dog asks for space or a break in training.
We generally associate licking with the dog’s affection and affection for humans and, in some cases, this can mean it, especially if we reinforce this behavior in a positive way. Despite this, an excited tongue may indicate that the dog is stressed and tries to relieve tension by licking the caregiver, who knows we love.
When you lick someone out of nervousness and not affection, it usually accompanies other signs of calm, such as the ears back, the rotation of the head and the nervous movements.
It’s common that when you approach your dog to kiss him or put something next to him, the dog turns his head. This attitude means that you feel uncomfortable and tell us to respect your personal space. In this case, it may show other signs such as sighing, putting your ears back on, or licking. The dog can also use this signal with other dogs to indicate that it is quiet and that it does not look for problems.
This is a very positive sign that tells us that our dog is looking for our attention or affection. This behavior was born in the stage when the dog was still a puppy and looked for his mother’s breasts pushing with his snout.
This sign of calm usually indicates the welfare and safety of the dog. His origin also comes from the stage where he was a puppy, when he was with his mother and felt very comfortable. That’s a great sign.
If your dog feels the ground before showing up to another dog, he must be very happy as he is a sign of calm and a polite dog. Try to communicate that you are not looking for problems or invading the other dog’s personal space.
When dogs walk and then feel walking in circles, it is a very positive sign of calm between them. They greet each other in a cordial and positive way.
This position can have different meanings
This usually happens when we take our dog to a new park and do not know the dogs that frequent it. It takes a quiet stance and allows others to feel it without problem. It is a sign and calm that indicate that the newcomer is polite and allows others to know him.
Remember that when a dog is completely silent because we scream or punish, it is not submissive. This attitude means that he is powerless, because he does not know what to do or where to hide for the punishment to end. Remember that this attitude is very negative and that we should not scold our dogs, let alone violently or aggressively.
This sign indicates that the dog is very stressed and tries to release the tension by shaking it completely. Usually, after this attitude, the dog leaves.
In this case, the lying dog is subject to the other dog, either out of fear or for any other reason. It is a cordial posture, the dog does not look for problems.
On the other hand, when the dog shows us the belly is not a sign of submission, but of calm. In this case, the dog tries to convey to us that he has full confidence in us and asks us to caress him in the belly.
Urinating is certainly a sign of striking territory, but they can also be used with other dogs to make themselves known. She wants the other dogs to know her identity and pee so she can feel it later.
It is important to note that there are multiple signs of calm in dogs that sometimes go completely unnoticed. Some of them are:
It is very important to know how to identify the scary behaviors in our dog. This will help us interpret your emotions so that we can act correctly. Here are some of the postures that show the dog is afraid:
Agora vamos lhe mostrar as posições corporais de um cachorro confiante nele próprio, muito diferentes das que mencionamos anteriormente:
It can be defined as a repetitive movement for no apparent reason that the dog performs without specific stimuli, usually to relieve stress. It’s like a ritual, repetitive and lasting in time. If not corrected, this type of behavior tends to become chronic and becomes very difficult to treat. This may be due to illness, behavioral problems, or both. We usually see dogs that hunt the tail compulsively, but there are many other stereotypes in dogs.
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