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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 do dogs communicate? 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. Similar to wolves in the wild, the dominant dog that takes the position of the alpha male can restore order in the pack when the pack members are being unruly. All the alpha male has to do is to assume an intimidating position, bare the teeth and growl and dogs lower in rank will show signs of being submissive by lowering the eyes and holding the tail between the legs.
The bared teeth and the threatening growl of the pack leader will be enough to warn other dogs in the pack. When meeting people, humans shake each other’s hand, dogs sniff each other’s butt as a form of communication. Dogs that allow its rear end to be sniffed is communicating its desire to be friends with the other dog.
The language the dogs used as well as the body movements are obviously different from ours but through years of association, the barks, the whines and whimpers as well as the wagging tail, the erect ears and the bared teeth will allow a dog to convey feelings as well as report information to the master. Its true, dogs and humans have different ways of communicating but a patient and discerning pet owner will understand what the pet needs and what the pet want to convey simply by understanding the body movements as well as the facial expression of the dog. 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.
Apart from being man’s best friends, dogs are also man’s most loyal companions. Dogs cannot talk but these are intelligent animals and they would know how to get their message across and humans have come to understand the pet by learning the meaning of the dog’s vocalization and body movements.
