August 26th is National Dog Day, a holiday designed to honor man’s best friend. To celebrate, there are local events going on around the country ranging from adoption events at local shelters to happy hours at prestigious hotels, complete with doggie champagne. What is your plan for this day? Wearing a funny cute dog t-shirt and have a whale of the time with your own dog!
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Dog lovers are affectionate. More importantly, they are generous with affection both verbally and physically. When you’re in a relationship with one, they know how to make you feel loved. In casual, everyday hugs and in big gushy strings of compliments. When you are loved by a dog lover, you’ll know it.
How can you guess the meaning of his behavior? Let’s find out.
1. Stares into your eyes
When your dog stares directly at you, he/she releases a hormone called oxytocin which is the same hormone released by moms to their babies. When your dog is staring into your eyes, it is essentially giving you a big hug.
Go ahead, try this at home but don’t have a staring contest with your puppy or he/she will know something is not right. Relax your face. Just naturally maintain eye contact during your normal routine and see how your dog responds.
Do this throughout the entire day. You may notice them become more relaxed. Or their tail may wag faster than a propeller.
2. Leaning on you
If your dog has ever been frightened or anxious you’ve probably noticed it lean on you for support, safety and security. Dogs tend to physically lean on us when they want something, but leaning is also a great sign of affection. When your dog leans on you – rest assured – he’s telling you he loves and trusts you. He is purposely seeking you out when he feels stressed.
In the same way, your dog may lean on you when you’re feeling stressed. Dogs have an innate sense when it comes to reading our behavior. Somehow, they know when we’re feeling down. Your dog may lean on you to let you know that everything will be okay.
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3. They Wag Their Tails
Tail wagging may seem like an obvious sign of love, but this behavior is more complex than you may think. A tail wag can have a lot of different meanings — and they’re not always friendly. Thankfully, when your dog gives a full-body wag with the tail held at mid-height, accompanied by other signs of positive body language, the message is pretty clear: He’s happy and excited to see you. Now, if your dog’s tail wags more to the right side of his rear, it just might be an even better sign he loves you. An Italian neuroscientist and two veterinarians discovered this by using cameras to track the tail-wag angles of 30 pet dogs as they were each shown their owner, a person they didn’t know, a cat and an unfamiliar dog. When the pups saw their owners, their tails wagged most strongly to the right side of the body.
4. They can pick up on human emotions.
Dogs are naturally skilled at something called social eavesdropping, or the use of information collected by observing interactions between others. In one study, Italian scientists invited 100 dog owners and their pets to participate. In the experiment, the dogs watched as their owners requested help and were either rudely ignored or got the help they asked for.
The overwhelming majority of the dogs whose owners didn’t receive help ignored food offered to them by the person who had disregarded their owner. Your dog is definitely on your team. Dogs are also good at reading human emotions that they pick up on subtle changes in the tone of your voice, and they can also read the expressions on our faces, according to a study in Current Biology.
5. They anticipate punishment after doing something bad.
You know the moment you step into your house that your dog has done something he’s not supposed to, and then you find the trash can in the kitchen, overturned with its contents splayed all over the floor. Your dog is hanging his head down in what you assume is guilt, as he knows he’s not supposed to get into the garbage.
According to the book Decoding Your Dog from the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists, your dog doesn’t feel guilty, but he’s learned to anticipate you yelling at him. Your dog can tell you’re upset and quite possibly angry, so they use their body posture to communicate that you should calm down. They also use the averted look, droopy ears, and downward-facing-dog pose to avoid punishment.
Buy a new funny cute Dog Shirt, take the photo with your Dog, Go walking with your Dog are some ways to celebrate the special day with your puppy.
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