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11/12/2008 7:25 PM
Jere Murray wrote: > There are an awful lot of folks writing advice about dogs and training them on the > 'net who don't have a glimmer about any of this, Clem. > > I'm sure you know that. > > Jere > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Glimmer of precisely what might I ask? There are many interactions between people and dogs that I don't understand. How does a dog 'know' that we are in a good mood or when we are happy? I'm well aware of a number of cues that signal to a dog that a human is upset or angry but I've missed some (but not all) of the signals signifying happiness to dogs. I have studied many instances of canine misinterpretation of human behaviors since they shed light on how dogs come to correctly understand human body language and auditory signals. Some of this is training related learning (not training itself) but much is simply absorbed from social contact but precisely how is speculative at best. I am certain that much of what dogs "understand" about human behavior isn't learned but is quite probably innate, I am equally certain that some of what humans "understand" about dogs is also innate but it's enormously difficult to separate innate stuff from learned stuff. Correlating age distributed behaviors of dogs with age distributed behaviors of humans takes a lot of time and plenty of notebooks to document. I don't think I have enough time to come to any solid overall conclusions in this area. Cj

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