A dog is a dog, and a human is a human. Although a dog has always strived to become people’s friend during the evolutionary process, we should not mistake it for this: a dog is an animal that shares a common language with humans.
Because, if we think this way, we can easily impose our own habits and methods on them, and they can only afford them silently if they don't like these practices.
++. Talking to dogs
Humans are animals that communicate with language, but dogs are not. People subconsciously think (hope) that dogs will understand their own words, but they don't.
Although they can obey some specific commands such as "sit down" and "handshake"-some dog breeds can even "understand" hundreds of words, but they don't know the true meaning of these words. What they are good at is actually in us. I didn't even realize that I understood our body language before. So, try spending a day with dogs in silence to understand how well they understand our body language.
++. Hug a dog
What a warm and touching thing to hold a furry dog in your arms. But they don't think so. As animals that cannot complete the hug without arms, they have never embraced this link in their evolutionary history.
In the world of dogs, putting the front legs or front paws on the back of another dog means domination and conquest. Therefore, no matter what your original intentions, dogs will treat hugs as threats, but they There is no such strong reaction (a lot of children are bitten by dogs, in fact, this is the reason).
Remember, when dogs show that their bodies become stiff, their ears are closed back, their lips are licked, their teeth are clenched, their heads are tilted back, and eye contact is avoided, it is time for them to feel uncomfortable.
++. Slap their head or face
If someone slaps your head with their hands, how would you feel? Is it different for dogs? This is why the parents of the person in charge will teach their children to caress the dog's back gently and tenderly instead of reaching out to scratch the dog's face. The reason is simple, so that the dog will not attack the child.
++. Go straight to them and look into their eyes
When a stranger stares at your eyes and walks towards you, how do your sweat pores feel? In the animal world, eye contact is often one of the means to establish one's dominance, and sometimes it is also a threat.
Therefore, when you stare at a dog with infinite compassion and love in your heart, the dog will either look away or wagging its tail to show obedience, or it will bark and leaned down to attack.
++. Going out for a walk does not give them a chance to discover the world.
dogs use their sense of smell to explore the world. The devotion of a dog frantically smelling it with his nose under a tree is no less than that of us watching the sunset on the beach.
For them, taking them to a world full of all kinds of "olfactory" temptations but not allowing them to explore and discover, and can only follow the owner behind them, is definitely the most "desirable" thing Up. Therefore, you might as well take your dog occasionally to some places you have never been to, and let it enjoy a different kind of "olfactory meal."
Actually, there are many practices that we don’t realize that make dogs feel uncomfortable, such as not playing with them, or doing boring pranks because they are fun (such as barking at them, pulling the dog’s tail, teasing the other side of the glass)的狗), but if you can sum it up in one sentence, it is: really understand them and love them.
