A dog lifts its leg or squats, and other dogs rush over to investigate. Why?
To release themselves.
The traditional interpretation is that dogs investigate other dogs’ eliminations because they are assaying status and relative ranks. But the real reason has to do with the nature of emotion and animal consciousness. Because animal consciousness is composed of [...]
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Natural Dog Training Why Dogs Do What They Do:
Why Do Dogs Investigate the Eliminations of Other Dogs?
Monday, July 13th, 2009Why Do Dogs Smell Each Other
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Why do dogs smell each other?
When people meet and greet, they shake hands or touch in some way and they exchange pleasantries. And when dogs meet and greet, they smell each other. However people don’t reintroduce themselves periodically throughout their interaction or every time they meet especially if they know each other well, whereas [...]
Why Do Dogs Do Everything in a Circle?
Saturday, June 13th, 2009Why do dogs (circle before lying down or eliminating, play chase games on long round curves, spin like a top before a ball is thrown or when confined in a kennel or tied to a chain, approach other beings along an arc, quarter into the wind, twirl around a scent marking to position themselves, circumnavigate [...]
Toward a New Way of Seeing Dogs
Friday, June 12th, 2009The purpose of this section: why dogs do what they do is to demonstrate that dog behavior is a function of a “networked-intelligence”. The system logic of this intelligence is emotion. Dogs “know” what to do by virtue of how they feel.
To date explorations of why-dogs-do-what-they-do; from the days of Descartes versus Voltaire to our [...]
Why Do Dogs Wag Their Tails?
Monday, June 1st, 2009Why do dogs wag their tails? The quick answer is that a dog wags its tail for a reason which seems self-evident enough, being that it’s the tell-tale mark of a friendly dog. Indeed, anyone who’s stood near the pounding tail of a prototypical friendly breed, such as a Labrador Retriever, can take a veritable [...]
Why Do Dogs Love Car Rides?
Monday, June 1st, 2009Dogs love car rides because they feel as if they are on a hunt. For example, cats never love car rides, or at best merely learn to endure them because when riding in a car cats don’t feel as if they are on a hunt. Why when in a moving car, can a [...]
Why Do Dogs Chew Up Squeaky Toys?
Monday, June 1st, 2009They are seeking release but are only getting relief.
Every so often when I’m walking around my property and step into high grass or some leaves, I hear a little squeak from underfoot. For a second I wonder if I’m crushing some small critter but it always turns out to be nothing more than a [...]
Why Do Dogs Zoom-zoom-zoom Around the House?
Monday, June 1st, 2009Behaviorists call the syndrome of a dog running helter-skelter around the yard, or zooming from room to room in the house “frequent, random activity periods (FRAPS). However this is a profound misnomer because there’s nothing random about this activity. When a dog goes zoom-zoom-zoom it is actually fear coming to the surface so that it [...]
