Dog Behavior Explained 
You see it happen within thirty seconds of walking into the dog park. One dog trots over, turns around, and plants itself squarely on top of another dog like the second dog is a couch cushion.…
A dog standing in a backyard may notice another dog hundreds of feet away long before either animal comes into view.
Researchers who study canine olfaction describe a nose built for exactly this kind of separation.…
Watch a dog long enough and you’ll eventually catch one doing it: tongue flicking out toward nothing, lips smacking at air that holds no food, no treat, nothing a person can see.…
When your dog plants its nose an inch from yours, it’s almost always curiosity doing the work, not affection.
Your dog isn’t checking whether it loves you. It’s reading you, the way you might glance at a friend’s expression to see how their day went.…
A dog thrashing a stuffed animal from side to side is running a movement sequence built to rapidly incapacitate small prey.
That whip-fast head shake did not start as play.…
Before a dog does almost anything else on a walk, it breathes in.
That first inhale at the curb, the fence post, the mailbox, is doing more work than most owners realize.…
Many people assume it the moment it happens. Their dog hops onto the couch, circles once, and settles down facing the television instead of them. It feels like a small snub, as if the dog has decided the room is more interesting than its own person.…
Three commercials go by without so much as an ear twitch from the dog sprawled across the couch. Then the fourth one starts, and he’s on his feet before the jingle even finishes, barking at a screen he’d ignored for the last twenty minutes.…
One dog trots over with a sock dangling from its mouth.…