Dogs have a wonderfully strange idea of a proper introduction. Two dogs meet at the park, exchange a quick glance, and suddenly one is standing nose-deep in the other’s backside.…
You’ve been walking through an unfamiliar neighborhood for fifteen minutes, and your dog finally looks ready to poop. She slows beside a grassy roadside, sniffs one patch, takes three steps forward, and turns around.…
When your dog stops to sniff another dog’s pee, he’s doing more than checking out a bathroom spot. Urine carries chemical signals that can tell dogs something about the animal that left it, making an ordinary patch of grass surprisingly interesting.…
Dogs sniff the ground before peeing because they’re investigating the odors already present at a location. Those smells may influence whether they urinate there, leave a small scent mark, or decide to keep walking.…
A walk that takes you fifteen minutes might take your dog twice as long. You know the route, there’s nothing unusual ahead, and you’ve already passed this particular patch of grass a hundred times.…
Two dogs are wrestling across the living-room rug, all loose legs and open mouths. They tumble apart, bounce back together, and then pause. One steps close and drapes his chin across the other’s shoulders.…
That faint click-click from your dog’s mouth can sound oddly deliberate. He pauses over a patch of grass, lifts his head, and for a few seconds his teeth chatter together.…
A crouching dog can be surprisingly hard to read. Low posture can show up when a dog is worried about another dog and when he’s seconds away from bursting into play.…
First comes the nose against the puzzle lid. Then a paw. Then another try from a different angle.
Your dog knows the treat is in there, but the little box has stopped cooperating.…
Yawning usually feels easy to explain. Your dog curls up after a long afternoon, blinks slowly, stretches his jaw wide, and yawns. He’s tired. Nothing mysterious there.
Then you check into a hotel after a quiet drive.…