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.…
One dog drifts along a quiet trail with a loose body, nose moving from a tuft of grass to the edge of a tree root. Nothing has interrupted him.…
Few dog postures get answered for the dog as quickly as this one. She rolls onto her back, belly exposed, paws in the air, and a human hand immediately starts heading toward her stomach.…
Picture a dog standing twenty feet inside a dog park, sniffing near the edge of the grass. Another dog comes through the gate and notices him almost immediately. He could take the obvious route and walk straight across the open space until they meet nose to nose.…
It can feel surprisingly personal when your dog leans away from you. You reach to clip the leash, invite her forward, or bend down to greet her, and instead of coming closer she shifts her weight toward her back feet.…
When a dog shifts his weight forward, the simplest thing you can say is that part of his body has moved closer to whatever has his attention. His feet don’t even have to leave the floor.…