How To Train A Dog

Dogs have remained the faithful friends and the dependable helpers and companions of humans for centuries as both understand each other in spite of the dog’s inability to speak. How can dogs make humans and other animals understand what they want to say? Through body language and a form of vocalization, dogs can make humans, dogs and other animals understand what they want to say. Dog owners would attest to the fact that man’s best friend really do have the ability to show their feelings and to convey what they mean to their human friends.

A dog’s method of communicating will be very apparent in a household with 2 or more dogs as one dog will grab the rank of being the leader of the pack. Dogs have a distinctive method of communicating with each other. The leader of the pack can easily stop unruly play between pack members. The alpha male will assume a dominant position, bare the teeth and let out a menacing growl that would instantly make dogs lower in rank manifest a submissive attitude by lowering the eyes and by holding the tail between the legs.

The growl and the bared teeth is the alpha male’s warning to the dogs lower in rank to behave. When meeting people, humans shake each other’s hand, dogs sniff each other’s butt as a form of communication. Dogs that allow its rear end to be sniffed is communicating its desire to be friends with the other dog.

Through the long years of association, man has finally understood the sounds as well as the body movement of dogs so that even if these animals were not gifted with the ability to speak they can still communicate with their human friend. Dogs are believed to be highly attuned to the feeling of their master so that understanding humans would be easy for our canine friends but humans have a higher level of intelligence than dogs so that in spite of the communication barrier, humans can understand dogs by observing its body movements and facial expression. For instance the barking and the body movement of the dog excited at the arrival of the master would be different from the barking when the dog is trying to protect the territory from an intruder.

Apart from being man’s best friends, dogs are also man’s most loyal companions. Dogs cannot talk but these are intelligent animals and they would know how to get their message across and humans have come to understand the pet by learning the meaning of the dog’s vocalization and body movements.