Do Dogs Dream?: Nearly Everything Your Dog Wants You to Know

few adults hear above 16,000 Hz.

While some tail wags are associated with happiness, others can signal a variety of quite different things, including fear and insecurity, social challenge, or even the warning that if you continue your approach you’re apt to be bitten.

The real difference between good and great trainers is how precisely they time that learned reward. Good trainers must also be good observers; otherwise they might miss behaviors that should have been rewarded.

Dogs also have a special sniffing ability that is quite different from their normal breathing. When your dog pushes its nose in the direction of a scent, he actively interrupts the normal breathing process so that the material he has sniffed passes over a bony shelflike structure in the nasal cavity that is designed to trap the odor-containing air

The two most common types are the “yip-howl” and the “social howl”: • The yip-howl sounds something like “yip-yip-yip-howl,” with the final howl quite prolonged. It usually means “I’m lonely,” “I feel abandoned,” or “Is there anybody there?” It’s the howl that you will most likely get from a dog who has been removed from the company of his family,

the top ten dogs in terms of working and obedience intelligence are, in order: • Border Collie • Poodle • German Shepherd Dog • Golden Retriever • Doberman Pinscher • Shetland Sheepdog • Labrador Retriever • Papillon • Rottweiler

Humans win the sensitivity contest for taste, with about 9,000 taste buds, compared with only 1,700 for dogs;

The sweet taste buds in dogs respond to a chemical called furaneol.

Nonetheless, in the wild more than 80 percent of a canine’s diet will be meat. For this reason, in addition to having sensors for sweet, salty, sour, and bitter, dogs have some specific taste receptors that are tuned for meats, fats, and meat-related chemicals.