Dogs Have Strong Abilities Communicate With Other Species

As the saying goes, a dog is a man’s best friend. The dog is a loving companion to a man. He is happy to go everywhere with his master. He shows his affection for his master by wagging his tail and licking his hand or face. This timeless relationship continues to evolve into new kinds of human-dog interactions that increasingly benefit society.

Dogs have been trained for years. They are very ingenious animals that have a greater influence on lives than some may think. One doesn’t merely train him to be semi-human, but possibly of becoming partly a dog. One wants to rediscover the commonality of animal and man-to see an animal eat and sleep that hasn’t forgotten how to enjoy doing such things-and the directness of its loyalty. (Hoagland,

The nature of the project prevented me from including cute pictures of dogs or videos of dogs being sweet. Since I could not include other media to make a empathetic connection I had to get creative. Ms. Virginia Morell used a personal narrative in her article for national geographic "How Orcas Work Together to Whip Up a Meal" (Morell). This personal narrative successfully created a empathetic connection between the Orcas and the audience. I decided to try the same technique, except from the dog's perspective. This created a personal connection as any human could have those same thoughts the dog had when observing other people. If I saw someone else act non-cooperatively I would not want to be friends with them, that’s just not nice. The audience might realize the answer to the "why does it matter" question. Dogs think like we do, and this was a very effective way of communicating

First of all, many owners adopt puppies; allowing both to create a stronger emotional connection. A study conducted by the University of Lincoln and the University of Sao Paulo proved that dogs can not only understand humans, but they can also read and understand their emotions (Jamieson). The dogs in the trial were shown several pictures of humans with varying expressions. When the voice over the speaker said a command, the dogs would listen to the tone of the human and face towards the picture that corresponded appropriately. For example, if the voice sounded excited, the dog would wag its tail and point its attention towards the smiling face. The reactions dogs have to these type of tests show that their emotional connections to humans come almost instinctively. It is because of this trait that most hospitals arrange programs in which animals help victims recover.

Canines have the ability to serve as seeing-eye dogs, firedogs, service dogs or just a playful, loyal companion. The closer the dog and human’s relationship is, the stronger the feelings between them are. Canines have a talent of recognizing dangerous situation and being there for humans in their time of

Daily we see those mini-size cute toy poodles jumping around, the tall and slim Doberman Pinscher staring acutely into distant place, or the pure white Samoyed sticking his tongue out with a natural, angel-like smile. Dogs are everywhere now; they are the best friends of humans. But do we really understand them? In Alexander Horowitz’s book Inside of a Dog, she explains how dogs’ senses, particularly smell, differ from humans’ in ways we may never think about. People utilize the main sense of dogs, its smell, for their own interest, but they also take for granted by perceiving it with their own unwelt, so often interfere with dogs’ navigation through the world.

Humans and dogs have been pals for what seems like forever. However, all relationships have to start somewhere, and this relationship is no different. From the beginnings of domestication to where we are today, how we have adapted dogs to our needs and how dogs have adapted us to their needs is a story that sounds fictional. This couldn’t be further from the truth. We call them Man’s Best Friend for a reason--we artificially created them to become our best friends, and they created the mannerisms we use today.

I think that dogs are very smart and can understand us some of the time but not all the time. HuffingTon says that when we use words

After reading Brian Hare’s The Genius of Dogs, a misconception I previously had was that humans domesticated dogs. I believed that thousands of years ago wolves were brought into the houses of humans and taken on hunting trips and over time they became less aggressive. In fact dogs domesticated themselves. Hare discusses many topics that went against my previous thoughts including dogs understanding of connections, the aspect of fetch, and the play bow, but I have chosen to focus on how dogs domesticated themselves by scavenging through human trash. Brian Hare’s studies on dog cognition and the process of domestication began his sophomore year of college when it was proposed to him that the difference separating humans from other animals was our ability to understand communicative intentions.

The media news clip of “Speak (carefully) Dogs understand your words, new research says” describes a study that was completed overseas on dogs in relation to how they react to certain words and tone of voice from humans. The happy and more excited a human sounds while interacting with a dog will cause a positive interaction with the dog’s brain. A monotone or unexcited voice tone will not spark a positive reinforcement

There are distinct similarities between dogs and humans such as homelessness, poverty, perseverance in the fight for survival, the apparent lack of organizational hierarchy among our species, and the instinctual survival abilities that have been lost through the evolution of domestication. All these became apparent to me when I compare the dogs that Randy has encountered. Consciously or subconsciously, I’ve come to the realization that humans are not very different from dogs in the sense that both have progressed through the evolution of domestication. I’ve become more consciously aware of the epidemic of dog homelessness in America. Yet, I couldn’t help but ponder on my subconscious psyche and compare similarities that we face as humans.

Dogs are domesticated animals and many believe they were the very first to be properly domesticated, as well as the only domesticated species before the cultivation of crops (Craig, 1981). Domestication is a genetic process where dog’s phenotypes and genetics change in response to their interaction with humans (Johnson & Wright, 2014). In recent years, one question that has been asked a great deal is how our interaction affects the behaviour of animals. Is our interaction having a negative impact on these animals? Generally domesticated animals are very well looked after, however when mistreated their

Any pet owner knows there is no greater way to spill your deepest secrets than to your little best friend, but what if they could talk back? This mystical world may be closer than originally thought

“To test how well dogs and wolves could learn from one another, the researchers created a problem that wolves and dogs were equally motivated to solve: a food treat locked inside a box. The only way to open the box was with a lever. They trained one dog to operate the lever with its mouth, and another dog to use its paw. (The wolves were raised with the dogs and treated them as members of the same pack, Range says.) Then they let wolves and dogs see the box opened by one of those two methods. If dogs have better social intelligence across the board, they should do better than the wolves at learning by example and getting at the treat.

It is often said that a dog is a man’s best friend. In the last 14,000 years, dogs have accompanied man by helping him hunt, guard, and protect. In our modern world, dogs help us combat in war, search-and-rescue, guide the blind, deaf, discapacitated, rehabilitate patients in therapy, aid law enforcement, and are part of our family as beloved pets (Coren). Although canine superstars such as Lassie, Old Yeller, and Rin Tin Tin portray the perfect dog we all want in our lives, these ideals are far from the truth. Many first-time dog owners expect dogs to know behaviors such as how to walk on a leash, not bite, not destroy the house, and in addition to many others. In reality, dogs must be trained on what their handler wants them to do. It is