Dog psychology question?
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It's a given that all dogs are different, so it would be hard to just pin down one reason why the 7 others didn't bark as much.  Some thought for this...fear of their surroundings, their nature of just being a quieter breed, their personality and being comfortable in a kennel, etc.  The 3 who barked would be more interesting to me, because of the reasons why they WOULD be barking in the first place.\n\nI have 5 dogs in my house at the moment.  My chihuahua (2 year old-Hoku) barks at the tiniest sound because of his size I believe, and his bark being a warning (he was the ONLY male mammal here until my daughter's dogs and cats arrived last week!).  The 12 year old cocker/peke mix barks because it's a peke's nature to do so and to greet us if she hears us driving up...the 15 year old chihuahua/beagle doesn't bark at all, unless the others are going crazy.  As for my daughter's two dogs...they have NO need to bark..they're rottweilers, and size alone is intimidating (as my chihuahua Hoku will tell you if he could talk!) LOL\n\nYou didn't mention anything about any dogs howling, but some do that in kennels (my daughter is a vet tech and tells stories about dogs boarded where she works) because they're lonely and miss their masters like crazy.\n\nAnyway, just a little food for thought...and my personal opinion while observing my own pack! :)
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i know something u may want to do. first the animal to be used will be the dog.  when a dog sees food it salivates. The food is the uncondioned stimulus, becasue any dog wld naturally salivate when  it is presented with food. However let's say you ring a bell, the doy will not saliavte. However if everytime you ring the bell, you present the dog with food it will salivate. The dog will establish a relasionship with teh dog and the beell, and evrytime it hears the bell which is teh conditonned stimlulus it will salivatte.
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Explain that you have thought about his desire for companionship and the potential threats to his already compromised health and that it is best for all concerned that if he can't take care of the dog in the way it deserves, and can't take care of himself the way he deserves, that it is safer for all concerned that the dog have a different home.\n\nUnfortunately, we often end up having to be parents to our parents and this is one of those times.
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It's clear that humans and animals (especially those close to us in the evolutionary tree), share similar chemical responses in their brain when faced with highly emotional situations.  Whether it be fear, contentment, mating urges, we have a lot of analogous mechanisms going on.  On this basis alone, there is a pretty strong argument that animals have feelings.\nOne possible counter-argument, however, is based on the definition that for certain chemical responses to be called feelings, that the being in question needs to have a conscious awareness of their state.  With this defition, it becomes much harder to say whether animals experience feelings in the same conscious manner even though the neurochemical signatures are similar.\nMy opinion is that this definition based on conscious understanding is a little specious, as it's based on an ongoing desire by some to try to define humans out of the context of the natural world... and to claim that we are categorically better than the other animals.  \nIf the neurochemical basis for consciousness is ever discovered we'll be able to quickly check which animals have this, and I suspect we'll find that many are conscious.  If this is so, then their feelings will be as real as human ones in all senses.
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We only think with the right side of our brain, while women think with both.  We don't know we're dogs, and if you ask a dog "are you a dog?" it will not respond because it doesn't know the difference between itself and anything else.  I was not aware I was a dog until my first wife let me know, and then my second wife let me know.  Until then I thought I was doing okay, but now I know I haven't ever done anything right.  It's amazing the enlightenment a woman can bring into a dogs life.  So, I have built some mighty nice doghouses in my life knowing full well that I may have to take up residency there.
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There was just published a study (I can get the reference if you need it) that people who choose dogs who have bad reputations (Pit bulls, rottweillers, dobermans etc) are far more likely to have criminal records or be addicted to drugs or alcohol.  \n\nIt supports the idea that there are no bad dogs, just bad owners.
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I think any living being that feels compassion or expresses feelings of sympathy, or love has to have a soul. When you are feeling sad or you are sick your dog won't leave your side, I believe that he knows something is not right and he wants to make you feel better so he stays with you and to a point you do feel better. Do you every watch animal planet? Animal Cops? Why do these dogs that are abused not bite their owners? Love. Its the same reason a child will still love a parent that abuses. I unfortunately had to put my dog Rphus to sleep about 2 months ago. When no one was home he jumped off something or fell down the stair, and somehow paralyzed his back legs. the vet told me that there was to much pressure on his spinal cord and within days he would die a painful death and as the vet was putting the needle in his leg I had a hold of his face, I got close to him, looked him in the eyes, and with streams of tears I said to him "I'm so sorry buddy I love you" Gave him a kiss on the head, then looked at him again, he gave me two licks on the nose and then he was gone.Watching him go see the sad in his eyes Iknow he had a soul. I believe the licks where his way of forgiving me. I mean he could have bitten me. When you look at thinks like that and other thing that our pets do for us how can they not have souls.
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There is no way to tell.  Without a means for other animals to express their feelings to us, we cannot really know what they are afraid of.  However, anyone who has owned a dog knows that dogs are sometimes irrationally afraid of certain things.  Our old dog wouldn't get into the car without being dragged.  Why?  Because sometimes a car ride meant a trip to the vet, and some other times it meant a trip to the kennel.  He was afraid of those things, so he never understood that the car might be going to a friend's house or the park.  \n\nBut whether mice have phobias is beyond our ability to discern.   Good luck!!
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Oh the visual!       I cant help but thinking of 2 dogs with their butts stuck together.\n\nsomebody needs to pour cold water you...lol
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This is what i found on a website listed below it also has more on that page about fear as an emotion also.  somthing i didnt see in that paper was how animals can smell fear because of the chemical response our bodies have because of fear and the surge of adrenilin it can create.\n\n\nWhat is fear? Technically it is a fight or flight response to a real or perceived threat. Fear is an emotion that responds to threatening situations. Animals exhibit fear and have elaborate defense mechanisms built in to respond to threats. Because we are physically an animal so do we. We respond to threat pretty much in the same way an animal does. Except that humans have a higher mental capacity that animals. This is a gift that separates us from the animal kingdom, but at the same time gives us rational thought. So that humans can reason their situations out and react not in a rigid way as an animal does, but in varied ways. \nAn animal cannot choose to be not fearful, it either is or isn't fearful depending on the situation. Animals are programmed to respond based on instinct. That is that they do what they do because they are compelled to act in a certain way. Humans have some of the same instinct tendencies that animals have, but with the capacity to rationalize our situations, we can, no matter what the threat, real or perceived, choose to fear or not to fear.
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Hmm... I'm not so sure I agree - I've seen at least two questions today related to dogs bodily functions. It even has the word *gasp* ... poop.
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Awww.....that's how my dog makes me feel, too.  If I cuddle with him, I instantly feel better.  Shhhh....don't tell anyone.  LOL
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Yeah, they're all talking about their favorite all-time baseball player, where they can find house shingles, and the stuff on the outer layers of those trees they mark. ; )\n\nSeriously, I don't know if it's conversational in nature, but probably more of a territorial thing: they bark to let other dogs know they're around and as a warning to not trespass. My guess is that when the last one barks, he/she knows the other dog "left."
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if you dont want to read the whole thing ive tried to make it as simple as possible at the very bottom... after the edit....\n\nwe follow our instinct autonomously until we are made self aware... then we start to learn better control of ourselves by making sense of things through language and also consequently obtaining a better sense of reality...\n\nwhen guided by instinct you just go with the flow and there really is no ,consciousce or guided, thought on your part... it does the thinking for you and your just part of the ride...\n\nits a self guided program your immersed in...where your mind automatically picks out things which stand out... then automatically your body contemplates this thing and your subconscious reflex guides you either to it or to react to it, and/or investigate it further if it sees that need to...  otherwise it moves on until it you notice something else to react upon....\n\nthrough this animal thinking everything you think is mostly like a picture... but its not a picture.... its a memory of exactly what senses where stimulated in that moment... which also makes it seem like you see something... its hard to describe how this works... but using this you have an exact memory for that moment.. and an exact way to react when in that moment...this is your thoughts...  the more you learn the more is programmed into your autonomacy...\n\n\nalso sometimes you can see this program in action... with dreams... automatically you know what to do in them...and its more like a movie playing out... \n\nthis explains why dogs twitch their legs sometimes.. or cry, whine, yelp or bark while sleeping... their dreams are everyday acts inputed into the autonomacy program... then while their asleep it randomly creates stimulations one would find in the real world... its still unkown what purpose this serves though... while sleeping i mean...\n\nalso without thoughts we tend to dwell on doing the things that feel good... and conveniently enough instinct has it so the things which feel good are the right things to do (mostly)...\n\nit isnt until later in life that our consciousceness of the world can realize that to gain some things you want ... you must sacrifice some things or do things not feeling good to get what you want.\n\nanyway, for what you asked the same thing mentioned above applies for deaf and blind people... whatever stimulations stand out more than others is what they think about... and through their own program of autonomacy... they know what to do and what not to do... we still have our insctinct to rely on... and they have the same feelings of hunger and pain... etc as we do.... and this is what they focus on... the feelings and/or the pictures that guide them.... \n\na blind person dreams about what they felt or heard... making sense of it in their own way that works for them to survive and be happy....\n\na deaf person dreams about what they saw and felt and tends to dwell on these senses in reality as well toward a sytem that works for them...\n\n-sorry if this is choppy and random... but i hope it helps...\n\n----------*edit*-----------\nill clarify this a little... i realize its not very eloquent an answer...\n\nbasically like somone had said above before we associate things with words.... we associate things with our senses (stimulations).... and it is the good and bad things which guide us... as children we have a memory of the exact stimulations we had at that specific moment... which also forms a picture in our mind with certain "feelings" associated with them...\n\n randomly things relavant to the current situation flash in our mind...like pictures with feelings... and we then decide( mostly subconsciously)  which to act upon... its more like falling into preset actions...\n\nchoosing one of these preset actions most relevent... means going into the same stimulations we had before that would work in this situation... i really hope this makes sense... its so hard to explain...\n__________
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A friend of mine had a dog who liked to spend time in the backyard.  One day she was in the house and heard her dog yelping intermittently.  She ran outside to see what was wrong.  He was standing next to an electric fence wagging his tail happily-but every time he wagged his tail it touched the fence & he yelped.
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dep dog has the rght answer
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Depends on how still the dog is. If it's a puppy then you are  probably doing some work.