Do Dogs Have The Ability To Communicate?

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 do dogs communicate? Dogs are intelligent animals and using body language and some forms of vocalizations, dogs can very well communicate with other dogs, with other animals and with humans. Anyone who have had the opportunity to live with dogs would attest to these animal's ability to make humans and animals understand what they want to convey.

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 unique form of communicating with other dogs. Similar to wolves in the wild, the dominant dog that takes the position of the alpha male can restore order in the pack when the pack members are being unruly. 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 bared teeth and the threatening growl of the pack leader will be enough to warn other dogs in the pack. When meeting people, humans shake each others hand, dogs sniff each others butt as a form of communication. When a dog meets another dog, the butt sniffing ritual is used as a form of communication that allows a dog to accept or to reject the other.

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. A dog that is alerting the owners to possible territory intrusion would bark in a different manner than when it barks with joy at the sight of the master.

Dogs are man's best friend and loyal companions. It would be super if dogs can talk so that they will be the master's confidante as well but since they cannot, we humans have to be satisfied with the silent empathy and unending affection of the pet.

by: Jerry Welsh

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