Are you sure your dog loves you?
April 26, 2007 Leave a comment
Time to start watching your dog's tail wagging a little more closely. The New York Times reports this week:
There is another, newly discovered, feature of dog body language
that may surprise attentive pet owners and experts in canine behavior.
When dogs feel fundamentally positive about something or someone, their
tails wag more to the right side of their rumps. When they have
negative feelings, their tail wagging is biased to the left.A
study describing the phenomenon, ?Asymmetric tail-wagging responses by
dogs to different emotive stimuli,? appeared in the March 20 issue of
Current Biology.
that may surprise attentive pet owners and experts in canine behavior.
When dogs feel fundamentally positive about something or someone, their
tails wag more to the right side of their rumps. When they have
negative feelings, their tail wagging is biased to the left.A
study describing the phenomenon, ?Asymmetric tail-wagging responses by
dogs to different emotive stimuli,? appeared in the March 20 issue of
Current Biology.
As for me, I have do doubt that Lira's tail has a very strong rightward bias.
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