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Dog communication is about how dogs "speak" to each other, how they understand messages that humans send to them, and how humans can translate the ideas that dogs are trying to transmit. [ 7 ] : xii These communication behaviors include eye gaze, facial expression, vocalization, body posture (including movements of bodies and limbs) and ...
Resource guarding is a behavior many dogs exhibit – it’s a survival mechanism that goes back to when they’d need to protect valuable resources in the wild.
Another form of coercion is male mate guarding, used to keep females from mating with other males, and often involves aggression. [8] Guarding allows the males to ensure their paternity. A classic example occurs in diving beetles, family Dytiscidae. After copulation, males continue to guard females for up to six hours.
1) Punishing dogs has been associated with a strong likelihood of new or increased aggression and other behavior problems; 2) dominance in pet dogs is not a character trait of a dog but rather a power agreement between dogs regarding who has best access to particular resources; and 3) the behavior of dogs controlling access to resources is fluid, not static, depending on context.
Predator-deterring guard dogs: The use of guard dogs to protect livestock from depredation has been effective in mitigating human-carnivore conflict around the globe. A recent review found that 15.4% of study cases researching human-carnivore conflict used livestock-guarding dogs as a management technique, with animal losses on average 60 times ...
People need to understand that these dogs are trained to help the people who need them navigate the world, and in some cases, even save their lives but being responsive to a medical emergency.
Whilst there are lots of dogs who love to dig, working breeds have a tendency to do it more - especially labrador retrievers, golden retrievers, border collies, and German shepherds. 4 ...
LGDs are large, powerful dogs, although smaller dogs drive wild animals away from the herd just as effectively. The large size provides guardian dogs with a number of advantages: they retain heat longer, carry more fat reserves and can go without food for longer, are less likely to get bone fractures and tolerate illnesses better.