Summary: When we talk to our dogs, let’s face it, we feel like we’re talking to a potato. A big, fat, lazy potato, who doesn’t do anything all day and yet we pay for it to be fed and sheltered. (I feel like this sometimes.)This potato, however, can understand you. It can’t respond, of course, and it won’t do your taxes, but it knows what you’re trying to get across. If you say in an angry voice “YOU’RE A BAD DOG!” Most dogs will cower in fear. I know mine sure does, especially when my Daddy says it. Dogs know who is Boss and who will kick their butts if they don’t behave. (They get this mentality from being descended from wolves.) If you hug them, while shaking, saying something along the lines of “I’m scared” they’ll know what you’re feeling.
Impact: No impact, really. Studies say that dogs have the same amount of understanding as an infant child. That’s not bad for an animal that chases its tail.
Critique: My dog is very scared of thunderstorms. I am too. This is why I’m not insensitive to her fear of it. When there are storms outside, we sort of comfort each other. (Say what you want about my being a scaredy-cat, but I’m one of the strongest people I know emotionally.) She seems to somehow understand that I’m scared too and we sit together while I try to take my mind off of it by watching TV or something.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120105131639.htm
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