Do you know what it means when you come home and your dog licks your face? Well, in a way he is asking you for "food".....this behavior goes back to the mother wolf coming home and regurgitating to feed her pups....so your dog is looking for his food...
Do you know why dogs Howl? Would you believe it is to show geniune "sorrow", as if to cal back lost loved ones........
Dogs also have a highly developed social system. In any group of canines, (ruedel) there is a "pecking order", and just as some humans have better leadership skills, sometimes there is more than one alpha male or female. Dogs are luckily domesticated enough not to kill each other, but they play all the bluffs and sometimes get carried away by injuring each other. The smell alone of one female in heat will make the others fell 'threatened' and they may bicker between themselves, if the female in heat is the dominent one, or they may decide to 'challenge' her by picking on her......and she may retreat and hide. Also, more then one pregnant female in a pack is originally unnatural, and there are often quibbles between 2 pregnant females, but not serious ones, as again they are domesticated enough to make "killing" each other practically obsolete, due to the availability of food bu humans and human punishment for this behavior...The 'lower' ranked the dog, the more clingy they often become to a human for protection. Often a 'newcomer' will cling to a human until they are not longer picked on by the Canine group, and then they just become "one of them." |
