How well do you know your dogs body language?

[Cuebill]

This clip shows whether a dog wants to be stroked or not. It shows some clear dog body language that some people can miss.

I recently attended a two day course about dogs body language/signals. with a lot of tea drinking and messing about on fields thrown in

I've had dogs all my life but there was definitely some new ones to me.

So so interesting and will enjoy looking at the link, thanks.

That was really interesting - thanks for that.

My dog nearly always pulls his head away when someone strokes him - I suppose he doesn't like it

CakeMeIamYours try stroking him in a different place, eg chin, or chest etc and see if his reaction is different.

That was lovely, thanks Cuebill. One of ours has trained us . When we are tickling him, and if we stop, we get nudged by the paw or even a flick of the paw - that's his signal to continue. He's got us beautifully trained to respond to this cue.

I loved the blissed out expression of the second dog - the love sponges reall do look like that. Eyes half closed and sometimes you get a type of contented groaning noise as well.

Bumping because I think everyone should see this, it's very useful to know.

Just a shame there isn't a dog version entitled 'How well do you know your Human's Body Language?'

If it's been too long between playtimes our lab dramatically drops one paw noisily on the floor (while still lying down because he isn't getting up unless you do .

He's very cute if you rub his chest and he's sitting - he drapes a paw over that arm as if to say you can't stop, I'm loving you too.

That was really interesting! I've got one who is a total cuddle whore, if you stop touching her she will nudge, tap, scratch, lean in - anything to get you petting her again. And I'm not just talking patting, you could do almost ANYTHING to her, she'd still come back for more. Slut.

Bumping again :)

This was very helpful - made dh and the dds watch it!

Our dog often says 'yes', but sometimes (especially with children) 'no'. Thanks for posting.