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Why Dogs Chase Their Tails
Usually play, sometimes boredom, and occasionally a genuine compulsive disorder with a known genetic component. Here is how to tell which you are watching.
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Do Dogs Like Music?
Shelter research has tested this properly, and the results are more specific than you would expect — including which genres reduce stress and why dogs stop responding after a few…
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How Fast Can Dogs Run?
Greyhounds hit around 70 km/h, and the anatomy that makes it possible also explains why they are terrible at endurance — and why huskies are the opposite.
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Why Dogs Lick People
Affection, appeasement, taste, attention-seeking, and occasionally a medical problem. The context tells you which — and there is a hygiene question worth knowing about.
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Why Dogs Yawn (It Usually Is Not Tiredness)
A yawn in a dog is more often a stress signal than a sign of sleepiness — and reading it correctly changes how you handle a lot of situations.
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Why Dogs Sniff Each Other (And What They Learn)
The rear-end greeting is an information exchange, and the anal glands are the reason. Here is what dogs are actually reading, and why forced greetings go wrong.
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What Dogs Can Hear That We Cannot
Dogs hear roughly twice as high as we do, locate sounds more precisely, and pick up things in your house that you have never noticed.
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Why Dogs Bury Things
Burying a bone in a flowerbed, or a sofa cushion, is food caching — a survival behaviour from a time when meals were unpredictable.
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Why Dogs Shake Their Toys
The violent head-shake with a squeaky toy is the tail end of a hunting sequence. Knowing which part of that sequence your dog enjoys explains most of their play.
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What a Dog’s Whiskers Are Actually For
They are not decorative facial hair. Whiskers are precision sensory equipment wired directly into the brain, and trimming them takes something away.