Understanding your dog

Dogs are very sensitive pets in terms of senses and sensing emotions.

It is a known fact that dogs have a keen sense of smell. This is attributed to the millions of smell receptors on their noses. This is why dogs are used in sniffing out illegal drugs, locating bombs in mine fields and hunting.

A dog's hearing is another characteristic which makes dogs good hunters. While humans can hear sounds with in 16 to 20 hertz for low sounds, dogs can make out sounds as low as 20 to 70 hertz and sounds as high as 100 kilo hertz. In fact they also can easily associate certain sounds to certain beings or objects. This is why dogs do not bark when their owners are approaching even if behind a door and why dogs bark and get jumpy with unfamiliar sounds.

Perhaps the only sense that dogs seem to lack in is sight. They are in actual fact colour blind and their lenses flatter than that of humans. Thus their vision lacks detail.

But probably the best sense that dogs is their sensitivity to its human companions.

Aside from them being very intelligent creatures, they can sense mood changes in humans. A human's emotions also affect its dog's emotions. They seem to understand the feeling of their human companions and know how to act around them given the general emotions. Because of their silent understanding, they are even sometimes considered to be better companions than humans.

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