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Featured Article:
Dog Tails - Why Dogs Wag Their
Tails
(Excerpt from How to Speak Dog) Dr. Stanley Coren
“….In some ways, tail-wagging serves the same functions as our human
smile, polite greeting, or nod of recognition. Smiles are social
signals, and human beings seem to reserve most of their smiles for
social situations, where somebody is around to see them. Sometimes,
vicarious social situations, as when watching television or
occasionally when thinking about somebody special, can trigger a
smile. For dogs, the tail wag seems to have the same properties. A
dog will wag its tail for a person or another dog. It may wag its
tail for a cat, horse, mouse, or perhaps even a butterfly. But when
the dog is by itself, it will not wag its tail to any lifeless
thing. If you put a bowl of food down, the dog will wag its tail to
express its gratitude to you. In contrast, when the dog walks into a
room and finds its bowl full, it will approach and eat the food just
as happily, but with no tail-wagging other than perhaps a slight
excitement tremor. This is one indication that tail-wagging...continued
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