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How many dogs have been killed by misleading owners? How much do you know about the way dogs think?

Do you know how dogs think?

By yusuPublished 2 years ago 6 min read

Dogs give us the impression that they are very smart. The reason for our cognition is that among the animals around humans, there is really no higher IQ than dogs. Therefore, saying that a dog is smart is a result of comparing it with other animals familiar to humans. But this does not mean that dogs are the smartest animals in nature. There are many animals in nature that are smarter than dogs, but those are not within the scope of human attention. After all, those animals are far away from us, and what humans care more about are dogs that depend on humans to survive. What does it have to do with us whether other animals are smart?

People know that the IQ of dogs is dependent on human children. This is also the progress of people's cognition of dogs after dogs became human pets. In the past thousands of years, although dogs have lived together with humans, no one has done in-depth research or thinking about dogs themselves and their behavior. Although the owner at that time also regarded the dog as the life of the family, he also cared for them out of sincerity. Beating the dog to see the owner explains the problem. But in general, dogs have a relatively low status in human families. Dogs may die for biting chickens and ducks, but now it's limited to punishment.

When it comes to people's understanding of dogs, it is still limited to the surface. In real life, some experiences obtained by owners based on the behavior of dogs do not reflect the nature of the dog's behavior. Especially with regard to the dog's thinking, most dog owners only know that the dog's thinking is straightforward and simple. In this regard, the dog is basically the same as the human child except that he can't speak. It means that the emotions generated by thinking are not hidden, they will directly become external behavior wherever the thinking goes. They fully maintain a high degree of unity of thinking and behavior, and people will perceive its psychological activities from its emotions.

Therefore, a dog's emotions will never deceive people, it will keep an eye on you and you will see it at a glance. He is friendly to you, his face makes you feel safe, and his little tail wagging his friendliness. Almost everyone has a common understanding of these superficial behaviors of dogs. But few people are clear about the deep-seated aspects of the dog's way of thinking. In fact, the dog's way of thinking, strictly speaking, is vertical thinking. The human way of thinking is flat. We are accustomed to associating one thing with another, and think about the connections between things and their causality.

The vertical thinking of the dog is only for the single event in front of it, and will not be connected with others. For example, the dog will be punished for demolishing the house, and the dog will be rewarded for excellent performance. These are all things that the dog will easily think of. For example, people don't stand under a dangerous wall because they don't know when it will fall. But when the dog saw the dangerous wall, he didn't expect it to fall, and stayed under the wall. Combining the thinking and behavior of the dog with the owner, when the dog is with the owner, it is the time when the dog feels the safest and the most worry-free. Due to the high trust in the owner, it only needs to obey the owner's instructions. As long as the owner's emotions are normal, the dog's psychology will not be disturbed.

Very sensitive dogs, habitually think that the owner will never harm it. In the dog world, there will never be a concept of the owner hurting the dog. Therefore, it will not believe that the owner will abandon it, and it will not believe that the owner will hurt it. Even if the owner hits it with a stick, it will not resist and run away. Everything the owner does is right, that's the dog's vertical thinking at work. When the owner takes the dog out, the owner ties it on a rope, and the smart dog will naturally think that the owner does not want it to move freely. And it's happy to be controlled by its master, so that it doesn't bother to think about anything else, just go for a walk in the direction of the master's rope.

When I took the edge shepherd to run in the wild, I just held the rope first, it jumped directly to the car, and when it got to the spot, I let go of the rope, and the dog began to move freely. When you are about to go home, put on the rope again, get in the car, and take off the rope after entering the house. For a long time, the dog has long been familiar with this process. Therefore, my dog ​​is always looking forward to putting it on a leash. And dogs in other families should also hope that the owner will put a rope on it, which means that the dog can go out, it should be like this. But many dogs were poisoned, and some were hit by cars, and we found that the dog owner had a rope in his hand at this time. This shows that the owner feels that the current environment is very suitable for the dog's activities, so he untied the rope without authorization.

How the dog thinks at this time, no one of the dog owners will think of it. Dogs will habitually think that when the owner untangles the rope, the dog can move in his own way. It can run, eat randomly, and do what it likes. Its thinking determines that it will not think about what may happen unexpectedly. It will think that everything is handed over to the master, and it is not far from the master, and everything is settled by the master. In the eyes of the dog, the owner is omnipotent and the object of his worship. But this is not a sparsely populated field, but a community or street where people and cars come and go. Dogs can't think of things, and owners can't think of them?

In dog-related disputes, it is often staged with the dog's injury, and the owner's grief while throwing the blame on others. No matter how many similar incidents occur, it is almost a plot and a routine. When the dog was poisoned, he pulled the child in, claiming that he was afraid of harming the child, which was very different from the dog's attitude when chasing and biting the child; the dog was hit by a car, it was the driver's responsibility, and the dog became himself again The child of the child, the spiritual compensation of the sky-high price will come immediately. No matter how the dog owner performs, it is always the dog who is hurt, and no dog owner will admit that it is their own reasons that cause the dog to be hurt. In fact, when you untie the dog leash, it is considered by the dog to be able to move freely, and the dog always believes that it is the safest to be by your side.

Therefore, as a dog owner, you should grasp the psychology of the dog at any time, and be familiar with their behavior and habits, so as not to mislead the dog psychologically because of your own behavior. A high degree of tacit understanding in the behavior of people and dogs is the highest artistic conception for both sides to get along. As long as you sincerely start from maintaining the safety of the dog, you will be responsible for your own behavior, rather than blindly blaming others and blaming others. At the same time, keeping a dog is also a mirror, it will show your humanity in the sun at any time.

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