Thursday, September 27, 2007

Is that a happy Beastie?


This came from Dog Age email....

The direction of your dog's tail wags may tell you what's going on in his brain. Researchers found that dogs consistently wag their tails to the right at the sight of something pleasing and familiar -- their owners, for example. A dog's left brain, like a human one, deals with positive emotions. And because the left brain controls the right side of the body, happy excitement will send a pup's tail wagging to the right. Tails take a left turn when dogs greet someone less familiar or when they encounter intimidating behavior in other dogs. Wagging to the left reflects feelings like fear and anxiety.
But then when they wag all over from head to tip and everything in between...well there's excitment for sure eh?

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