Talking from experience here as a psych major who studied behaviourism and has a fully trained german shephard who can fetch me beer from the fridge and follows commands based on hand signals and or verbal commands. Some good books to read upon are canine psychology and yes it does exsist. Many species in nature depend on each other for survival and will mimick the dominant species behaviour. Abused animals do not express these behaviours due to the lack of bond with their master. This applies to dogs who mainly have 1 owner or dogs that are treated well and loved. Dogs pick up on this change in behaviour and inturn change their behaviour to better suit their masters. If you get excited your dog gets excited, if you are under the weather you probably act much differently than if your not. It's a definite pattern that we've all noticed.ĭogs can sense changes in body scent due to sickness and anxiety hence why they say dogs can smell fear.Dogs are sociable animals and look at their owners as gods. I noticed this a while back and only started mentioning it the past while. She seems to consider herself my moral support. She parks herself by my side and sticks around, despite anyone's best efforts to try to tell her to move. When I am emotionally down - stressed out or sad - that is the young dog's territory. She is stoic and good company as her person is broken. When I am physically sick - a headache, a cold, etc - it is the old girl who doesn't leave my side. It looks like she just needed a 'vacation'.Ĭurrently, I have my old girl (12 and a half) and my young dog. When I brought her back home, she seemed to carry on pretty well. A week with new sights, sounds and smells, and she seemed to snap out of it. This went on for a couple weeks until I took her to university with me. She was lethargic, lack lustre and just plain 'down'. When we had our old girl put down, her daughter exhibited behaviour that looked like grieving.
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