What and how much can / dogs really sense or read people ?

[Salop Matt]

As above really.

I ask as our dogs when out with me especially when shooting appear to butch up and act different as to when at home. When at home they act almost like children in that the then go and sit with the Mrs as a mother figure if you like. I only have to get the gun cabinet keys or my willies and the cairn is there as much to say where are e going dad!

 

Am I going mad or do dogs actually see human male and female in different ways etc ?

 

Do your dogs behave differently according to if they are with you or your partner ?

 

ATB

 

Matt ( possibly cracking up)

[Highbird70]

Absolutely, dogs know and recognize the master in their life.

[kent]

yep, they also act differently with puppies. Dogs can be better at judging character and physical strength or weakness in humans better than some humans . If dogs could play poker they would be hard to beat after some practice, what is often seen as telepathy is a dogs ability to read sign, it don't need to be as obvious as going to the fridge or getting the cabinet keys- a facial change we might not be even aware of can do this. If your dog recalls when you bend your elbow to reach the whistle etc then you perhaps know the score in this regards coz he sure does

[fenboy]

It can be amazing how clever they can be .

Several years ago I had a springer , he lived mainly in the house , now I worked shifts so had no regular routine but what ever time I came home the dog would not make a sound when I walked up the path and opened the door, however if it was someone other than me , even if I was out and he was with the mrs he would be up barking, so he could tell my footsteps from others.

Also he was only allowed in the kitchen not the rest of the house as there was no door between the kitchen and the hall we used a baby gate to separate the areas from him.

After a while we started to notice some dirt and dog hairs on a patch of carpet at the bottom of the stairs , next time we went out I shut the back door but just stood a listened, within a few seconds I heard a clang as the dog jumped the gate as soon as I started to turn the door handle to open it there was another clang as he jumped back over by the time the door was open he would be laying in his bed pretending to be a sleep !!!

Edited April 6, 2013 by fenboy

[kent]

It can be amazing how clever they can be .

Several years ago I had a springer , he lived mainly in the house , now I worked shifts so had no regular routine but what ever time I came home the dog would not make a sound when I walked up the path and opened the door, however if it was someone other than me , even if I was out and he was with the mrs he would be up barking, so he could tell my footsteps from others.

Also he was only allowed in the kitchen not the rest of the house as there was no door between the kitchen and the hall we used a baby gate to separate the areas from him.

After a while we started to notice some dirt and dog hairs on a patch of carpet at the bottom of the stairs , next time we went out I shut the back door but just stood a listened, within a few seconds I heard a clang as the dog jumped the gate as soon as I started to turn the door handle to open it there was another clang as he jumped back over by the time the door was open he would be laying in his bed pretending to be a sleep !!!

That made me laugh about the gate, when me and the mrs got our first house it was a tiny cottage. the dog was never allowed on the sofa, though had the freedom of the house apart from the main bedroom. Watching through the front window as that shaggy coated lurcher slithered off the sofa trying to keep a low profile like a big snake with a guilty look to evade capture as our car pulled up each day outside was a sight to remember

[oscarsdad]

Mine definitely behave differently with me than my mrs.

 

My terrier who will be 4 this year is definitely "my" dog as I had him before she arrived on the scene, he will do as she asks but she may have to ask more than once, I can raise an eyebrow if he is doing something he shouldn't and he stops. He loves being chased around the room with some of his toys if she does it, but if i do the same thing he immediately rolls onto his back being submissive.

 

Both of them must be telepathic - if they are left at home alone then the usually play for a bit and then curl up and go to sleep - (I have an ip web cam which I can watch them on) but a few minutes before I pull on to the drive, they both go and sit at the front window looking for me - how they know that I am on my way home I have no idea!

[ollie]

My 4 year old Springer behaves much different with me than the missus. I have had the dog since a pup and the missus has only been walking the dog for 6 months since we moved in together. However, if we both go out a walk and I walk 5 yards ahead of the missus and the springer, the springer nearly chokes itself to get walking beside my heel. I also couldn't walk across a field and leave it with the missus as the Springer would want to be with me. We also have a 8 month old cocker which tries to get away with as much as possible with the missus, but when I am there it is good as gold.

 

When I get up in the morning I normally open the en-suite window to get a shower, the dogs know this is the first place I appear in the morning, so if I happened to go downstairs first and look out the window they will be sitting in their run staring at my en-suite window.

 

Dogs are amazing, that documentary that was on ITV a few months back just demonstrated how smart dogs are.

[kent]

Mine definitely behave differently with me than my mrs.

 

My terrier who will be 4 this year is definitely "my" dog as I had him before she arrived on the scene, he will do as she asks but she may have to ask more than once, I can raise an eyebrow if he is doing something he shouldn't and he stops. He loves being chased around the room with some of his toys if she does it, but if i do the same thing he immediately rolls onto his back being submissive.

 

Both of them must be telepathic - if they are left at home alone then the usually play for a bit and then curl up and go to sleep - (I have an ip web cam which I can watch them on) but a few minutes before I pull on to the drive, they both go and sit at the front window looking for me - how they know that I am on my way home I have no idea!

 

Dogs can differentiate engine note and can do so at a great distance. I wait at the top of our track each morning for my eldest to get on the school bus. The Lab comes with us, he signals the bus coming at exactly half a mile away at the time it stops to pick up the neighbour daughter. Keeps looking at me then in the direction its coming time and again repetitively, for those of us who remember paradise Island from the 70's, its like he is saying "look boss the plane, the plane" When the bus gets near he focuses entirely at my daughter prompting her for action in a similar way.

[figgy]

Keeps looking at me then in the direction its coming time and again repetitively, for those of us who remember paradise Island from the 70's, its like he is saying "look boss the plane, the plane"

 

 

Remember this Fantasy Island with Herve Villachase.

 

Nik nak in the Bond film.

 

Figgy

[Passionforangling]

I once read somewhere that if you were cooking a stew on the stove that a dog can differentiate all the different smells coming from the pan...eg the rabbit, the carrots, the swede, potatoes etc

 

I'm not sure if this is true but if it is what an amazing gift.....

[TaxiDriver]

They train assistance/welfare dogs for some people with such things as epilepsy, fits as the dogs have a strange ability to sense the onset of a fit, Way before the sufferer is aware

[DreadedFlapper]

They train assistance/welfare dogs for some people with such things as epilepsy, fits as the dogs have a strange ability to sense the onset of a fit, Way before the sufferer is aware

I watched a program on this! The epilepsy sufferer had many fits a day. The lady concerned was causing herself more harm because as she fell, she would knock herself out etc.

They then trained this dog as you said, to apparently smell the onset of a fit! The dog would notify the lady she would then lie on the floor have the fit with no harm done!!

It is bloody remarkable! It's the same with the dogs they train to sniff out certain cancers! Mind blowing really.