Learn to recognize and understand your dog’s body language.

By Pat Miller

Sometimes the moments that are caught by a still camera in the middle of a fluid canine “conversation” are comical. In other cases, the camera captures a scary expression of aggression that wasn’t easily visible to the observer on the ground.

Play bows. Averted eyes. Tail wags. Flattened ears. Our dogs are not only masters at reading our body language, but also experts at sending messages with an incredibly expressive tool – their own bodies. If we humans were half as good at reading their signals as they are at reading ours, there would be a lot less miscommunication between our two species.

The fact is, most dog owners don’t see, much less recognize the basic grammar of dog body language. That’s why, when owners call me, asking for help with their dog following a bite, they almost always say, “The bite just happened out of the blue – there was no…

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