A DOG'S LIFE

Dogs are senstive to the subtlest changes around them. Using the sophisricated senses of the born predator they observe us much more keenly than we observe them and the pick up body-languages sinnds that we not even realize we are sending, for their part they use their voice to communicate articulately in a varitey of ways, howling to call other member of the pack, growing in anger barking for joy or winning for attention.

Dogs have all the skills of their wild ancestors. Althrough not as fagile as cats, they are still good jumpers. They are far better swimmers for many there is not great pleasure that a plunge into water. Dogs senses are also more sophisticated than ours in many ways. They heat better than we do an ability evolved to help them near the rustling of a rodent on the move which now enable them to home is on an opening fridge. Their abiligy to detect, locate and identity secents is so defined that it is virtually beyond our.

Curiously, just as we use perfume, dogs cover themselves in strong and will roll on anything worth a pungent odour including decomposing material.

Being scavengers as well as predators dogs eat a wide variety of food paying little attention to whether they are frest or not. They chew sticks and bones, and some bury what they regard as excess food, to be dug up when times are hard because they are pack animals, they are competitive feeders. The dominant dog earts first and all dogs wolf down their food to prevent other pack memebers from eating it even if you and your family are the other pack members.

This same sociability means that dogs willimgly sleep together. The sleeping positions that they assume vary with breed, age, environmental temperature and the security that an individual feels. As well as grooming by licking, scratching, and chewing themselves, or by rolling in grass or even dust, some dogs will also groom each other.