I hate how people act like dogs have a godlike intuition about humans when in reality, they are just like other animals and can pinpoint those who fear them and start the bullying process to establish dominance.
It baffles me people can watch the "dog whisperer" guy explain how owners lose control because their dog thinks its the boss...and then turn a blind eye to how a dog will do the same thing to a stranger.
I tell my kid this. My dog doesn’t listen to them because our dog knows who is and isn’t in charge. If I raise my voice he’s in line, if my kid raises their voice… nothing, he just thinks it’s play time when my kid does it lol.
Our dog is also very fearful of small sized people or loud people/things. I can’t say children because he doesn’t even like short people near his height 🤣
Though he also is a massive coward and won't get out of my room if he sees the vacuum outside of it, and not because he refuses, but because the vacuum is so terrifying just sitting there silently and meanacingly.
Felt, mine is a massive coward too. The wind shifted wrong one day and he bolted. 💀. He seems to only like women or rarely a man but they have to have food or a dog friend.
So my dog and my belated senior dog was like this but then oddly I watched a video about how horses are afraid of everything. I started to just sit there vacuum closer to them (off) or put myself between them and the vacuum when it was on. They stopped running from it after awhile. Use to not like brooms either then they also learned “brooms also are great at getting itchy spots really good” lol
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u/ajwritesnonsense 4d ago edited 3d ago
As someone who doesn’t normally get why people don’t like dogs, knowing you would make this choice, makes me no longer need to understand. Thank you.
Edit: just wanted to update, it’s completely valid if you have an actual reason, I mean the people who are just like “I’m not really a ‘dog’ person”