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Dogs / Behaviour
Many owners become frustrated when their dog stops every few steps on a walk to sniff a patch of grass, a lamppost, or a tree trunk. But sniffing is not idle distraction — it is intense mental process
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Dogs / Behaviour
A long, deep exhale, sometimes with a soft groan, is one of the more expressive sounds a dog makes, and like much of canine communication, context tells you almost everything.
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Dogs / Behaviour
Barking is one of the most natural things a dog does, and expecting a dog to never bark is a bit like expecting a person to never speak. The trouble starts when barking becomes near-constant, aimed at
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Dogs / Behaviour
Few dog behaviours test an owner's patience quite like watching a freshly bathed dog drop and roll gleefully in something foul the moment they're let back outside. It's genuinely baffling from a human
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Dogs / Behaviour
Of all the breeds documented in Theodore Baskaran's landmark survey, The Book of Indian Dogs, the Vaghari Hound is among the least recorded today, a sighthound that survives more in breed lists and ol
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Dogs / Behaviour
The classic head-back, nose-to-the-sky howl is one of the most ancient sounds a dog makes. Domestic dogs share a common ancestor with wolves, who used howling as a long-distance way to keep a pack tog
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