Dogs can talk to humans, study suggests

[Sanguine]

     

17 May 2017 • 12:01am

Dogs have a surprising ability to make humans understand what their barks and growls mean, a study has shown.

Women were better than men at recognising when a dog was being playful or threatening, or feeling fear, scientists discovered.

For the study, 40 volunteers listened to different growls recorded from 18 dogs that were guarding their food, facing a threatening stranger, or playing a tug-of-war game.

Overall, participants correctly classified 63 per cent of the growl samples - significantly more than would be expected by guesswork alone, said the researchers....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/16/dogs-can-talk-humans-study-suggests/

[geronl]

we are just too stupid to understand

"Look, you aren't fenced in, why aren't you chasing that squirrel?"

[Wingnut]

[RoosGirl]

My dogs have different barks for different things; squirrel bark, mailman bark, food bark, play bark, etc.

[Idiot]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[Oceander]

I hate barking!

[Smokin Joe]

My dogs have different barks for different things; squirrel bark, mailman bark, food bark, play bark, etc.

Ours is half husky, half Lab (webbed toes, curled tail) and whistles as well as barks. Very different sounds for 'someone I know is here' 'Someone I know and am very happy to see is here', mailman (what is it with that), another dog, someone I don't know (challenge bark), I want to go out, I want to come in, and playful sounds along with get away from the dish!.

[INVAR]

Wonder how much money was spent on this "study"??

Any dog owner would be able to tell you that they 'talk' to us and offer evidence and proof without so much as a plum nickel having to be spent on it.

[Smokin Joe]

Wonder how much money was spent on this "study"??

Any dog owner would be able to tell you that they 'talk' to us and offer evidence and proof without so much as a plum nickel having to be spent on it.

True, that. In any given day, I could get at least four of the common communication sounds, and there are at least a dozen. One of the most vocal dogs we've had, second only to the wolf/shepherd cross I had many years ago. She would talk to me with a combination of sounds and gestures. She was the smartest dog I ever had, too--this one is second.

[roamer_1]

True, that. In any given day, I could get at least four of the common communication sounds, and there are at least a dozen. One of the most vocal dogs we've had, second only to the wolf/shepherd cross I had many years ago. She would talk to me with a combination of sounds and gestures. She was the smartest dog I ever had, too--this one is second.

I am partial to Malamute/Shepherd/Wolf crosses - Mountain bred dogs, over 125 lbs...  Sled dogs are easily a hundred times more vocal than other breeds... and actually DO talk to you (and I miss that so very much).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXo3NFqkaRM

But if all you are looking at is vocalizations, you're missing more than half of how a dog talks. Almost every one of mine, when they mean it, aren't making a sound at all, or just a low growl. The tail and the stance say more than the bark ever could.

[Smokin Joe]

I am partial to Malamute/Shepherd/Wolf crosses - Mountain bred dogs, over 125 lbs...  Sled dogs are easily a hundred times more vocal than other breeds... and actually DO talk to you (and I miss that so very much).

But if all you are looking at is vocalizations, you're missing more than half of how a dog talks. Almost every one of mine, when they mean it, aren't making a sound at all, or just a low growl. The tail and the stance say more than the bark ever could.

True, that. Posture has a lot to do with it, as does facial expression.

[Salamander]

Wonder how much money was spent on this "study"??

Any dog owner would be able to tell you that they 'talk' to us and offer evidence and proof without so much as a plum nickel having to be spent on it.

Ain't that the truth.

Yeesh.

Next thing you know, they'll be getting paid to tell us that dogs understand us.

:::rolls eyes:::

[Salamander]

I am partial to Malamute/Shepherd/Wolf crosses - Mountain bred dogs, over 125 lbs...  Sled dogs are easily a hundred times more vocal than other breeds... and actually DO talk to you (and I miss that so very much).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXo3NFqkaRM

But if all you are looking at is vocalizations, you're missing more than half of how a dog talks. Almost every one of mine, when they mean it, aren't making a sound at all, or just a low growl. The tail and the stance say more than the bark ever could.

One of the many things gutting me right now, is that Odin [actually called Bubby] is no longer here for the howls.
There's a commercial about fire prevention that has a tinny, rinky-dink piano soundtrack and he always looked at me with big eyes and then started to howl.
Then Djinni would howl and Gypsy would shriek, because she can't really howl, properly.
And then I'd join in and we'd have a 5 minute howl fest that ended with me laughing and them all full of wagging tails.

It came on a couple nights after he died [and I don't care if you think I'm mad, because by now, I no doubt am] and I started to howl...and then cry.
But the girls didn't join in.
I'm a poor substitute for Bubby, their howl leader.

Also, every time I came home, as soon as I came up the sidewalk, I would hear them howling a joyful greeting, in the living room.

When I come home now, it's so unbearably quiet.

How shall I ever find another dog like him?

:'(

[Sanguine]

One of the many things gutting me right now, is that Odin [actually called Bubby] is no longer here for the howls.
There's a commercial about fire prevention that has a tinny, rinky-dink piano soundtrack and he always looked at me with big eyes and then started to howl.
Then Djinni would howl and Gypsy would shriek, because she can't really howl, properly.
And then I'd join in and we'd have a 5 minute howl fest that ended with me laughing and them all full of wagging tails.

It came on a couple nights after he died [and I don't care if you think I'm mad, because by now, I no doubt am] and I started to howl...and then cry.
But the girls didn't join in.
I'm a poor substitute for Bubby, their howl leader.

Also, every time I came home, as soon as I came up the sidewalk, I would hear them howling a joyful greeting, in the living room.

When I come home now, it's so unbearably quiet.

How shall I ever find another dog like him?

:'(

No words of wisdom for you, Salamander.  So sorry.

We just go on.

[Cripplecreek]

Mine aren't terribly barky but they do communicate effectively. They also learn and understand my actions pretty effectively.

When I put the lanyard with my key card around my neck they know I'm planning to leave them alone. They figured that out within a week.

[Cripplecreek]

One of the many things gutting me right now, is that Odin [actually called Bubby] is no longer here for the howls.
There's a commercial about fire prevention that has a tinny, rinky-dink piano soundtrack and he always looked at me with big eyes and then started to howl.
Then Djinni would howl and Gypsy would shriek, because she can't really howl, properly.
And then I'd join in and we'd have a 5 minute howl fest that ended with me laughing and them all full of wagging tails.

It came on a couple nights after he died [and I don't care if you think I'm mad, because by now, I no doubt am] and I started to howl...and then cry.
But the girls didn't join in.
I'm a poor substitute for Bubby, their howl leader.

Also, every time I came home, as soon as I came up the sidewalk, I would hear them howling a joyful greeting, in the living room.

When I come home now, it's so unbearably quiet.

How shall I ever find another dog like him?

:'(

You'll find another and love him or her just as much even though its different.

[Jazzhead]

Dogs are as smart as they need to be.  Baxie knows my morning routine with his eyes closed;  he stays upstairs while I change his water and do the dishes, but when I jingle my keys he races downstairs, knowing it's time for his walk. 

[Smokin Joe]

One of the many things gutting me right now, is that Odin [actually called Bubby] is no longer here for the howls.
There's a commercial about fire prevention that has a tinny, rinky-dink piano soundtrack and he always looked at me with big eyes and then started to howl.
Then Djinni would howl and Gypsy would shriek, because she can't really howl, properly.
And then I'd join in and we'd have a 5 minute howl fest that ended with me laughing and them all full of wagging tails.

It came on a couple nights after he died [and I don't care if you think I'm mad, because by now, I no doubt am] and I started to howl...and then cry.
But the girls didn't join in.
I'm a poor substitute for Bubby, their howl leader.

Also, every time I came home, as soon as I came up the sidewalk, I would hear them howling a joyful greeting, in the living room.

When I come home now, it's so unbearably quiet.

How shall I ever find another dog like him?

:'(

When you are looking, let him pick you. It makes a difference.

[skeeter]

One of the many things gutting me right now, is that Odin [actually called Bubby] is no longer here for the howls.
There's a commercial about fire prevention that has a tinny, rinky-dink piano soundtrack and he always looked at me with big eyes and then started to howl.
Then Djinni would howl and Gypsy would shriek, because she can't really howl, properly.
And then I'd join in and we'd have a 5 minute howl fest that ended with me laughing and them all full of wagging tails.

It came on a couple nights after he died [and I don't care if you think I'm mad, because by now, I no doubt am] and I started to howl...and then cry.
But the girls didn't join in.
I'm a poor substitute for Bubby, their howl leader.

Also, every time I came home, as soon as I came up the sidewalk, I would hear them howling a joyful greeting, in the living room.

When I come home now, it's so unbearably quiet.

How shall I ever find another dog like him?

:'(

Bubby sounds just like my Milton.

I can only imagine how you feel right now - but my turn'll come in a few years, unfortunately.

[roamer_1]

How shall I ever find another dog like him?

:'(

You won't Sal.
Chico, Max, Windy, Charlie, CharlieBrown (Brown), Moses, and Chewy. All different, every one.

And every one tore my heart to pieces when they went (all but Chewy who is still here)
Every one, irreplaceable, but somehow 'replaced' by the next... Within two or three weeks...

Seems to me, the thing that starts the healing is to get another one. No dog will ever fill that hole in your heart the same way... But it will fill the hole.

And it hurts so damn bad that you swear  you'll never get that attached to anything again. But then that new pup will weasel in there, and start putting you back together. The only thing to sooth the loss of a dog, is another dog. 

[thackney]

How shall I ever find another dog like him?

You won't.  But love for and from another can provide immense healing.

I took me a couple years to allow another dog after loosing both Greyhounds to bone cancer, one year apart.  I hope you don't wait that long.

[Salamander]

I've been kinda quiet since I posted that.

Ruminating and all that.

But I have a deposit on a pup and will be going to get him in 2 or 3 weeks.

I wish I could have let a pup choose me but the place is just too far away to be traveling to, more often than absolutely necessary.

The kennel people know what I need the dog to be and out of 5 pups, they recommended one for me.

After all this time [my God, has he been gone a month already??] you'd think I'd be overjoyed and excited to be getting a pup.

But instead, I cried.

It was yet another thing that made Bubby's death 'more real'.

If I'm about to put another dog in his place on the sofa, he really isn't ever coming back and this is not a very long, very bad dream.

An awful lot of conflicting emotions.

Thank you ALL for sharing your own heart-dog stories.

It makes me feel less crazy, to know others love their dogs "too much", too.

I almost forgot, but here is the new little guy [I have *no* idea how to resize this ginormous image, sorry]



<Pic resized>

[Cripplecreek]

My dog's barks are all pretty much the same, its the body language that I understand.

[Sanguine]

I've been kinda quiet since I posted that.

Ruminating and all that.

But I have a deposit on a pup and will be going to get him in 2 or 3 weeks.

I wish I could have let a pup choose me but the place is just too far away to be traveling to, more often than absolutely necessary.

The kennel people know what I need the dog to be and out of 5 pups, they recommended one for me.

After all this time [my God, has he been gone a month already??] you'd think I'd be overjoyed and excited to be getting a pup.

But instead, I cried.

It was yet another thing that made Bubby's death 'more real'.

If I'm about to put another dog in his place on the sofa, he really isn't ever coming back and this is not a very long, very bad dream.

An awful lot of conflicting emotions.

Thank you ALL for sharing your own heart-dog stories.

It makes me feel less crazy, to know others love their dogs "too much", too.

I almost forgot, but here is the new little guy [I have *no* idea how to resize this ginormous image, sorry]



<Pic resized>

@Salamander, he's beautiful!  Look at those big feet.  Congratulations.

[Salamander]

Many thanks to "Mod2" for shrinking that thing!

:)

Yeah, he's a cutie.

He'll grow into those feet.

/scary thought

:D