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Dog Senses: Amazing stories of Dog ESP

Dog Senses have always amazed scientists.  There are some truly unbelievable stories of dogs displaying extraordinary dog senses.  Do dogs have ESP? These amazing cases were thoroughly checked out and authenticated.

(1) One famous story of these amazing dog senses is the one about a famous Shepherd named Prince. During the first World War, Prince swam across the English Channel in order to find his owner in one of the many trenches in France. This story became very famous and received international
acclaim.

(2) Another story is of a man who took off in his small privately owned plane from a Georgia airport to travel to New England. The pilot left his dog at home with his family. Unfortunately the plane crashed. The dog’s owner was found by a local farmer. He was found unconscious but alive and was taken to the hospital where he eventually regained his consciousness twelve hours later.

Mean while back home in Georgia, during the time of the crash, the dog disappeared under the house. With a flashlight he could be seen lying motionless, dazed, and unresponsive. He remained in this state the entire time his owner was unconscious. When his owner regained consciousness, the dog came out from under the house,
ate, and appeared perfectly normal.

(3) Lastly is a story of a stray, mixed-breed Dog named Daisy. She charmed herself to a New York City family on vacation at a lake approximately thirty miles from the city. The family befriended her and gave her all the food and love she demanded. After a short time, Daisy delivered four healthy puppies, which also received the love and care of the adopted family.

At the end of the Summer the family had to return to home in New York, they gave Daisy and her puppies to a permanent resident neighbor. They felt that Daisy and her puppies would be better off in the freedom and space that the country offers, rather than their City apartment.

Nearly three weeks after they returned home, they heard a scratching at the apartment door. When they opened it, and there was Daisy, carrying one of the puppies in her mouth. It was a happy reunion to say the least.

Daisy then disappeared the very next day. The family searched everywhere, but found no sign of Daisy. to everyone’s surprise, five days later, Daisy returned with yet another puppy. This continued until she had her four puppies at the home in New York.

Nobody has a clue how Daisy was able to locate the family in an apartment she had never seen or been in. Not to mention in the City of New York. Nobody seems to have an answer, it seems that ESP could be the only answer.  These stories really speak volumes to the ability of a dog’s senses.

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Dog Senses: Dog ESP?

Dog senses that are above and beyond the normal sight, smell, taste, and feeling are known as ESP or extrasensory.  This is thought to be observed by dog owners when they sense that their dog is reading their mind or by giving signs that they know what’s coming next.  It is said that ESP can only occur if the dog and dog owner have a strong bond of love.

Research into this extra dog sense has been done at the Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory in North Carolina.  Dr. Rhine let his research team to determine if the ESP phenomenon that exists in humans, also exists in animals.  Similar research has been carried out by two respected Russian scientists: Bkhterev and Durov.

With the word of this dog esp research getting out, Dr. Rhine’s laboratory was flooded with reports of others who have observed this extra sense in their own pets.  Several reported observing this extra sense in their fish and cats but most of the reports were around pet dogs having this extra sense.

Most of the reports of an extra Dog sense involve a homing ability or the ability of the dog to find its family even if several thousand miles separate them.

one inspiring case is that of a mixed-breed dog named Henry. Henry was left with friends in Illinois when his family relocated to Michigan. Several weeks later, Henry enthusiastically greeted his family on a street corner of their new town in Michigan.

The dog made it perfectly clear that he was looking at his family, and the stunned family was convinced that the dog was their beloved pet Henry. But was this dog Henry? The Illinois family, with whom Henry had been left, drove to Michigan to satisfy their doubts. Dr. Rhine and his staff from Duke University flew to Michigan to verify the story. After investigation it was confirmed that this dog was indeed their beloved Henry.

Another well know case around this extra dog sense involves a dog named Bob. This Collie’s “homing” feat gained him fame from all over the world, lots of fan mail, and even a movie. Bob’s adventure started out as a vacation motor trip from Oregon to the East Coast. On the way back to Oregon, Bob’s family realized that their beloved pet was gone.

After the family exhausted all searching efforts, the heartbroken family drove back to Oregon – nearly 2,500 miles. One of Bob’s most charming tricks was to hold up his right front paw when he was hungry. After four months Bob presented himself at the door of his home in Oregon – holding up his right paw.

These examples make it difficult to dispute the existence of these extra Dog senses.

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Dog Head Tilt: Why Do Pet Dogs Do This?

Most people have seen a dog or two that have turned or cocked their head slightly when they’re being spoken too.  Although this is very cute, there are some very good reasons for the “cute” behavior.

The most practical reason for a dog head tilt is:

A dog will often cock or tilt their head slightly in order to simply hear better. This simple re-positioning of the head positions the head and ear in a way that will create a wider, more open ear canal that, in turn, helps them hear better.

Another common reason that dogs will cock or tilt their head is:

Dogs will sometimes turn their head to receive a reward?  What kind of reward, you’re asking?  Well as mentioned above this “cute” behavior will sometimes lead to someone around this dog to go “Aawww look at that cute dog” or something along those lines.  So when a dog receives this type of response the dog is getting positive reinforcement that the turning of their head will not make them hear better, but will make them feel better.

Trying To Absorb Every Sound He Can

Dogs can understand part of our human language, but most of it is just a fuzzy blur to them. Almost like when a human hears a foreign language. Dogs cannot take in everything we say. But canines are very good at observing and becoming familiar with human tone of voice, body language as well as eye movement. Dogs can understand these things pretty well but when they are interested in something they will be looking for anything and everything to absorb including any and all minute sounds to help understand what is going on.

Different breeds of dogs also have different ear shapes and therefore every different dog type will hear sounds better from different positions.  This can lead to certain breeds of dogs tilting there heads more often than other breeds.

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Dog Vision: How Do Dogs See the World?

A dogs vision can be difficult to imagine.  It’s easy to just assume that dogs see the world just as humans see the world.  This is a long way from the truth. Your dogs vision is quite different than our vision.

Perspective and vision

One of the first things to take into consideration is that a dog’s proximity to the ground compared to humans is drastically different.  Just try it, get down on all fours and try and view the world from about 8 inches of the ground.  This alone can help you start to see the drastic differences between a dog’s point of view and yours.

A dogs vision also differs from humans in that dogs can see and focus on things that are near, but objects that are closer than a couple of feet are fuzzy.  Dog’s acute sense of smell and touch help them to make up for this shortcoming.  Dogs simply can’t see things that are close like humans can, this is why dogs sniff anything and everything that is near them.

Color

How a dog sees color also differs greatly from how humans see color.  Dogs can indeed see color but they see fewer colors than humans.  Where humans can see things in a  rainbow of color.  These colors include: Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, and many shades of all these colors. A dog’s color vision would be like this: Violet, Indigo, Blue, Yellow, Yellow (repeated intentionally), and Red  Furthermore, Orange, Yellow, and Green all look the exact same to a Dog but a dog can distinguish those colors from Purples, Blues, and Reds.  The color Blue-Green will cause the dog to see white, however, a canine can see the differences between Violet, Indigo, and Blue with competence.

Dogs & Motion

Movement is another aspect of a dog’s ability to see things. A dogs vision is similar to humans when it comes to seeing a non-moving hidden critter in a tree, but if it is moving and at a medium speed he will be at his best. Like playing with a tennis ball that is green and the green grass… No problem.

In some aspect a dogs seeing is similar to the seeing ability to humans, although dogs have an acute sense of hearing and smell that helps them excel – so don’t expect your dog to see the world the same way you do.

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Do Dogs Feel Emotions? – A look at Dog Psychology

Animal researchers have been continuously conducting studies to determine if dogs and other animals have emotions and feelings much like humans do.Regular everyday people like you and me could answer that question rather quickly with a resounding “Yes!”

Having grown up on the farm and spending most of my youth around many different farm animals including several different farm dogs, I can say that personally I know that dogs are capable of feeling and expressing several different emotions.

It seems to me that it’s pretty obvious by some of the physical signs dogs display, including how they wag
their tail, how they sound, how they move, and how they interact with other animals and humans.

It is easy to see that a dog gives an enormous amount of information as to what they are feeling on the inside. Researchers typically begin their studies with doubt and skepticism. The researchers start with the questions as to what it would feel like on the inside to be a dog.  Since this is not something that is easily scientifically observed and can’t put under a microscope, so to speak.  The idea of animals or dogs having complex feelings is often quickly dismissed.

Although, as time goes on, many people are beginning to be less skeptical about the idea of dogs having and feeling emotions. In fact, there are several research papers that are considered prestigious publications who have reported such findings that elephants can feel grief, mice have empathy, and rats can experience joy. These studies definitely
make a good argument for those of us who have “known” all along that dogs are perfectly capable of feeling emotions much like humans.

So having said that, Why have emotions evolved in certain species as adaptation tools to their environment? The answer could be in the possibility that these emotions have evolved to become somewhat of a “social sticky” which glues the bond between animals and each other for a variety of social reasons.

Many researchers also concluded that animals which are living as companions to humans, especially dogs, can develop specific emotions due to our relationship with them.  Several common emotional traits between humans and dogs have been identified and this is still more evidence that dogs do indeed feel emotions.

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