Dogs love their owners.  They have evolved to prefer being in human company, and this has become a beautiful arrangement for humans as well.  This collaboration provides an opportunity for mutual protection, regular meals, and love…always a good thing.

Here are some signs that your amazing, wonderful, four-legged fur-baby loves you:

  • He/she is excited to see you.  Don’t you love it when they are there at the door, smiling and wagging their tail
  • He/she makes eye contact (but too much is aggressive so if he/she averts his/her gaze after a while, that is normal)
  • Smiling and Laughing:  Yes!  Scientists have proven that they mimic us and feel our positive emotion, and then replicate it.  See my earlier blog…my dog, Huxley is a big smiler and laugher.
  • Sharing their toys with you.  Sometimes it is not so pretty if you have a hound or another dog with a prey drive.  My Daschunds would drop dead animal parts at my feet and then look at me funny when I screamed.  Thankfully my Bernadoodle just wants to love other animals.  He cannot understand why my son’s cat, Cleo, hisses at him when he runs rapidly over to try to play with her.
  • Checking on you.
  • Leaning against you and making physical contact, including sleeping with you.
  • Rolling over, exposing his/her belly.
  • Wagging his/her tail:  a moderate wag indicates happiness, where a quick whipping means excitement!
  • Looking genuinely excited to see you…waiting at the door.
  • Licking you.
  • Recognizing your name and getting excited when they hear it

Enjoy the love and pass it on…your dog would be so happy with you!  Be the type of person your dog thinks you are.

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