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Did you see
The New York Times story about the study that discovered your dog is doing more than just wagging his tail when he wags his tail? The study, out of Italy, describes dog body language is so predictable that when a dog wags his tail more to the right of his rump, it means he is feeling fundamentally positive about something. When he wags the tail to the left, it means he has negative feelings about something. Researchers know that the left side of the brain of most animals specializes in behaviors like approach and energy enrichment while the right side side of the brain specializes in withdrawal and using energy. But those doing the tail study wondered what would happen with the tail, which is smack dab in the middle of the dog's body. Well, they recruited family pets of mixed breeds and put them in front of cages that had cameras trained on their tails. Then they showed them stimuli like their owners, a strange human, a benign approachable cat and an unfamiliar dominant dog.See the full content of this document
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What's in a Wag? It All Depends On the Direction
When the dogs saw their owners, the tails wagged more to the right. Ditto wit...
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