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Angus does this too. Mind you, he's never destroyed anything (knock wood!!) but if he's been sucking on dirty sock from the laundry and he hears one of us coming, he puts the sock back & runs to sit by his crate with *that face*.If I walk in my front door and the three dogs don't coming running to see me, I know something in the family room has been reduced to rubble. Every time, without fail.
If they don't grasp the fact that they have done something wrong, why the different greeting? I don't know walking in the door that something has been destroyed so my reaction to seeing them won't be any different than it always is, and yet no dogs at the front door means they are sitting under the kitchen table looking nervous.
Same here, and it's always the dog that did something wrong that isn't at the door!If I walk in my front door and the three dogs don't coming running to see me, I know something in the family room has been reduced to rubble. Every time, without fail.
If they don't grasp the fact that they have done something wrong, why the different greeting? I don't know walking in the door that something has been destroyed so my reaction to seeing them won't be any different than it always is, and yet no dogs at the front door means they are sitting under the kitchen table looking nervous.
I agree, they do know when they do something wrong. That's different than what they did in this 'test.' You were not reacting at all. But this test had people get mad at their dogs for not doing anything, and the dogs reacted to the anger. I know when we holler at Champ for counter surfing, Buddy will run into his crate, when he wasn't even in the same room! When you get mad at a dog, they know the signs and the tone of voice and will slink down, show signs of 'feeling bad,' even when they are innocent. The test subjects were saying the reaction to their anger was proof of guilt, when in fact it was not.If I walk in my front door and the three dogs don't coming running to see me, I know something in the family room has been reduced to rubble. Every time, without fail.
If they don't grasp the fact that they have done something wrong, why the different greeting? I don't know walking in the door that something has been destroyed so my reaction to seeing them won't be any different than it always is, and yet no dogs at the front door means they are sitting under the kitchen table looking nervous.