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If your pet does
any of the behaviors
on the right,
he or she is communicating the body language
of love! |
- Pet Behavior Topic - |
The
Body Language of Pet Love |
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Does your cat...
Approach you with the tail
absolutely straight up in
the air?
Flop over on
his or her side as you approach?
Touch his or her nose to
your finger?
Purr when
you are near?
Look at you with eyes
half closed?
Raise her
rump when you pet her?
Knead on you?
Drool while
kneading you or while you
pet her?
Make social vocalizing sounds?
Rub her head on
you?
Lick you?
Urinate on your clothes
or bed?
Bring you a dead
animal?
Retrieve
objects? |
| No
one really knows what goes
on in the noggin' of a dog
or cat. However, you can
learn from watching your
pet's body
language. |
Does your dog...
Wag his tail while
relating to you?
Jump on you as a greeting?
Look at you fondly
while resting?
Lean on you?
Constantly touch you by
leaning or with a paw?
Usually rest near or
touching you.
Follow you room to
room?
Put his head under your
hand, asking for
touch?Protect you?
Lick you?
Paw at you?
Play bow (front paws
down, rump up.)
Check in with you
often when off leash
Retrieve for you?
Destroy your things, housesoil,
or bark when you're gone?
Seem to be obsessed about
being with you? |
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