Dogs can be said to be one of the first animals to appear in human life, from the appearance of dogs in human society and were domesticated until now tens of thousands of years have passed. At first, the role of dogs in the family was to guard the door, protect the owner, and help the owner hunt, and now that the pet dog has developed, the role of the dog has changed more into companionship.
The experience of living together for tens of thousands of years has made dogs the most accepted pets and animals that people know the most. Dogs have also become more adapted to human society in tens of thousands of years, and many habits have been different from those of their ancestor wolves, which have changed according to human life, but they still retain some primitive instincts.
Many of the actions that seem incomprehensible to us are actually their instincts, although this instinct seems to have little meaning now, but they are still retained, even the pet dogs that are bred in the later stages. The pet owner comes to help his dog check in and see if his dog has kept a few.
Howling in the middle of the night
Dogs are ancestors of wolves, and wolves themselves howl in the middle of the night to summon wolves to hunt, or to find a mate, sometimes to drive other wolves into their territory. Now many dogs have also retained this habit, and they will howl at the moon at night.
And many dogs howl also sound like wolves, such as huskies, as well as our Chinese pastoral dogs, big wolf dogs, howling sounds very similar to wolves.
By now, dogs howling wolf is nothing more than calling for a partner and looking for a mate, more often expressing their loneliness and boredom.
Planing holes in the ground
In the ground, one is to store food, and the other is to make yourself cooler.
In the wild, after the wolf hunts, if the prey has not finished eating, the wolf will find a hidden place to dig a hole and store the meat pieces. Food in the wild is the guarantee of survival, and no one can guarantee that the next meal will have such good luck to catch prey.
When the weather is too hot in the summer, they will also plan a hole to lie in and lower their body temperature.
This habit has been with dogs until now, although pet dogs will not lack food now, but if they encounter food they particularly like to eat, or they especially like toys, they will also make the action of digging holes, trying to find a place to hide these things.
Fear of heights
Wolves are burrowing animals that basically move in low places and are not adapted to high environments.
Most dogs are afraid of heights, and this can be seen from the videos we have seen training dogs, when the dog climbs high alone, the dog is often afraid to move forward. And dog owners should find that dogs rarely jump as high as cats.
The hierarchy is automatically divided
This is well understood, the dog at home will quickly judge their position in the home and the position of each member of the family through the various performances of the family members and the relationship between family members.
If the hostess at home is more aggressive, saying one or the other, the dog will make a difference between the hostess's attitude and other people. They will be more respectful of the hostess, very obedient, and less good at talking to other people.
So if you want to know how old you are in the family, just look at the dog's attitude towards you.
Loved the poop
There is a saying called dogs can't change eating, which is a saying that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and dogs really eat.
But don't think about it so disgustingly, because the poop is in the eyes of the dog, just a nutritious substance with a different shape and smell.
Maybe when the dog sees you eating durian, you still think, don't you usually hate this kind of thing? Don't let me eat it yet, now how do you eat it so deliciously?
In addition to the nutritional value that poop can provide in the eyes of dogs, behavioral reinforcement is also a reason. If every time the owner sees the dog defecating at home, he will start to scold the dog, the dog will find a way to hide the poop, such as eating it, so that the owner will not find out, and it will not be beaten.
In the wild, the greater the smell of the wolf, the more prey it has eaten, which is an affirmation of its ability.
Dogs still retain this habit, they think that making themselves stinky means that they are more powerful, and later see other dogs can also deter other dogs, so dogs will like to poop.
Ride across the behavior
That's right, it's the classic action of Teddy, known as "Tai Ri Tian", riding across. In fact, this behavior is found in many dogs, but it is not as obvious as Teddy's performance.
The dog's riding behavior is more often not lustful, it is their way of expressing enthusiasm, expressing their warm welcome to a new partner, and it is a very happy performance of the dog.
While this behavior is really embarrassing, it is also one of the instinctive behaviors of dogs. If you want to be less embarrassed, you have to teach well from an early age.
How many of these six primitive instincts of dogs are in your dog?