As practice shows, not everyone knows how a dog perceives stroking on the head. Especially someone else’s.
When meeting with an unfamiliar dog, many people strive to establish contact with it through tactile sensations, so they try to pet the animal. Can you pet a dog on the head? Not everyone knows the correct answer.
For a person, a gesture is friendly: with its help, we show love, location, attention. But the dog reads this signal in a slightly different way. In nature, wolves and wild dogs have a certain system of signs. If one of them demonstrates his dominant position, then he puts his paw on the head of a competitor who understands in this way that he is defeated.
Obviously, in a relationship with a person, the dog is not too comfortable to often feel his dependence. If the dog is unfamiliar to you, you should definitely not stroke its head. Sometimes, experts say, such a gesture is acceptable. If your pet is okay with this kind of attention, then you can (sometimes) pat him on the head.
And remember: the dog cannot condemn your behavior with words, he has other methods for this. If you notice that the animal is pressing its ears and tail, do not continue to touch its head. Other dogs are completely capable of getting angry in such a case and trying to bite. So it’s better to choose other places to show your love by stroking the animal – the stomach, chin, withers, chest area, writes BB.LV.
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