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    Discover the Secret to Understanding Your Dog and How It Will Help to Optimize Your Dog Training A big part of dog training is understanding your dog's body language and mood. Like us, they have their good days and their bad days.  Sometimes we want to learn and other days we are not so inclined to. Well, same goes for our dogs.    As humans, we communicate with one another through verbal and non-verbal communications.  We have use of our words, facial expressions, body language and tone of voice to get our message across.  It can be "ruff" for your dog to communicate all the things they want to convey to you. So how can you determine how they are feeling? The following information will help guide you so you have a better understanding when it comes time to train your dog.  They express their emotions through posture, facial expressions, body movements, and vocally like barking, whining, whimpering, growling and howling (but we'll save that for another future post

  How To Read Your Dogs Body Language Photo by  Blue Bird  from  Pexels As humans, we communicate with one another through verbal and non-verbal communications.  We have use of our words, facial expressions, body language and tone of voice to get our message across.  It can be "ruff" for your dog to communicate all the things they want to convey to you. They express their emotions through posture, facial expressions, body movements, and vocally like barking, whining, whimpering, growling and howling (but we'll save that for another future post 😃). Understanding their body language can be beneficial to help identify what emotion they are feeling and/or what their intentions are.  Communication and connecting is what makes the bond stronger between you and your pet.  Like you, they feel the same emotions- happy, sad, anger, joy, fear, anxiety, stress and more.  As a dog lover and previous owner of two chihuahuas (not at the same time), I feel it is important to take the ti