Calming Signals

I havnt read or heard about that book but would be very intersted to read it.

The most common calming signals I see in my home is yawning.

Did it say anything about excessive licking of the mouth between two dogs? Even mentioned as not a calming signal but as some kind of communication. Lately I've been very aware of Rory doing this when she wants Primo to get out of her way or to make him move so she can get closer to me. Its almsot her way of politely saying move, LOL

I don't recall anything about one dog licking another related to calming.  But, it makes sense that it is Rory's way of communicating something to Primo.  I see Heidi doing that to Buddy and it looks like a submissive signal to me when I see it.  More so when he has something she wants...LOL. 

You should get the book...its very enlightening. 

 Oh yeah, it's a fantastic book!  It helped me tons at the dog park to read other dogs' intentions towards my dog and to read how my dog was handling things.  There are days when I go there and just the body language of the dogs inside who aren't known to me will have me heading for the hills.  It's too bad more people don't have it, it can give you such wonderful insight into your dog's mind! 

  Woobie's not very food or toy motivated and that made counter-conditioning VERY HARD.  This book helped me still do counter-conditioning exercises and just read his changes in body language to know when we reached the threshold of what he was comfortable with.

  It's definitely a must have for anyone who wants to understand their dog.
 

It is a great book. She also has one called My Dog Pulls that is very good.

she has a DVD out now on calming signals that I am dying to get hold of.

Really?!  That would be awesome to see...I'll have to check Amazon.com.

dgriego

It is a great book. She also has one called My Dog Pulls that is very good.

Dang!  Really???  I gotta get that one! 

 I blame you people for my credit card bill.

Eko was out of food, so we stopped by the pet store after the dog park. And they had the pulling book AND the dvd. Which I had to buy. Or impulsively did. And I got giddy and threw in a pamphlet by Suzanne Clothier on power and relationships.

DARN YOU IDOG!!!!!!!!!! 

Dog_ma

 I blame you people for my credit card bill.

Ditto!! Except... I bought Calming Signals before this thread started. Too funny though, I seriously ordered it the day before. It's supposed to come on Thursday. I'm not patient enough for this crap!

But yeah, I have a book shelves full of evidence of my credit card bills. I don't buy myself clothes, nooo I wear $5 t-shirts until they have holes in the armpits, or the collars are literally falling apart... I sure don't buy shoes. I have one pair of $9 sneakers. I don't buy electronics..nope I have a 12 year old TV that makes a high-pitched squealing noise about 50% of the time (that my sister gave me 5 years ago), and a DVD player that works occasionally (that my cousin gave me). I don't buy gourmet food...nope I buy rice-a-roni. But books?? OH I BUY BOOKS! And dog stuff. It's kind of a problem.

Hello, my name is CoBuHe, and I am a dog stuffaholic.

Hello CoBuHe...applause, applause, applause. 

I shall only take 1/16th of the blame for your credit card purchases.  The remainder of the blame goes for my own impulsive dog stuff purchases.  Yep, its a problem for me too.

My DH told me the other day that he knows now that HE has been inched down on the love-o-meter at our house.  He says that I pay more attention to the dogs than to him.  Wah, Wah, Wah, I say.    That may be true, but at least I haven't graduated the dogs to the bed; and demoted him to the floor................yet.  LOL

The licking of the mouth is a submissive gesture. When the momma wolf comes back from a hunt, the pups gather around and lick her mouth which stimulates her to regurgitate the partially digested food. That's how pups got fed in the stage between nursing and being old enough to go on the hunt.

The licking is a hold over from that behavior.

I also saw on a show about wolf packs that the members of the pack do it to one another depending on rank and to appease one another if there's tension.

I totally buy too many books, dogs and otherwise.  I'm cleaning out my attic and the containers with the most items are the ones marked "Books".  What's really sad is that most of them are computer books for software or languages no longer used or so drastically updated in the past 2-3 years since I bought them that they are completely obsolete!  And these were NOT CHEAP!  Some of them, I should be able to sell, but the textbooks have also gone to new editions and are likely useless as well.  I wish there was something useful I could do with them besides recycling them.  The only books I see offered at Goodwill and Sal Army around here are cookbooks and romance novels.

And the dog stuff budget is outta control!  I'm forcing myself not to buy elevated beds I saw at an online site I frequent.  The dogs lay around on the couch most of the time, they DO NOT need elevated beds!!!  Besides, I'm saving the money for training classes.