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Old 06-03-2010, 01:48 PM
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Default Re: Question: Why do dogs run in circles?

Furkids,

This article (as well as your earlier post on this thread) highlights an unfortunate tendency amongst us humans to misinterpret animal behaviour.

I expect that most people, upon seeing a dog running in circles or chasing its tail, find it a funny behaviour. It amuses us, because it seems pointless, or a case of the dog joyously entertaining itself. We're so busy smiling and laughing that we may not stop to consider that it indicates a health or behavioural problem.

Likewise, when my cat would rub the sides of her face against my shins, I misinterpreted that as purely a sign of affection. Only after some reading did I realise that she's really marking me as part of her territory. Or as her property. Say, for example, as her slave.

Anyway, thank you for posting this serious information on dog behaviour in the middle of DIMB's thread. (Come on, DIMB -- what with all the possible causes in Furkids' articles, you must be at 20 reasons or more by now! )

And now that I know what CIMB stands for, I may have to change banks!

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