Date Me, Date My Dog by Leigh Anne Jasheway

Author:Leigh Anne Jasheway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Date Me, Date My Dog
ISBN: Date_Me_Date_My_Dog
Publisher: Reputation Books
Published: 2013-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Listen When Your Dog Speaks

You’ve jumped over all the obstacles, sniffed the right spots, and now you’re ready to start dating. If only there was someone around who could help you decide right from the very beginning whether a guy is right for you…There is, of course. The problem is you don’t speak dog.

As much as you may think you know your dog, your dog knows much more about you and any human he or she comes in contact with. Alexandra Horowitz, author of the bestselling Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, calls dogs “canine anthropologists” for their ability to discover things about humans that we have no clue about. Did you know a dog’s sense of smell is estimated to be approximately 100,000 times better than ours? Some dogs are able to smell a human fingerprint on a glass slide that has been left outside for weeks!For a dog to use his nose to sort out men who are best in breed from those who should wear “Beware of Attack Man” signs is not that big of an olfactory stretch.

It’s not just their superior noses that lead dogs to be better at knowing us than we are at knowing them. They are also very talented at reading human communication signals. Even young puppies are better than chimpanzees (our closest relatives) at figuring out what humans are saying through body language, facial expressions, and behavior. This is why your dog knows when you are going to the store and will be back soon and when you are going to be gone forever in dog years. The smell of perfume, the zip of the luggage, and the smell of guilt in your perspiration are all dead giveaways.

Sir Pumpkin Longshanks can also tell when someone is under stress. He does this by noticing changes in breathing, tensing of muscles, and erratic eye movement common to those who are guilty or lying (or have just had their pupils dilated at the ophthalmologist’s office). Clearly our dogs can tell us a thing or two about the people we invite into our lives if only we knew how to interpret what they were saying.

Many of us rely on our dogs to help us choose repairmen and contractors. If our dog goes crazy while someone is giving us a bid, we’re often smart enough to make a different selection. I recently had three men give me a bid for putting in carpet in my office. My dogs clearly preferred one to the other two (they stopped barking at him much quicker and even let him pet them). I chose the doggy-approved contractor and was thrilled with the job he did and how nice he was to my dogs and me while he was here. He even vacuumed my new carpet before he left!

When it comes to affairs of the heart, however, we often ignore the signals our dogs are giving us.

Human:What is it, girl? Did Timmy fall down the well again?

Canine:No, no, no! That guy you hired to fix the dishwasher is shifty.

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