by montana wildhack <montana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jul 1, 2008 at 01:54 PM
On 2008-07-01 12:39:10 -0400, "Harlett O'Dowd"
<chris.connelly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> At the time I thought it was some sort of submissive behavior on the
> part of the puppy, perhaps a request for food. But now the lab is over
> five and no longer a puppy, but he still does it all the time.
I think there are a lot of different things going on with this behavior
and from what I have observed, I cannot call it submissive behavior -
although it can be.
This is a way that dogs communicate with each other and it appears to
me to be too complex to assign it one or two meanings. Context can be a
key. So, is it submissive? A challenge? An acknowledgement? A greeting?
I don't think there's one answer.
