Do
your dog has sixth sense?
Do dogs have extraordinary perception? Many
owners believe that their dogs have sixth sense.
This enables them to know, for example, when the family’s
children are approaching the house on their way home from
school, or to tell when it is time to go for a walk. Dogs
are also credited with telepathic abilities that enable them
to pick up their owners’ feeling.
Scientific evidence suggests that dogs have
an electromagnetic sense that makes them sensitive to earth
tremors and vibrations. Even during the recent Tsunami
episode, they smelt and try to escape out of that place. This
may help them to predict earthquakes and
find their way home across hundreds of miles.
The dog is a hunter and clearly differentiates
a friend from a foe. In general, they live in packs. The dog’s
five senses have therefore developed for these purposes-
- Sense of smell
- Excellent Sight
- Acute hearing
- Poorly defined taste
- Refined sense of touch
Sight
Laterally placed eyes in your pet provide good peripheral
vision that is used for chasing and hunting its prey.
It possess excellent sight to enable it to see the slightest
movement of potential prey.
Smell
Smell is the dog’s most important sense. Its sense of
smell is far beyond human comprehension with which it scents
game, territory odors, and even emotional
status of other animals.
Touch
The contact comfort of infancy that most mammals enjoy is
a life long pleasure in your pets. Pleasure of touch
is very important in any animal that use touch in the form
of licking or pawing, huddle together for warmth,
play together as a means of signaling rank among
the pack.
Taste
The sensation of taste is closely related to the smell of
the dog. But they have developed poorly defined taste, which
clearly implies that they eat things that other animals consider
offensive. Dogs have fewer taste buds than
do humans, and can only register tastes as pleasant, indifferent,
or unpleasant.
Hearing
It possesses acute hearing to distinguish sounds over great
distances. Hearing is almost pitch perfect
in your pets, for example allowing dogs to tell the difference
in car engine sounds produced even by similar models.
These are the important senses apart from
the sixth sense of your dog determines its efficiency. These
senses make the dogs as a good companion to humans.
"The
greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's."
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