Dog Training Tips : How to Read a Dog’s Tail Wag
Hi this is Ryan Gwilliam with Expert Village
and I’m going to teach you how to read your
dog’s body language. A big misconception is
that if your dog’s tale is waging, is that
he’s happy. Alot of dogs wag their tales when
they are ready to attack as well, so the big
thing to notice is where your dog’s tail is.
Like if his tail is tucked, then he’s afraid
and you should not be petting him at that
time and you should not be petting him at
that time. You never pet a dog when he is
afraid, because that will make him more afraid.
If it is laying loosey like this, this is
just normal. When he’s waging his tail and
it’s out here in the middle, that means he’s
happy, that’s a normal state of mind. When
the tail starts to go up and it starts to
wag like this, your dog is probably in a more
aggressive state of mind. Another thing about
dogs, when you’re walking them, you’ll see
their ears perk up, if their ears perk up,
that’s them paying more attention. But you
can see a lot of times that they will get
this intense stare when they are fixating
on something and when they are fixating on
something, that’s when you need to correct
them because that’s them being obsessed with
that object whether it be a person, or another
dog, or anything like that. So, it’s ok for
dogs to look and be curious, but if they get
that intense obssessive stare, then it’s going
to be threatened.
