Reagan's been doing a wierd thing.

He's been snapping. At first I thought he was snapping at me, and at people and otherwise being naughty. Then a few times I was watching him laying down and noticed he'd snap his teeth a few times without any stimulus around him. I started watching him more often and noticed he does it in his crate too, when he's resting. He doesn't make any noise when he does this, aside from the clipping noise his teeth make, and he never has any particular expression… Continue

I was thinking about the fact that there's a tendency in the dog behavior community to treat dogs like tame wolves, and use wolf behavior as analog to dog behavior. Then I hear on the other side that wolf behavior ISN'T dog behavior and that dogs are much more than tame wolves, they are something all on their own. So then, what behaviors are analogous to dog behaviors.



Then I remembered that I read that the process of domesticating canines produces pronounced neoteny, and that dogs… Continue