Dog Training - Dogs are Complex Creatures
Dogs are surprisingly complex creatures. Some?estimates?suggest the number of dog?breeds reaches as high as 800 in Western countries alone.???The variety is astonishing from a human perspective, who have, perhaps, a dozen ‘breeds’. ?Further complicating the picture? the well-known fact that dogs have descended from wolves.? ?As a consequence, there are behaviors that develop regardless of circumstances and some? common traits stand out. Dogs are predators. That doesn’t mean they necessarily hunt and attack every passing cat or rat, but the capacity is always in them.
With acute hearing and head muscles that allow precise orientation of their ears, dogs can pick up a range of sounds and locate the source quickly and with high accuracy. A dog’s field of vision is higher than that of humans. Their field of view has been estimated from 180-270 degrees, by comparison to a human’s 100-150 degrees, allowing them to track events better. And, of course, there’s that famous sense of smell. Citing figures such as having 25 times as many scent-receptor cells or being able to sense concentrations 100 million times smaller than humans conveys the fact one way.