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thankfully, she wasn’t seriously hurt. but the incident had legs for about a week afterwards — every time she called, she asked how my “little monster” was. and my kids had some fun joking about theories around the supposed abilities of dogs to sniff out aliens , bombs and ghosts which could have explained zeke’s need to make a scene. (dogs apparently can also predict natural disasters .)
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gallant , a website for veterinarians, echoes this opinion, pointing out that when dogs meet each other initially, they are generally chilled out at first, “pretending not to care, looking elsewhere, and often approaching sideways.” but humans tend to do the opposite when meeting a dog, “staring directly at the dog, moving towards it with open arms, typically using some high-pitched voice, baring teeth in a grin and making lots of squeaky noises.” if a dog did the same thing, according to the site, you “would have the bully of the dog park.”
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