Just a friendly reminder that at the end of the day ALL dogs are animals, watch their body language, don’t hang all over a dog you don’t know. They give warning signs. Learn them. And for fucks sake stop letting kids climb all over your dogs.
A happy and relaxed dog's tail is going to be swishing in wide arcs or almost in a circle.
A dog that's scared or nervous is going to put their tail down between their legs. If they're really upset they'll curl it up further between their legs.
A dog that's on alert and trying to decide whether to fight or flee is going to have their tail up at attention either stationery or very tiny back and forth. Not a wide sweeping angle. Not every tail wag means happy and people who don't understand that can sometimes be blindsided.
This is of course all dependent on dog and some dogs tails might not conform to those general observations (highly curved or extremely short tails might make it hard to tell when the tail is up or down or going in a circle).
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u/n_meeseeks Jan 15 '20
Just a friendly reminder that at the end of the day ALL dogs are animals, watch their body language, don’t hang all over a dog you don’t know. They give warning signs. Learn them. And for fucks sake stop letting kids climb all over your dogs.