[PyrNet-L] was: Girl that was bit now: bite inhibition

[Adrienne Wilder <draggon@STC.Net>]

Ann Wetherilt wrote:
> 
> I'm interested in Adrienne's (I think!) comment about "bite inhibition."
> We have noticed Paddington occasionally doing something that I wonder if
> is a result of this. Sometimes it's because he smells something really
> good on our hands and would maybe like to take a bite! He comes close and
> sniffs, and his teeth are literally chattering! 

Don't worry.
What you are seeing is nothing to do with bite inhibition.  
When dogs and cats both, come across smell that "excite: them they will 
inhale the oder through thier mouth.  They will often appear like they 
are grinning or showing teeth and some times they will flex theri 
cheeks, in cats, and in dots they will chatter theri teeth.  When in 
actuality they are "palleting" the smell.  
The nose of a dog is so sensitive that it can tell the age, sex, well 
being, reproductive status, and even mood of another dog just by 
sniffing its urn or feces.  Wehn we, as the dog's pack leaders, go out 
into the world, we bring back a mindboggeling amoung of information of 
where we have been and what we have been doing on out clothes, 
particularly our pants legs.  Our hands are often story tellers becasue 
we handle things, namely food. ;)  

In terms of male dogs with
> children, I wish those who say you can't trust one could see him with the
> children at the day school we visit. On one of our early visits, he
> approached a little boy who is deaf, blind, has no control over his limbs
> and/or muscles, and so has no way of communicating. Paddington sniffed him
> a little, then ever-so-gently licked his forehead, and the little boy got
> the biggest smile on his face. There wasn't a dry eye in the room. But oh,
> he knows the difference between the trustworthy kids in the neighborhood
> and those who tease him--I would not let him approach the latter too
> closely when I had him out on a leash. We had Paddington and Shelley with
> us at a B & B once, and they were socializing nicely with everyone there
> until a couple came in with their teenage son. Both dogs had been fine
> with the parents the night before, but it was the only time we ever had
> concerns over our dogs. Paddington was literally doing little bites in the
> air right behind the kid's butt until we got him away and into our room.
> We later found out that the boy was in some kind of detention facility,
> and that
> one of his patterns of behavior was abuse of animals.
> Do I trust my boy? Absolutely. But I won't put him in situations where his
> probably all-too-reliable assessment of the situation might get him into
> trouble!
> Ann W

There is actually a scientific reason why dogs can sense things that 
people can not.  Everly living thing has a magnetic field, aka and aura. 
An aura will change its intesnisity and strength according to the mood, 
mental status, and health of an animal.  When a person or animal has 
"predatory" intentions, the magnatic field changes.  Also the phermones 
released from the body change as well.  
	Dogs, who can naturally "see" things we cannot (i.e. magnetic 
fields) and smell things we cannot, (i.e the phermones released from a 
human or animal body) are able to alert us "blind and noseless" humans 
of impending danger.. 
 


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Adrienne Wilder  www.stc.net/~draggon/index.htm (pet portraits)
Murrayville GA

"Oh, to be loved by a dog!"

Home of:
The golden gang,
Patou and the evil sister geese.
and many stray cats.