Getting on a dog’s good side might seem as easy as
having a pocket full of treats and knowing the trick to a good belly rub, but
our four-legged friends aren’t always easy to please. They’re quick to judge a
person’s character, and there are some people they simply don’t like.
It could be a specific person in the dog’s family, a
friend of their owner’s, or a random person they meet on the street - but dogs
know a foe when they see one. They might growl if the person comes close or
simply turn tail and disappear. It seems random, but it isn’t as mysterious as
you think. Here are a few reasons why your dog doesn’t like certain people.
#1 - Tone of Voice
Dogs might not be fluent in your language, but they’re
experts at picking up tone of voice. A scientific study published in 2016 found
that dogs’ brains react based on the tone of voice of the person talking to
them.
In the study, the reward centers in the dogs’ brains
became activated when the person used a high-pitched, happy voice. The dogs
were glad to greet the happy-sounding person, but they reacted negatively or
ignored people who spoke with deep or angry-sounding voices.
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