Sixth sense cues in dogs

Dogs have a sixth sense in dedicating human behavior. Just like we pick up "vibes" on certain people around us, dogs are the same way, however, their intuition is stronger than humans as they rely on this, like other animals, for survival.

Freedom is generally a friendly dog, nature of the beast with labs and although I haven't seen him display aggressive behavior toward another human, he will get semi protective when he senses someone sketchy walking in our direction. I usually take cues from Freedom and immediately either change my path or walk on the other side of the street. I do this especially since I have the tendency to walk past 10:00 pm as I like to be alone with my IPOD and unwind rather than socializing with neighbors and or get held up while their dogs introduce themselves to Freedom, interrupting the much needed daily cardio workout.

On the same note, dogs and cats pick up on our cues. If we're sad, find someone to be creepy, happy and or neutral, they change their behavior around us. This is done as we release certain chemicals into the air. Dogs and cats sniff our chemical releases to detect the mood were in.

The reason for this besides genetics according to an on-line article written by Dan Vergano, from USA today, is that in addition to basic survival genetics dogs and cats have evolved with humans and have naturally become in synch.