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[ouija ouija]

Mattshark, on 10 May 2012 - 09:20 PM, said:

Even so, human and carnivore brains are extremely different, I find this idea extremely unlikely.

Body language is extremely important in many animals, that is what the animals are picking up upon.

The body language thing doesn't apply when lungeing a horse because you keep very still, well, apart from slowly turning so that you are always facing the horse.
Maybe it's not the brain that is doing the sending and receiving ........ maybe it's the spirit that is common to all life forms?

[Mattshark]

ouija ouija, on 10 May 2012 - 09:26 PM, said:

The body language thing doesn't apply when lungeing a horse because you keep very still, well, apart from slowly turning so that you are always facing the horse.
Maybe it's not the brain that is doing the sending and receiving ........ maybe it's the spirit that is common to all life forms?

You will still be making signals, even subconsciously.

I think that is highly unlikely isn't it.

[ouija ouija]

Mattshark, on 10 May 2012 - 09:32 PM, said:

You will still be making signals, even subconsciously.

I think that is highly unlikely isn't it.

Ah! We've arrived at the agree-to-differ point!

[Beany]

Mattshark, on 10 May 2012 - 11:04 AM, said:

Body language, sense of smell etc, nothing abnormal about any of this.

Except he knew, even though I hadn't gotten out the shampoo or towel, taken the mat out of the bathtub, etc. I originally thought he was picking up on body language so eliminated any sort of preparations or behaviors that would have been a visual cue for him, as he was a bear to drag out of a small space. His center of gravity magically dropped, he flattened himself to the floor, he REALLY hated baths. The real question is, how to dogs turn into boneless, spineless animals that can be neither drug nor pushed? Gandhi would have loved the passive resistance.