{"id":23774,"date":"2022-03-25T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-dogs-wag-their-tails-on-purpose\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:12:15","slug":"do-dogs-wag-their-tails-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-dogs-wag-their-tails-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Do dogs wag their tails on purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-dogs-wag-their-tails-on-purpose\/#Do_dogs_wag_their_tails_on_purpose\" title=\"Do dogs wag their tails on purpose?\">Do dogs wag their tails on purpose?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-dogs-wag-their-tails-on-purpose\/#Is_it_true_that_when_dogs_wag_their_tail_they_are_happy\" title=\"Is it true that when dogs wag their tail they are happy?\">Is it true that when dogs wag their tail they are happy?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-dogs-wag-their-tails-on-purpose\/#Do_dogs_intentionally_wag_their_tails\" title=\"Do dogs intentionally wag their tails?\">Do dogs intentionally wag their tails?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-dogs-wag-their-tails-on-purpose\/#Do_dogs_wag_their_tails_when_no_one_is_around\" title=\"Do dogs wag their tails when no one is around?\">Do dogs wag their tails when no one is around?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_dogs_wag_their_tails_on_purpose\"><\/span>Do dogs wag their tails on purpose?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Dog&#8217;s tails seem to wag on their own, but the muscles that control it don&#8217;t. Just like the rest of her body, she can control her tail muscles by thinking in order to manipulate movement. She can wag, lower or raise her tail at will, and she can stop it mid-wag, too.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_it_true_that_when_dogs_wag_their_tail_they_are_happy\"><\/span>Is it true that when dogs wag their tail they are happy?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Studies show that dogs wag their tails to the right when they are happy or confident and to the left when they are frightened. Interestingly, there is a scientific reason for this. The left side of the brain controls movement on the right side of the body and vice versa.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_dogs_intentionally_wag_their_tails\"><\/span>Do dogs intentionally wag their tails?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Dog&#8217;s tails seem to wag on their own, but the muscles that control it don&#8217;t. Just like the rest of her body, she can control her tail muscles by thinking in order to manipulate movement. She can wag, lower or raise her tail at will, and she can stop it mid-wag, too.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_dogs_wag_their_tails_when_no_one_is_around\"><\/span>Do dogs wag their tails when no one is around?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Dogs don&#8217;t wag their tails when they are alone. Most puppies don&#8217;t begin wagging their tails until they are about 6 weeks old. Dogs use their tails for swimming and to keep their balance while running. A dog&#8217;s tail wags faster to the right when they see someone they know  but more slowly when they see a stranger.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents Do dogs wag their tails on purpose?Is it true that when dogs wag their tail they are happy?Do dogs intentionally wag their tails?Do dogs wag their tails when no one is around? Do dogs wag their tails on purpose? Dog&#8217;s tails seem to wag on their own, but the muscles that control&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}