You don't even enter the house and your dog already hears you've arrived. You barely wake up, get up, put your slippers on and there it is, at your bedroom door. These, like many other everyday situations, are common for those who live with these very special animals on a daily basis.
Thanks to this ability, scenes like their heads suddenly tilting as if they were standing awake become commonplace. After all, they are great prophets of what will come out there, listening to sounds that seem invisible to us. And why invisible? Because they reach a frequency between 10 and 40.000 Hz, inaccessible to humans, trapped between 16 and 20.000 Hz.
So, if you are one of those who always want to understand what these animals are discovering in the face of the sounds they catch, this new information will probably bring you a better understanding of everyday events. It's not ghosts or things that didn't happen. On the contrary. They are living noises that form over great distances and are captured through their auditory hypersensitivity.
It's as if lightning is an earthquake to them and a collision of cars far away is a collision of trains. What is small for us may be too big for them. Can you now understand the violence that fireworks and the noise of thunder mean for dogs?
Let the reflection remain and that we can understand that the lick on the face we receive is not for nothing.
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