Dogs have two brains

Unfortunately, one is in their butt.

When I tell Danny to "sit", you can see that his face understands the command but the other end hasn't got the message yet and it takes a few seconds before the "sit" occurs.
There is also the other end (no pun intended but it is funny!) of the situation where I will wake Danny up to go out and pee for the last time that night before I go to bed. His head is all in agreement with getting up and is eager to comply but that other brain at the back is still asleep and it takes a while before it "wakes up" enough to actually "get up". The front end is sitting up and awake and eager to please. The back end is not even moving yet.

The side effect of this is that you need to make sure you have the attention of the correct brain when you give a command. You may have heard the expression "talk to the hand"... well... if you don't see the dog's eyes looking at you, you are probably talking to the butt. The "butt brain" has a rather different outlook on the world and is understandably quite limited in capability.

This is probably the reason so many people have trouble training their dogs. They're talking to the wrong end.

When you add in the factor that we are not talking about the brain of a genius anyway, or even that of a smart kid, you really better make sure you are talking to the right end!

This physical condition may explain why small dogs are so nervous and yappy. Their two brains are too close together and they get into a feedback loop that results in pure static (which we all know is random noise) circulating between the two brains and this dives the unfortunate small animal to extremes of behavior. We've all seen the poor little creatures bouncing up and down and yapping their little heads off. That's it, a static feedback loop between the two brains.

Optimal size for a dog, such that this condition does not occur, is probably in the range of 18 inches or more from head to butt. Keep this in mind when you pick out a dog.

There may be some upper end issues also. If you have a really large dog, communications signals may deteriorate due to the long path. This may explain why some dogs chase their tails. The front brain thinks the tail belongs to another creature because it has lost communication with the butt brain.

This two brain thing may explain a lot.

I have a dog.

He has optimal brain separation.

Regards,
WebMouse