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What does someone who's scared of dogs
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do? They freeze up, right? They look
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away, they try to make themselves
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smaller. For any human, that message is
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crystal clear: stay away from me. But in
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dog language, that's kind of the
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opposite. See, in their world, staring,
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standing tall, and making big movements
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can feel like a threat. So, when we get
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all still and avoid eye contact, a dog
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reads that as, "Oh, cool. This person
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isn't a threat at all." It's basically
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And this quote really just nails it.
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It's this playful twist of psychology
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where the very person who wants to be
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left alone accidentally becomes the most
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approachable one in the room. It's just
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a classic hilarious case of getting our
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wires crossed between species.
