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How does a pet quietly train its owner? 5 methods for managing a person Do you think you are the one training your pet? What if I told you that he actually trains you too and manipulates you as he wants! Moreover, the animals do this so subtly that the owner sometimes doesn’t even realize it. To do this, the watchdogs and murziks have as many as five types of weapons, which we will now talk about. So, the first weapon of furry manipulators is reading posture, movements and muscle tension. For animals, this is generally the basic basis, because they use body language to communicate with each other. Therefore, when interacting with a person, they first of all read our behavior, and secondly they look at how to use it for their own selfish or not so selfish purposes. If you are tense, it means you are ready for conflict. He retreated and gave in. Relaxed - safe. And then a simple but very effective mechanism comes into play: they begin to check what works for which person. The dog persistently stares or pokes its nose - you share your piece - in its system of understanding the world this looks like a victory. This means that you can manipulate further and get food. The cat begins to meow louder in the morning - the owner gets up and feeds it. This means that increasing the pressure, kicking harder and screaming even louder is beneficial. They do not make cunning plans, but quickly memorize the “action-reaction” connection and then begin to use it again and again. Therefore, at some point it seems that you are the owner and are engaged in education, but in reality it is the woolly one who trains you. The second and more subtle tool of manipulators is the perfect reading of human facial expressions. From early childhood, kittens and puppies learn to distinguish human emotions by a kind smile or frowning eyebrows. This is a basic skill, and so cool that animals can even identify emotions from photographs! In a series of experiments, dogs were shown different faces that were completely unfamiliar to them and saw who they would choose. And animals always gave preference to calm and kind people in the photographs, and tried to avoid evil ones. With age and experience, pets reach perfection and begin to distinguish even the smallest and fastest, literally in a split second, movements of the facial muscles. People wouldn't even pay attention to it! But for animals, any “poker face” of the owner is like an open book. This is how they manipulate us: imagine, a kitten overturned a flower pot. You seem to be angry, but look how funny he plays and tries to pretend that the flower itself attacked... And the kitten immediately saw that the corners of the owner’s lips twitched slightly upward in a smile, and the expression of the eyes softened. That's all! Then you can swear as much as you want, the animal has already understood that you need to make its face as cute as possible, and you will forgive it for any prank. The third weapon is eye move