This is the puppy training podcast episode 198, dogs and loving affection.

This podcast is designed to help you on your journey of becoming best friends through love and learning as you train your own dog from home.

And I'm here to help you every step of the way.

This is the puppy training podcast and I'm your host, Amy Jensen.

Hello everybody. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Today we are talking about love.

We're talking about affection and we're talking about dogs and why they're so good at it

and what we as humans can learn from them.

I think they teach us lots of lessons, good ones.

So I'm glad you're here.

Let's jump right into it.

We know dogs are highly empathetic animals.

They can sense our emotions.

So they see our smiling face and they can interpret what that means.

They see our grumpy faces.

They can also interpret what that means.

So they can feel our sadness, our stress, maybe joy, or they can often respond with comforting

behavior. So unlike people who might withhold affection due to pride, anger, frustration,

I find that dogs are largely free from such emotional complexities. They don't seem to hold grudges

and they seem to forgive and forget easily, which makes their love appear limitless and a little more

pure. That said, it seems trust is important in order for them to show affection. So it is

really necessary that they trust the person and then the affection comes. Now, all dogs are unique individuals

and some may show more affection than others. So if you're listening today and you're like,

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