[nagdu] The Canine Sigh

[Julie McGinnity]

I don't know much about the sigh.  My dog Brie doesn't sigh too much.
It's the big doggy groan that I wonder aout sometimes.  I am a college
student, and it livens things up in a lecture or during a test when
suddenly you hear this big doggy groan that lasts at least 10 seconds.
 It's like she has the weight of the world on her shoulders.
Honestly, I think it just means she's board.  She also sighs and
groans in church, which makes the people around me giggle.  I'm sure
she isn't the only dog who does this.  I wish I could interpret it.

Julie and Brie

On 6/20/10, Cathryn Bonnette <cathrynisfinally at verizon.net> wrote:
> You never know-
>
> All 3 of my shepherds have let out audible sighs, usually when whatever
> group I'm in starts talking about money! /lol/
> They also seem to pick silent moments with a potential audience to let out
> long complicated comments- on whatever subject- since "Dog" is not my first
> language, or second or third, for that matter,  I couldn't translate!
>
> Cathryn (& Abby)
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> Of Gail
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> Subject: Re: [nagdu] The Canine Sigh
>
> Heh, usually it is a sign of content. But I think it really depends a lot on
> the breed and the individual dog. My first SD, Tagg, was a rough collie, and
> while collies as a breed are 'talkative', I swear he has a full verbal
> language of his own! And he always timed his most dramatic for the most
> appropriate times. <grin>
>
> Talking of sighs, the funniest times with him were both in church. Once was
> in the confessional...I would go in, lean my cane on the kneeler to turn on
> the light outside, with my SD stashed behind me on the floor. This one time,
> after I was using my last SD, Anja, I was training Tagg to work for my son,
> and so was taking him with me to church instead. This was the first time he
> had ever been in the confessional, and was bored with it, and let me know
> with a long sigh as he flopped down. The priest broke into stifled snickers,
> and said, 'I hope he knows that anything he hears in here, stays in here?' I
> had a horrible time, keeping from laughing out loud!
>
> The second time, again, a training run for Tagg, we were at Mass, and Tagg
> was lying at my feet, and wanted to move around. With his bulk,(his
> considerably bigger than Anja) it was hard to stand him to turn around in
> front of my legs in the pew, so I just moved myself over and told him to
> stay. Again, a big sigh, as he looked around, and plonked his head on the
> kneeler to go back to sleep. But he had done it at a moment of dead silence,
> after the priest had made a dramatic statement during the sermon.....people
> were dying all around, trying not to laugh. The priest, a rather stuffy one,
> was *not* amused. They barely tolerate my SDs as it is. Only the pastor's
> reluctant agreement allows me to have mine there.
>
> Gail
>
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Elizabeth Rene
> Date: 6/18/2010 7:33:26 PM
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nagdu] The Canine Sigh
>
> Tell me, anyone, does the canine sigh mean the same thing as a human sigh?
>
> My Alvin sighs very expressively, just like my first dog, Ingram, and though
>
> it's comical, it does evoke in me the same emotional response that a heavy
> Human sigh might do.
>
> LOL.
>
> Elizabeth
>
>
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-- 
Julie McG
 Lindbergh High School class of 2009, participating member in Opera
Theater's Artist in Training Program, and proud graduate of Guiding
Eyes for the Blind

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal
life."
John 3:16