Chemicals: How They Effect Our Relationships With Animals

Posted by jennifer on March 22, 2010 in Dog & Wolf News / Issues.

All animals first and foremost relationship is with their Mother. If you ask a human behavior expert, it may be a case for why so many humans have lasting feelings and attachments with the child bearer going all the way back to before a year old. This relationship, so connected and primal starts in the Mother's womb. From conception to birth, an experience like no other takes place- that of the creation of new life.
With this process comes changes in hormones and pheremones for a female human being. Even the Father's testosterone levels decrease as they become more of a reproductive family unit. So how is it that human chemicals can effect animals? Well, I believe they do in a variety of ways based on my own observations over the years. Not to be graphic but let's take the example of an intact male dog with a single, female owner during her monthly cycle. At this time, the dog may become more protective and aggressive episodes can rise at this time. He may place himself in between his owner and her new date for a kiss and barking could increase.
Now let's take the case of ten random individuals brought into a captive wolf enclosure. Here we have a situation where the wolves may not go up to the men but prefer going up to the females first. Wolves are generally shy and timid. Women are nurturing and estrogen is flowing. If a high testosterone man walks in, the wolves can sense that and back away. Sometimes the male wolves will even become territorial over the female humans and act aggressively towards the men. Have you ever heard the saying " A girl is a person who screams at the mouse but smiles at the wolf"? Well, now you know why. LOL In fact, I have found more and more females working with dangerous animals and actually, they do quite well because they are coming from a feeling sense and not a domineering sense. This is working with the animal and not against them.
High testosterone works well for highly driven dogs. If you need a protection dog that can bite, jump through a window or go get the bad guy, the more testosterone that can flow down into the leash to your dog, the better. Shy animals I have found do best with female components such as estrogen.
I have recently sought the help of finding a scientist who can study this. I also want to make note of artificial chemicals in the human body as well as flower essences, etc. It is an interesting thing about mixing together highly potent scents with animals. Last time I checked, animals never do this. They actually prefer things that are natural- for instance, a wolf might like you better without perfume and body lotion and like you even more if you haven't showered in a week and didn't wear deodorant.
Other chemicals such as smoking, drugs and drinking effect your relationship with wildlife as well as your pets. I love water- so do my dogs. I like to keep things consistent- if animals don't do it, I won't either with the exception of a cup of coffee in the morning. If you cloud your thoughts, you cloud and put a barrier up for the animal. Non-humans trust what is pure.
As we are changing, so are our domestic and wild animals. It is high time we give respect to them as much as they give respect to us and learn how our humanistic ways effect them.

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