Animal Body Language

Question 1

what percentage of dogs and cats find the vet stressful?

Answer 1

75%

Question 2

fear

Answer 2

unpleasant feeling triggered by the perception of danger real or imagined

Question 3

what does fear create?

Answer 3

a vivid sense of memory of the environment, people, and inanimate objects involved

Question 4

stressor

Answer 4

any experience, environment, inanimate or living object which disrupts the body’s normal state of functioning

Question 5

stress response

Answer 5

when body tries to return to a normal state of functioning

Question 6

anxiety

Answer 6

anticipation of a threat

Question 7

empirical descriptions

Answer 7

motor patterns

Question 8

description of intention

Answer 8

functional description

Question 9

TEEMP

Answer 9

tail eyes ears mouth posture

Question 10

cat pupil descriptions

Answer 10

more narrow: nervous
more round: neutral/playful
narrow to round rapidly: overstimulated, going to get aggressive

Question 11

dominant dog eyes

Answer 11

wide eyes, staring

Question 12

submissive dog eyes

Answer 12

eyes smaller and more elongate, extreme passivity/submissive behavior, dog may close eyes

Question 13

self-confident/dominant lips

Answer 13

lips drawn forward and curled

Question 14

inferiority/submissive lips

Answer 14

lips drawn backward

Question 15

what are the behavior changes seen in an animal as FAS increases?

Answer 15

hypervigilance, lip licking, yawning, panting, urination/defecation, not eating/eating more aggressively

Question 16

what are the three fear responses?

Answer 16

fight flight freeze