Originally Posted by
Ghost Ryder
Its not the eye contact that enforces the dominance its standing your ground. If you look at submissive dogs, they avoid any eye contact, & lay on their backs to submit.
Eye contact is almost always viewed as a threat in any animal,mammal,etc.
Horses are a bad example, they are very skittish in nature, & usally counter attack in self defence.
Sometimes dogs will initiate an attack, or attack in self defence
No, horses are a good example, because they are the main species identified with the negative behavior in response to eye contact, and that was the subject of the comment I was responding to. You are not going to profit from looking away from a dog!