I get ticklish when someone keeps poking me all over, like my stomach, armpits, shoulders, thighs, etc. I also get ticklish under my armpits on the upper inner part of my thigh, etc. Well how come my dog does not get ticklish when poke her or tickle her in those areas of her body. I've tried poking her and tickling her everywhere and she doesn't seem to really get ticklish. Or is it the fact that dog's can't really express a laugh or show of humor really? The thing is my dog goesn't really react at all. She just kinda sits there. The only thing she really seems to like is getting petted on the stomach otherwise she doesn't show any reaction to anything else. So I am assuming animals don't get ticklish. If you walked up to a lion and tickled him under his armpits, he wouldn't crack up in laughter, I'm assuming.
2007-03-03 00:25:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Most animals are ticklish on their paw pads and in between the "toes". They do not have the capability to laugh, but they do smile! Any positive interaction with your animal is good.
2007-03-03 00:34:55 · answer #1 · answered by auntcookie84 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but if you went up and poked a lion under his armpits, you wouldn't crack up in laughter either...
Some animals are ticklish, some inherently, some learn it by being poked/scared/tensed up. I have frequently seen ticklish-ness in horses both genetic and learned. The genetic you have to work around, the learned you can desensitize them them. I'm not sure about cats or dogs. Dogs don't seem to be ticklish and with cats you don't always know if its ticklish or just "hey, I don't know or trust you well enough to touch me there" - although I have noticed some of my cats will let me gently touch the pads of their feet and some never get really used to it, maybe it's like tickling the bottom of some people's feet?
2007-03-03 01:49:49 · answer #2 · answered by holly_a_johnson 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, animals are ticklish. Horses change their epidermis even as flies land on them and walk round, dogs bounce in case you hit their ticklish spots. The groin and feet are ticklish spots. Your brother in guidelines dogs likes having her abdomen stroked for convenience and to make it clean she is subordinate, no longer because she is ticklish.
2016-12-05 04:36:28 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dog was ticklish IN his paws. Lift up her paw, then where she has the different "sections" of foot pad, poke your finger in between then and wiggle it around. My dog would pull his paw away and wiggle it a bit :P
2007-03-03 01:17:24 · answer #4 · answered by Domina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my dog is ticklish on her tummy and if try to tickle her she'll try to roll over but i dont think you would wanna walk up to lion either... im assuming : )
2007-03-03 00:29:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have noticed that my dogs gets real ticklish and also some horses do too...I am sure they all or most get tickelish but handle it differently than humans do....
2007-03-03 00:29:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i didnt thiink they were tickilish either until i tickled my dogs nose. also i tickled its paw pads and it was like shaking its legs. they cant lauph because they cant talk. but they can shake their legs as a sign of " stop" hah or they just run away
2007-03-03 00:29:13 · answer #7 · answered by OH Whuddup 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my horse has a ticklish spot which i use to wake him up or relax him. all animals have ticklish spots u just have to find them.
2007-03-03 08:17:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Sis' Dog Laughs ... But Then ...
Hes A Weird Dog ...
2007-03-03 00:29:50 · answer #9 · answered by dO yOu wanna piece Of me :-D[8]? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=11239994
That's a link to a paper published by someone who spent hours tickling rats... apparently they enjoy it, and squeak higher than we can hear, which the researchers called "rat laughter".
2007-03-03 01:36:29 · answer #10 · answered by theindigorat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋