Signs of Dogs Recognizing Voice over The Phone
Even though puppies are born deaf and don’t develop hearing until about the fourth week of life, they have a hearing range about twice that of humans. We have a hearing frequency range of 20 to 20,000 Hz. This is the range of a younger person who has yet to lose any of their hearing range. As we age (along with other factors like listening to loud music, going shooting without ear protection, etc.), that range decreases. Humans can’t hear anything lower than 20 Hz or higher than 20,000 Hz. The actual frequency a single person can hear is unique.
Dogs, on the other hand, have a hearing frequency range of about 40 to 40,000 Hz. Forty thousand Hz consists of higher pitches. Dogs also have 18 ear muscles that allow their ears to maneuver in a way that helps locate the source of a sound. Our canine pals can also hear up to about 4 times the distance that we can as people. What we can hear at 20 feet away, they can hear at 80 feet away.
If a dog’s hearing hasn’t started fading with old age, it is very possible that your doggo will recognize your voice on the other end of a phone. Signs that your best furry buddy recognizes your voice over the phone can vary depending on the pitches that you use and the things you say. Upon hearing your voice, they will most likely become alert. They hear you, but know that you are missing; therefore, they aren’t sure where it is coming from. They may start whining, sniffing, and pacing as well because they cannot seem to locate you through smelling or seeing, yet they can hear your voice, so they are anxious and confused.
Your doggie may give you the following signs if they recognize your voice over the phone:
Other signs that your dog may show when recognizing your voice over the phone may include:
History of Dogs Recognizing Voice Over the Phone
Canines’ hearing abilities date back to their evolution from grey wolves, 20,000 years ago. As wild ‘dogs’, wolves depended on their senses for survival. Hearing is one of the sharpest senses a dog has following closely behind their number one sense, smell. Dogs’ ears have evolved to contain extra muscles, allowing them to move in all directions and in turn, pinpoint the exact location a sound is resonating from. This ensured that they stayed away from predators.
As mentioned above, puppies develop this sense early on in life. The frequency of a cell phone falls within a dog’s hearing range at 6,000 to 20,000 Hz. Because a dog links all of its senses together to draw conclusions, hearing your voice over the phone can be very confusing. The dog cannot see or smell you; therefore, he recognizes the voice, yet may not know that it is you because he can’t tie in his other senses. This is why a dog will be completely excited, cock its head, or even disregard the call altogether.
For example, one owner tells her story of how her sister bought a dog and moved out of the house about a year later. Every time her sister calls home, they put the phone on speaker and the dog jumps around and wags its tail with excitement. Another owner, on the other hand, never had any luck getting his dog to alert to his voice when on the phone.
What do dogs hear when we talk?
Dogs hear nearly twice as many frequencies as humans. … Your dog might not understand everything you say, but he listens and pays attention similar to the way humans do. The researchers discovered that dogs — like humans — respond not only to the words we say to them, but also to the emotional tone of our voices.
Your dog, like generations of dogs before her, has developed the ability to recognize and respond to changes in your facial expressions. So, the simple answer to a complicated, much researched question is, YES! Dogs do recognize our facial expressions which makes them wonderful family members.
Pretend you’re on the phone and say your dogs favorite words
our smartphones could be causing depression in our dogs. When we pay more attention to our phones than to our dogs, we damage our emotional bond with them and make our dogs feel lonely and isolated. “We’re a nation obsessed by our mobile phones,” veterinary surgeon and founder of VetUK, Iain Booth, told Metro.co.uk.