Head Tilt

Anyone who has had or has a German Shepherd family member is familiar with their head tilt. It will warm your heart and render a human totally helpless. I am just putting the finishing touches on a blog for Mother Earth News about bears. (This is the pic that we saw on Petfinders of our Bozwell!)

The head tilt tells the recipient that you have your fur family members total attention and that they are tuned into you and what you want. Many of the human-black bear encounters turn out unfavorable due to the human over reacting and not observing what the bear is telling you. The head tilt and calm talk sends the message to the bear that you mean it no harm. Just saying......