What are the four F's of dog behaviour?
Rubie Paucek
2025-07-02 15:58:43
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The 4 primary fear responses in dogs, also known as the 4 F’s, are Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fidget.
The Fight response is one of the most common, and misunderstood fear reactions in dogs.
The Flight response is another common fear response that you have most likely seen your dog or another dog perform.
The Freeze response is where a dog will remain completely still in the presence of a perceived threat with the hope that it will move past them without noticing them.
The Fidget response is a less commonly recognized fear response.
Understanding the 4 F’s of fear - fight, flight, freeze, and fidget - is crucial to addressing behavioral concerns and addressing our dog’s emotional well-being.
Dayton Raynor
2025-06-23 05:03:47
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When pets are stressed, just like us, they release noradrenaline, adrenaline and cortisol. The result is the famed fight-or-flight response. In reality, there are four responses you might see in pets, says Landsberg-fight, flight, fidget or freeze. Fight. This is active stress or active fear. Flight. Pets may try to flee the situation. Fidget. This is a conflict situation-the pet isn't sure how to react to the situation. Freeze. Pets may stay motionless while whatever is happening around them plays out, but what's going on inside is a different story.
Mozelle Padberg
2025-06-23 04:25:56
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In evolutionary psychology, people often speak of the four Fs which are said to be the four basic and most primal drives that animals are evolutionarily adapted to have, follow, and achieve: fighting, fleeing, feeding, fucking. Usually the profane word "fucking" is humorously implied but replaced with a politer synonym like "mating". The list of the four activities appears to have been first introduced in the late 1950s and early 1960s in articles by psychologist Karl H. Pribram, with the fourth entry in the list being known by terms such as "sex" or occasionally "fornicating". In the case of vertebrates, this list corresponds to the motivational behaviours that drive the activity in the hypothalamus, namely: fighting, fleeing, feeding and sexual functioning. Conventionally, the four Fs were described as adaptations which helped the organism to find food, avoid danger, defend its territory, et cetera.
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