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301aIgnoring is common social behaviour. Avoiding dogs, other animals or humans is a way to prevent conflict, that is to avoid fight.

Not one living creature – neither in wilderness nor in human settlements – would approach just about anyone they see. Some dogs simply do not want humans to get near them. It will happen that one dog would want to have contact, others would not. One of these situations might be when dominant dog approaches another dog, which does not accept its dominance, it does not submit but wants to avoid the conflict. It will show its indifference or reconcilable signals by doing one of the following:

1. Turning the head the other way. Dominant dogs that listen to their owners can very often react to their command like this way: by keeping the dominant body posture it will show the other dog that it did not back away, but with lowered ears it will show submission to its leader.

2. Sniffing the ground will show its indifference.

3. Carefully gazing at the distance, absolutely indifferent towards other dog approaching.

If the "challenging" dog knows dog communication and does not have behavioural issues or genetic predispositions for attacking, but has balanced mind, it will stop the threatening, it will change its tense posture with more relaxed one and then will distance itself or sniff around with no grater tension.