from LucyT
Posted on 09/16/2015 5:24:45 AM PDT by C19fan
Well, yes. Probably. But as dogs get fed regularly and given affection, they generally lose the skills needed to survive either in the wild or in horrible situations. Happens in lions too if “Born Free” is anything to go by.
Those are cats, not dogs.
:D
I must disagree.
I have had Ibizan Hounds and Portuguese Podengos for 25 years.
Neither breed needs me to survive.
I could turn them loose in the woods and they’d thrive.
Sometimes, I think they only come back inside for the fluffy comforters.
:)
The “Life After People” series addressed the dogs without human caretakers issue.
Except for dogs like Pugs and lap dogs, they’d all do just fine without us.
Chillingly so.
Not stupid, domesticated.
And I disagree with you. Rescue dogs, given enough food and comfort, will drop their instinctive habits of survival. My God, even the birds at my backyard feeder have become welfare recipients. How bewildered they all look when it’s empty.
:D
The woman on the other side of the ridge regularly fed the birds.
One day, she dropped dead.
A few days later, all the birds, en masse, showed up in *my* yard.
No idea why they picked me [besides the sucker sign on my back] but I've been feeding them ever since.
They're just pitiful, especially in the winter.
And I've had “welfare possums” dump their litters in my smokehouse, for me to raise.
But my ‘primitive breeds’ can easily survive.
Try and catch the “Life After People” series.
You'll enjoy it.
They’ve all now woken up, been out and fed.
While he was eating, I sprawled myself out and can actually now feel my legs again.
;D
I’ll look for it.
have humans made WELFARE recipients LAZY and STUPID for several generations...???
Aren’t they great?!
YouTube has it
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Life+After+People+Season+1&FORM=RESTAB
History Channel stopped streaming full episodes when it went to DVD.
Yeah, they sure are.
:)
Ooh, I don’t know about dogs having been made stupid.
They come from the womb, equipped to do the things they need to do, unlike humans.
For example, we just got a chihuahua puppy 3 weeks ago, and it was 6 weeks old. After about a week, it was doing things that human babies can’t do. It eats and drinks on its own (after the food and water are served). It waits to go outside to do its #1 and #2. It runs and plays without supervision. It had a hard time learning how to climb stairs, but, just before it turned 2 months old, it had figured it out on its own. I observed how he was frustrated about not being able to climb even the first step. Then, the puppy took 4 steps back, and with a running start, it went up the stairs with no problem at all. Nobody taught him how to step back and take that running start. We bought him a little kennel 3 days and put a kennel-sized pillow inside, and the puppy figured out that, that was his bed, and he’s been sleeping there ever since. He wants to be held all the time, but, when we tell him “kennel” he knows what we mean and immediately goes to it.
So, what human baby 2 years old can do all of that on his/her own? Heck, even 3-year old kids have a hard time with some of those things that a puppy comes naturally equipped to do.
Odin? Could he be a Great Dane? My Dane’s named Canute, after the only Danish kind of England. It just seems Danes need noble names, even though thy tend to be silly love muffins and couch potatoes. BTW Canute owns what used to be “my” couch.
My current dog herd will hide under the bed if they think a car ride is coming up. The only time they get in the car is to go to the vet or occasionally the boarding kennel.
Basically, they are criticizing dogs for their conditioned response. How many dog owners reward their pets when they misbehave by tearing into things, or bypassing any safeguards the human set in place?
Because dogs are conditioned that following the rules gets them affection and food, the researchers assert the dogs are less intelligent.
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