Posted on 07/03/2012 10:23:10 AM PDT by LouAvul
Being a dog owner, especially big dogs requires being able to read body language.
Those dogs are playing.
Joe:
I deliberately did NOT ping you to this thread when I was the first to see it go up because I do not feel that it gives proper honor to those wonderful canines.
:-)
They are playing. Our dogs do the same weird thing... show each other their teeth. Cripplecreek has a picture of his dogs playing that appears brutal (like the dogs are ready to do a Michael Vick dog attack). They are still best buddies (well, best buddies after Cripplecreek, of course)
Two weeks ago I went to the Texas hill country to visit friends and took my four lb. Yorkie, Prissy, with me as my friends wanted to see her.
The friends have two very large Australian Shepherds and we were concerned they might not like Prissy.
Well, they were afraid of her. She wasn’t barking or acting nuts as she is a calm dog - she just wanted to be where they were and they walked away from her. We were there two days and they continued to walk around her the whole time.
One of my favorites.
I know, but I ping you so often to canine threads that I thought it would be overkill to ping you for that ugly picture with the impertinent caption! So, I restrained myself. I can see that it generated a whole thread of impertinent pix. LOL.
roflmao! :)
Gary Larson and Charles Schultz are two of the best cartoonists ever!
Meanwhile, Djinn is about to "tear into Odhinn" after he ate her face.
[or not]
LOL
Paradoxically, they were displaying [very polite and restrained] alpha behavior by disregarding her existence.
For whatever reason, they simply didn’t like her and chose to ignore her.
Poor Prissy.
She knew what they were “saying” yet she continued to try and ‘join their pack’.
Happily, apparently no one tried to ‘force her on them’ since their reaction could’ve been much less ‘polite’.
“Happily, apparently no one tried to ‘force her on them’ since their reaction could’ve been much less ‘polite’.”
We knew to leave it up to the dogs unless it got out of hand. The Shepherds are really big and Prissy was a little mop on the floor. Both of the owners of the big dogs held Prissy on their laps and had fun with her. Their dogs probably felt like their owners were traitors to love on Prissy.
Prissy loves everyone. She is my guard dog - barks and runs to my chair if she sees or hears anything outside.
Right now she’s asleep on my recliner with me. She is a precious companion.
I've seen people try to -force- dogs into accepting each other and it never turns out well.
If you leave them be, they'll work it out on their own, 99% of the time.
If Prissy were there with them constantly, eventually they'd give her a place in the pack.
They must be very good dogs to be so patient and polite.
:)
Back in my one-woman rescue days, I'd bring home ‘strange dogs’ all the time and just plop them down and watch them for a bit and then leave them to establish their natural hierarchy.
Even with several male Dobes in the house, I never had so much as a lifted lip from any of them.
Agreed. Unfortunately, such common sense is increasingly uncommon.
I remember watching (part of, I turned it off) a special on a preserve for wolves, in the segment I saw, one of the female wolves further down pack hierarchy had a litter of cubs.
The pack’s alpha female, naturally, went to inspect the cubs.
As you probably predicted, this resulted in hysterical consternation from the person running the preserve (”We must rescue the cubs before she harms/kills them!”)
This meant that she needed to “rescue” the cubs to be “hand raised” so that she would “save their lives”.
Oh noes! We can’t let the cubs learn natural pack hierarchy!
Clearly, these pictures prove that after Odhinn ate Djinn’s face, she became a “zombie dog” and thereafter, wanted his brain.
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