Friends And Other Mythical Creatures

justonemoreperson wrote:We humanise the behaviours by giving them human feelings, but any good dog book will describe what those behaviours actually mean.

I've seen dogs experience happiness, sadness, anger, fear, anxiety and excitement. These are not emotions that were given to them by humans. All animals can experience them, even wild animals. Hell, even my bird experiences them and I sure as shlt didn't train her to feel them.

so who's to say how strong the bond is from either perspective.

Any professional who understands dog psychology.

I had a dog once that I gave away. She kept running away from them and coming back to me and she had to go quite a distance and cross at least one busy road to do it. How she managed that without getting herself killed is beyond me. As far as I know the people who took her treated her well. she had warm bedding and regular meals, so why go to so much effort to come back to me?

I assume it's because she felt a bond with me (I didn't personally feel it, but I did like that dog). Maybe you have a better explanation since you seem to think you know dogs better than I do.

justonemoreperson wrote:I'll be an arse this time and again take exception to your use of the word 'evolved'; that's not what evolution is or how it works. That said, by keeping them as puppies mentally, they have to be parasitic.

You only have to look at some deprived countries to see how domesticated dogs have been left to roam the streets and they return to their natural instinctive behaviour.

The evolution of this post progressed in a positive direction.

Reaper wrote:
I've seen dogs experience happiness, sadness, anger, fear, anxiety and excitement. These are not emotions that were given to them by humans. All animals can experience them, even wild animals. Hell, even my bird experiences them and I sure as shlt didn't train her to feel them.

Ok, last try:

Dogs do experience simplistic emotions; i never said they didn't. What some people do is imply more than the base emotion. "My dog loves me just like a child," "Oh look, he's upset because I washed his blanket," "He's cross with me because I forgot his biscuits" - these base emotions are given meaning beyond the intent.

I had a dog once that I gave away. She kept running away from them and coming back to me and she had to go quite a distance and cross at least one busy road to do it. How she managed that without getting herself killed is beyond me. As far as I know the people who took her treated her well. she had warm bedding and regular meals, so why go to so much effort to come back to me?

I assume it's because she felt a bond with me (I didn't personally feel it, but I did like that dog). Maybe you have a better explanation since you seem to think you know dogs better than I do.

Imprinting and conditioning to an area. There's a whole heap of reasons why this would happen to any dog from any pack. It doesn't change that you're the "pack" and it's behaviour is instinctive.

That dog, if it found you dead on the floor, would still eat your face and carry on as normal.

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Siegfried wrote:
The evolution of this post progressed in a positive direction.

I've enjoyed it. So has my dog; it understands every word I say to it.

Yes, it seems the thread evolved some alluring characteristics to attract us unknowing humans. Evolution truly is fascinating.

Laughing out loud.

When I see someone talking to a dog like its a person I say to them "what would you do if it actually spoke back? You'd sh*t yourself that's what"

My dog fvcks missionary style, it wants to connect more to its partner while at the same time escaping the social expectation that dogs only fvck "doggy style."

Siegfried wrote:Yes, it seems the thread evolved some alluring characteristics to attract us unknowing humans. Evolution truly is fascinating.

You're being an arse again.

Manners73 wrote:
When I see someone talking to a dog like its a person I say to them "what would you do if it actually spoke back? You'd sh*t yourself that's what"

Seth MacFarlane plays this really well in the character 'Brian' from family guy. A would-be sophisticated human-like dog who still scoots his arse on the carpet and barks at the mailman.

That's how you get girls, blame E vO lUtIonnn.

Siegfried wrote:My dog fvcks missionary style, it wants to connect more to its partner while at the same time escaping the social expectation that dogs only fvck "doggy style."

You devil. You've put pictures in my already corrupted mind.

You've had more diabolical thoughts than two dogs fvcking, let's be real here.