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Border Collie Saves Chihuahua from Being Run over by Car

C'mon jump up

StukaFox says...

Good dog, Cujo! Also, you know that mutt drops a log the size of a baguette at least twice a day and it practically takes a snow shovel to fling it into the neighbor's yard.

I use to have a tragically retarded Cocker Spaniel (and, to note, there is no other variety of that breed) and it was like the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, only with dogshit. At least three times a day, this golden-furred, floppy ear'd mongrel would scarf down a can of Alpo, a cup of kibble and whatever food was left lying on the table -- the same table the cat always got smacked for climbing on, but the dog ... ohhh, no! It's CUTE when the dog does it! -- then make a beeline to the back lawn where it'd crap Mt. Everest. I'd have to trudge out the the back yard, shovel in hand, while the guy next door shot me the stink-eye because he was tired of fishing dog turds out of his swimming pool every day during the summer. This task is odious enough, but it's a thousand times worse when you're stoned and it's a million degrees out and you'd much rather be floating on your waterbed listening to Dark Side of the Moon in headphones while blissful AC-cooled air wafts over your twice-weekly washed body and not fighting your way through a black fog of Horseflies to reach a 1:1 scale model of Mt. Doom made entirely of a too-quickly digested overpriced slurry of meat scraps and offal that the canners couldn't fob off on Mexico.

It might not have been as bad as all that, but in my hazy recollection, it was pretty darned close.

I'm not sure why I told you all this, to be perfectly honest, but I did. So there.

Dog and Human play a serious game

Television Code PSA '67 National Association of Broadcasters

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Little Girl 'Rescued' by Dog

THE SUMMONING

Extreme Dog Shaming

Dog vs Toy

If you sneeze, this cute Corgi will fetch a tissue

Dog Dives For Lobster

How an Aussie postman deals with dogs

Should drug-sniffing dogs be discredited

newtboy says...

We need to support those scientists who are trying to create a synthetic dog nose. That way there's no training, there's a device that has a read out of molecules it actually detected (when properly used and maintained).
Dogs want to please the master, and can easily tell the master is pleased when they 'alert', giving total incentive for them to false 'alert' so dad is happy (and dad gets happy and dog gets reward BEFORE the alert is verified, reinforcing the bad 'alerts' along with the good).
Dogs' 'alerts' should NEVER be allowed in court, they're far worse than lie detectors.

The Many Faces of Guilty Dogs

Payback says...

They don't make a connection between cause, effect, and responsibility. I wish I could find the video, but I've seen one where an owner is angry his dog keeps spreading the garbage around in his kitchen, and he "knows when it's happened" because the dog looks "guilty" when the owner gets home.

The video was of the owner being told to put the dog in his bedroom, go into the kitchen, throw the garbage around, then go open the bedroom door and leave the house. He comes back after 10 minutes, and the dog greets him "guiltily".

The dog had been "trained" that garbage on the floor of the kitchen meant he was going to get punished. Even though they had video showing the dog merely walked into the kitchen and sniffed a couple items, he still looked "guilty" because the garbage was there.

I guess what I'm saying is a dog doesn't think "I shouldn't do this, because it will create a situation that I'll get in shit for." unless you catch them doing it. Once it's done, and nothing has happened immediately, the dog just ends up confused when you punish them for it.

Also, they don't know conversational English. "WHO ATE THE SHOE?" is meaningless to the dog at 0:50. He just knows your angry and he's being submissive (which is a good dog trait btw).

A10anis said:

Your comment is not strictly true.
It has been discovered that many animals -especially primates - share many of our emotions. Love, hate, empathy, memory, trust/distrust, fear etc. I do agree that the word "guilt" is a misnomer. However, the dog does, certainly, remember the act. It certainly knows it was wrong. And, as such, will fear the consequences. They do not just live in the "now."
I was brought up with farm dogs, had 2 German Shepherds, and currently have a Tamaskan (mighty Wolf), whose intelligence is scary sometimes. I would agree that many people treat their pets as humans and, as such, anthropormorphise too much. But there is certainly no doubt that, in particular, dogs are far more cognisant than many give them credit for.



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