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More importantly what happened to the OP today? Did he get a beating from the husband, savaged by the dogs? We need to know!
More importantly what happened to the OP today? Did he get a beating from the husband, savaged by the dogs? We need to know!
This is a good point - the threat was made.
The whole pack thing is utter bollocks too. Mainly taken from studies of captive wolves that, surprisingly, don’t act like a natural family unit.
This is true... wild dogs are highly social, yes there is generaly a chief male/female breeding pair, but they typically live in packs of extended families in the wild, with multiple breeding pairs, and taking it in turns to look after others cubs whilst others go hunting etc.
Yep, the whole domination/pack leader thing only exists in captivity where there isn’t a family unit. So using that as a model for an animal domesticated 15,000 years ago, that has been bred, cross bred and changed a lot in that time, isn’t a great approach. Made popular by idiots on the tele and misguided study of animals in captivity. Basically assumptions were made by looking at a prison system for wild animals. Chuck a bunch of unrelated wolves in to a captive environment and they vie for dominance. Just like in cell block H
I’d also suggest reading up on the utterly insane Russian fox experiment that showed how quickly a species can go from wild to unrecognisable domestic version in a very short timeframe if you breed the cutest looking ones
What makes it really fascinating is that wasnt what they bred for.
They bred for tameness only.
The looks and other changes came as a byproduct of that.
Totally off topic but I thought they used the traits to influence the breeding? So chose the ones with a friendlier disposition and they, in turn, tended to be the ones that looked friendlier. The end result being animals that look like a Disney Princesses sidekick. I need to read up on it again. Fascinating how it took very little time to end up with a tame version. Now times that by 15,000 years and tell me that the vast majority of dogs are anywhere near the wolves they originally descended from.
After reading that, I.reckon you probably ooze agression that the dogs react to.
Either that or you need to take the string of sausages off your cranks - It could reduce the urge of the local sabte toothed wolf pack.
Simply way to many dogs.
it can only be part of the govts contingency plan to avoid mass-starvation, should Putin nuke the Ukraine’s grain basket.
wok the dog?
a ringpiece like a blood orange
Or as they say round our way "an arse like a Labour Party rosette" 😀
Totally off topic but I thought they used the traits to influence the breeding?
Well yes, it's 'selective breeding.'. only allow the friendly ones to breed, or the ones with cute apperence etc. etc.
It doesn't take too many generations to do that.. the Russian fox breeding experiment, whilst a bit unethical, is actually a really good example of this.
fossy
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All quiet on the western front – I was 15 minutes later this morning, no dog walkers but many more people either cycling or walking to work on the path
Posted 9 hours ago on page two.