Gone to the Dogs

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Soon, Pleasant Backyard Weather!

 

[Marie2020]

No fighting in the car

 

[heirloomgal]

A friend's dog had a litter of puppies. Cutest little fluffers, mom is 1/2 Anatolian and 1/2 Kangal. 1st puppy got adopted out; 2 days later the adopter guy (who is a next door neighbor) asked if she could puppysit for a minute while he ran an errand. Brought puppy over (who had actually kept trying to get back to her house whenever he was outside) and mother dog tried to kill the puppy. A very close call, no one saw it coming. Wow, I guess that is the guardian breed mind of what belongs/what doesn't. I would not have guessed she'd disassociate in 2 days from her pup. Powerful reminder that dogs are indeed predators at heart.

 

[ducks4you]

Nah...don't think that's predator behavior. I think that's Breed behavior and I wouldn't Want a puppy from a mother who behaves like that, certainly not behavior towards her Own puppies.
NONE of my dogs were vicious towards other dogs, certainly Not puppies,
I'm glad that YOU didn't get bitten!

 

[Marie2020]

Nah...don't think that's predator behavior. I think that's Breed behavior and I wouldn't Want a puppy from a mother who behaves like that, certainly not behavior towards her Own puppies.
NONE of my dogs were vicious towards other dogs, certainly Not puppies,
I'm glad that YOU didn't get bitten!

This is only my opinion and I'm not starting a conversation. Because I know very well many just will not agree with me.

It actually hurts my heart (infact it sickens me to the core) that people get their dogs to have puppies for them to sell. £££££'s

Nancy Rose was forced too have puppies, and from what I heard it damaged her.

I can understand that certain breeds might be necessary for farming but to my mind that is something else altogether. But even after my saying the above, certain mix breeds can sometimes be trained or on some occasions it might even come naturally to them

One of the mixed breed dog's I had that was reared in a town. Actually coming from the streets.
That boy surprised me so much when we moved into the country, without any training at all, he automatically started helping a farmer round up his sheep one day.
That farmer didn't like dogs but instantly took to my old lad.

Back to why I don't like dogs being bred to sell. There's millions of dogs out in the world that needs a home.

I've adopted 5 in my lifetime and as I have written above, one of the little mix bred dogs that came from the streets, turned out to being a natural sheep herding lad and the most intelligent dog I have ever known.