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.

My dog that died last October, was as soft as a brush and he came from a mother like that. But she was starved and forced too keep having 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 make money out if them.

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.

 

[heirloomgal]

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!

I agree ducks, it's not really a predator thing in this case so much as a breed thing. The mother has 2 strong guardian breeds in her genes and for whatever reason (smell likely people surmise) she identified that puppy as not belonging there. Most of the other puppies are still with her, and she's wonderful with them. The resident cat, whom the dog had lived with just fine all her life, started to feel like being around the new puppies wasn't safe for her and disappeared for a solid week. The dog decided that, for a time, the cat did not belong there. Cat has since returned though and hasn't been harmed. I wasn't there when it happened, so there was no risk to me. But I have been in MANY situations where a dog is trying to kill or maim another dog and it deeply disturbs me. I dislike that energy tremendously. I like dogs, but I have seen what they're capable of.

 

[heirloomgal]

My dog that died last October, was as soft as a brush and he came from a mother like that. But she was starved and forced too keep having puppies.

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 make money out if them.

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.

This dog wasn't purposely bred, and she's never had puppies before. My friend really did not want a litter. Her dog was never allowed to roam free or be put in a situation where something could happen, but someone else was letting their dog run unsupervised and he jumped the fence into her yard. Sad.

I agree that there is far too much suffering in this world when it comes to domesticated animals, of any kind. Anything that can be done to reduce that I think should be done. But where I live dogs don't wind up in shelters because of overpopulation, generally, they end up there because of problematic behaviors that the people can't cope with. We have a SERIOUS epidemic of dog aggression in my city, and that is very much tied to dogs seeing themselves as the leader, and the humans the followers. Leads to disaster for everyone involved.