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28-04-2011, 01:03 PM
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28-04-2011, 01:18 PM
As do dogs, ie
freeze
flight
fight
fart about
So is fear scent from dogs the same?
Extreme fear will result in evacuation of anal glands, do they all smell the same?
Does fear have to be taught, or is some of it instinctive (refer to Desmond Morris text years ago re animals in wild and humans and spiders) ie hence the "fear" stages dogs and other animals, including us go through?
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28-04-2011, 02:33 PM
To say otherwise is absolutely ridiculous. IMO.
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28-04-2011, 05:52 PM
Originally Posted by Kerriebaby 
sorry, didnt mean to start a scrap...just very very curious. Every single breeder/rescue of Northern Breeds (and their x's) have said that these dogs should never be let off lead. Their is a very good article somewhere, about trust being the biggest killer of Huskies and Mals.
Thing is, you dont have to condem them to a dull life of lead, their is scootering/rigs/ enclosed safe areas etc. Which begs the question (not meaning to be nit picking) why did you get these breeds, if you wanted dogs that you could let off lead
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28-04-2011, 05:56 PM
Originally Posted by Gnasher
I know EXACTLY why Tai likes to lunge at the chickens in their pens ... because it is FUN to see them all flying up in the air squawking their heads off. It is prey drive - if he could, he would get in there and kill them. It is up to me to stop him doing that, quickly. Which I have done. With a couple of tugs and some sharp "no's", he no longer does it. Until the next time
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28-04-2011, 06:00 PM
Originally Posted by Gnasher
I really must learn to stop joking ... yet again, my flippant and obviously pathetic attempt at humour fell on stony ground!
I was JOKING Ben! I don't expect Tai to go back to his old naughty chicken-frightening ways, but I suspect that he might try and slip one in one day just to see if we are still on our toes
that's not a question of having been, or not having been, trained correctly. That is merely taking account of his breeding - mal/husky mix, high prey drive, highly intelligent, norty gene!
" So you think you dog is planning this - just to see if you are on your toes......mmmnn I dont think so! That is giving him human atributes!
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28-04-2011, 06:03 PM
Originally Posted by Gnasher
ALL animals, us included, can "smell" fear - although, to be more accurate, all animals can indirectly smell fear - via sweat, pheromones, anal gland fluid, bladder or bowel evacuation, rapid breath odour - we have probably lost the ability to do this through our un-natural modern lifestyles.
To say otherwise is absolutely ridiculous. IMO.
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28-04-2011, 09:04 PM
Originally Posted by Lou SA
"but I suspect that he might try and slip one in one day just to see if we are still on our toes
" So you think you dog is planning this - just to see if you are on your toes......mmmnn I dont think so! That is giving him human atributes!
Using hyperbole, call it what you like. Satire, sarcasm. The clue is in the wink.
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