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dangin

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8. I'm producing a documentary on dog behavior

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #7)

Thu Sep 18, 2014, 07:22 AM

Sep 2014

The trained behaviorist I'm working with pointed this footage out to me months ago.

1. Dogs don't understand breathing, they certainly don't understand fish respiration.

2. The dog is burying the fish.

3. Please don't anthropomorphize. It almost always makes us wrong.

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The Fish Whisperer. [View all] Uncle Joe Sep 2014 OP

*Such* a sweet dog. Old Crow Sep 2014 #1

Umm dangin Sep 2014 #2

LOL... if true, this thread is now hilarious. :) (EOM) Old Crow Sep 2014 #3

No, I don't think so. The dog studies the FACE of the fish... Peace Patriot Sep 2014 #5

Having watched this clip more times than I care to admit... Old Crow Sep 2014 #6

That was my take on it as well, Old Crow. n/t Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #7

I'm producing a documentary on dog behavior dangin Sep 2014 #8

How do you know that Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #9

Hi uncle joe. dangin Sep 2014 #10

Hi dangin. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #11

Nope, the dog is NOT digging. It is flipping WATER onto the fish. Peace Patriot Sep 2014 #12

Altruism? dangin Sep 2014 #13

Well that explains that, but has your animal behaviorist friend figured out Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #14

Is it possible? dangin Sep 2014 #17

And the starving lioness in the above video adopting baby antelopes? Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #18

Evolution... dangin Sep 2014 #19

You never answered my question regarding the lioness. Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #21

Umm dangin Sep 2014 #22

The question was "why did she do it?" Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #23

No dangin Sep 2014 #24

Logic dictates "knowing the answer" would shed light on the behavior even if Uncle Joe Sep 2014 #25

Logic dictates dangin Sep 2014 #26

You do know that's NOT the same dog as the one in the first video, right? (EOM) Old Crow Sep 2014 #15

Two things. dangin Sep 2014 #16

Also dangin Sep 2014 #20

When I was younger I would spend summers at my Aunt's farm and our closest Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #4