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Bekki <jkplai@ucc.su.oz.au> wrote:
>> theworm <theworm@netspace.net.au> writes:
>> 
>> >Unfortunatly you appear to display the attitude that causes many problems
>> >with dogs within the comminuity today. They are dogs not humans and how
>> >many public dog showers or baths do you see in the wild? How often does
>> >a lion or tiger have their coats shampooed?
>> 
>> >Fine if you have dogs that you want to smell like humans or have a nice
>> >fragrence that is your personal write but it no justification for bathing
>> >the dog or telling someone they need to be bathed once a week.
>
>What are the problems that "attitudes" allegedly cause within the dog 
>community? I fail to see what the cleanliness of my dogs has to do with 
>the dog community as a whole. What harm is done?
>Dogs that are raised as pets are not wild animals. Therefore, they don't 
>live as if in the wild. They live with humans, who provide them with 
>care and affection. Do domestic dogs have to hunt for food, or fend for 
>themselves against predators? Pet dogs know nothing else but the care of 
>their owners. If the owner wishes to wash their dogs as a part of this 
>care, then so be it.

Well it would serve you better if you read carefully what I actually 
said.

The problems are what you explained for me. 

That is that domesticated dogs have not gone through evolution thus still 
having some form of these instinctive behaviours, as you say to hunt and 
to fend off predstors. 

They also have the instincts to run chase, stalk and Kill some will eat 
more than others and some will fight more than others this is all due to 
varied levels of basic tool instincts that are left in the particular 
animal or breed.

Example 1: Would you treat the colony of foxes that live in the Melbourne 
cemetery as domesticated. They have learnt to feed on what the human 
population provides and therfore do not have to hunt as much for their 
food but still have the intinctive behaviour to chase and kill but 
they do not always eat what they kill. That is why there are some animals 
that do the hunting and others that do the cooking.

Example 2: Why does the pet dog that has shown acceptance of a new born 
or a niehgbors child for a period of time, suddenly attack one day. 

Because the dog has been put at the bottom of the pack with no obvious 
cause ( fight or submision) so the child pulls the tail or ear and the 
dog decides that it is time for this pack member to earn it's a place and 
a fight ocurrs.

or the children are playing the back yard and a small fight between the 
two children develope and the dog atacks the neighbors child perhaps you 
can tell me why this domesticated dog has attacked. (or did it protect 
himself and his pack member from a perseaved predator)

Your apparent lack of understanding/knowledge of Canine behaviour is the 

ATTITUDE THAT CREATES DOG PROBLEMS WITH IN THE COMMUNITY.



T.T.F.N.H.A.N.D.


THE WORM