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01-25-2013, 06:11 PM #1
An Intelligent Being RE: mysterious dog knowledge
So my friends have this welsch corgi that somehow can tell when an object is dangerous, even if it has no previous knowledge of the objects, AFAWK.
Some of the things that will make it bolt out of the room:
-pocket knives
-Kitchen knives
-Staplers
-Pistols
How does it know? Its tail got cut off with a knife (at least i'm guessing thats how the breeders do it), so maybe thats why its scared of those, but staplers? handguns?
My parents also used to have this beagle that would run to the window every time my mom drove home once she was about a mile out. No routine schedule or anything, just when she got to the neighborhood gate the dog would start to flip.
Whats this about?
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01-25-2013, 06:50 PM #2
My dog stares at me until I do what she wants me to do. What could be smarter than that?
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01-25-2013, 06:52 PM #3
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01-25-2013, 07:02 PM #4
Either the dog was abused, or it's fucking smart. Also, staplers can be loud. Guns are loud. Knives? Idk, maybe he cut himself once.
My dog won't walk out on ice, so that's good.
Dogs also have very good hearing, so your old beagle could tell when your mom was coming from much farther off than you can just by the sound of her particular car.
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01-25-2013, 09:07 PM #5
Breeders don't use knives. Or at least none of repute. There are crude tools that are far more efficient.
Beyond that, I would submit that it is the human emotion imparted on these objects that spurs a reaction from the dog.
Or the dog just has some shit. Lots of dogs do. Often there's nothing to be read into it.
My Catahoula/ Am Bull mix gets high off the Christmas tree. No joke. The thing is like catnip for him. He'll enjoy a evergreen trance as long as we'll allow.
He's scared of doors (they might slam), and the smoke alarm freaks him the fuck out.
Numerous random events and objects, noisy and otherwise, scare the crap out of him.
Give him some cattle in a field though, and he'll herd the shit outta anything that moo's.
Bear? Forget about it. Killed a rattler last summer. Dude's a maniac.
Fearless when it counts, cowardly everywhere else. Just the way they are sometimes.
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01-25-2013, 09:19 PM #6Funky But Chic
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One day we were home watching TV with the dogs lounging around and somebody rang a doorbell on the TV show and the dogs jumped up and ran to the door barking their heads off.
We don't have a doorbell. They've never lived in a house with a doorbell.
But they knew.
How?
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01-25-2013, 09:54 PM #7
One of my dogs will bolt out of the room if you try to take her picture. Doesn't matter what you're taking the picture with or if you're using the flash, all you have to do is point it at her and she immediately runs away. Dogs can be strange animals.
No kick turns
No mercy
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01-25-2013, 09:56 PM #8
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01-25-2013, 10:00 PM #9
Dogs know shit....just deal with it. How many times do they have to deal with it the other way around?
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01-25-2013, 10:32 PM #10Funky But Chic
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01-25-2013, 10:36 PM #11
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01-25-2013, 10:40 PM #12
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01-25-2013, 10:40 PM #13
^Just had a mental image of a drunk Irishman chasing his tail .
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01-25-2013, 10:52 PM #14Funky But Chic
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01-25-2013, 11:11 PM #15
Sorry to hear that ice. Had to put down my dachshund for the same reason about a month ago. That sucked.
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01-25-2013, 11:17 PM #16
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01-26-2013, 06:25 AM #17
What about ASSAULT RIFLES!!!? All those thing put together don't equal the dangerousness of even a photo of an ASSAULT RIFLE!!!.
I've seen several dogs who were afraid of cameras.
Ice - vibes and Heaven for Ginger pup. I don't have a doorbell either. If somebody makes it all the way to my door I fugure they can just come on in.
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01-26-2013, 07:50 AM #18Funky But Chic
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01-26-2013, 09:18 AM #19
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01-26-2013, 09:39 AM #20
Damn, Ice. Sorry to hear. You too, Single.
Last edited by Mazderati; 01-26-2013 at 12:01 PM.
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01-26-2013, 09:54 AM #21
Most dogs are smarter them most TGR posters.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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01-26-2013, 10:32 AM #22
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01-26-2013, 11:00 AM #23
RIP Ginger... 14 years is a pretty good run, but makes it all the more difficult, I'm sure.
I always like to tell people the main thing I learned while studying with the Dali Lama in Tibet for three years, is coming back as a dog in [YOUR TOWN], is the highest level of life one can attain.Screw the net, Surf the backcountry!
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01-26-2013, 11:18 AM #24
Cool NOVA special on dogs and their intelligence worth watching... I think it may be on Netfilix, too:
DOGS DECODED
THE VIDEO
Otis knows whenever I am about to get on the highway (at least 2 or 3 times a day). Before I'm even on the ramp, he's down on the floor behind the seats... definitely the safest place to be for him (with me at the wheel).
He must hear the road noise, but they read so many cues from things we are completely ignorant of, I'm sure.
Sorry to hear of your pup loss, too, Single. Dachshunds are very cool and tough little f'rs.Last edited by BigDaddy; 01-26-2013 at 12:00 PM.
Screw the net, Surf the backcountry!
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01-26-2013, 01:46 PM #25
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