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re: OT, why do ya'll care more about dogs than humans?
Posted on 3/18/15 at 12:16 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
Posted on 3/18/15 at 12:16 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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Dogs are good by nature. All they want to do is love and be loved.
I don't know about all that. I would agree for the most part, but some dogs are trained to do something, and that's all they care about. Collies and Shepards can be like that.
You can throw a ball with them for an hour, and they retrieve it everytime. You finally stop doing it and want to pet and hug the dog and it looks at you like "get the frick off me and throw the damn ball again"
There's some that view the world as I have a job, to do what my master tells me, and i don't care about anything else and i don't need thank you's.
My buddy has a Border Collie like that. Awesome dog, but cold hearted.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 12:32 pm to TeddyPadillac
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My buddy has a Border Collie like that. Awesome dog, but cold hearted.
So your buddy's dog is just like an eastern european woman.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 12:57 pm to TeddyPadillac
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Man and dog evolved socially together. It's natural.
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Why do people lavish so much care on a member of an alien species? A short answer is that on an emotional plane, families do not see the dog as alien. According to John Archer (1) of the University of Central Lancashire, who has conducted a detailed study of dog-human relations from an evolutionary perspective, about 40% of owners identify their dog as a family member reflecting social compatibility between our two species.
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Dogs are extraordinarily attentive and have an uncanny ability to predict what their owners will do, whether getting the dog a meal or preparing to go on a walk. Experiments show that dogs and wolves can be astute readers of human body language using the direction of our gaze to locate hidden food (2) a problem that is beyond chimps.
Dogs also seem attuned to the emotional state of their masters and express contrition when the owner is annoyed, for example. Otherwise, the capacity to express affection -unconditionally - makes the dog a valued "family member."
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According to Groves: "The human-dog relationship amounts to a very long lasting symbiosis. Dogs acted as human's alarm systems, trackers, and hunting aides, garbage disposal facilities, hot water bottles, and children's guardians and playmates. Humans provided dogs with food and security. The relationship was stable over 100,000 years or so, and intensified in the Holocene into mutual domestication. Humans domesticated dogs and dogs domesticated humans."
Man and dog evolved socially together. It's natural.
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