Re: Dogs - sheesh!
I would also question this highly improbable supposition that all dogs are perfectly wonderful creatures that apparently don't have any nasty inborn nasty traits. What a load of hogwash. If you apply that to any living creature with half a brain it can be extended to include us. Are we then all born the same with none of our own characteristics and behaviour? How then can twins be totally different from each other yet brought up exactly the same in the same family environment?Re: Dogs - sheesh!
Some dogs IMO are predisposed to being more aggressive but it's mostly how they are treated that can tame that, our old Katie was a corgi her mother rejected her and was a really human aggressive dog, we did wonder when we took her on what she would be like, but with love and gentleness and with us making sure all her human interactions were 100% positive she grew into a lovely dog. Loved people and other dogs, only thing we would have been nervous about was he becoming a mother as she had such a bad start with her own mother so we just ensured that could never happen.Re: Dogs - sheesh!
I think the whole issue throws up more philosophical questions than answers to be honest. Nobody has yet been able to answer definitively the nature/nurture debate and it continues to rage. We are swamped with anecdotal evidence for both sides incidentally.Re: Dogs - sheesh!
Re: Dogs - sheesh!
I blame capitalism myself (that should get them all wound up ), the unalienable right to territory over and above animals and the natural world generally.Re: Dogs - sheesh!
Re: Dogs - sheesh!
Re: Dogs - sheesh!
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