Humans, what with our massive pre-frontal cortex, imagine ourselves to have 100% neuroplasticity. Truth is, we have ALL of that mammalian firmware in there - we tend make 'choices' by pitting one of them against another and seeing who wins in the mental pit-fiights.
These dogs may well be YOUR best friend, but they will gladly kill anyone that hurts you - and will sleep just fine at night. They do not have our inner conflicts.
They have inner conflicts, they are just less complex. Hunger, comfort, thirst, danger, and other biological drives constantly compete. Humans just are able to invent tigers of our own making.
Yeah I'm not entirely sure I'm really following the previous comment at all. Dogs are mammals too. We both have "firmware". We both have neuroplasticity. What the point is or how that leads to "they will kill for you and not care" I'm not sure.
Cool example of the different traits of each breed and for what purpose. Nice job 👍
1. although not retrieving the Husky the Collie is bring the stray back into the Pack. ‘here ya go master’
2. ‘yes sir lets move forward!’
My wife said the same thing about our pomeranian/chihuahua mix. I proved her wrong when I learned he was fighting with the groomer after I passed off the leash. At first he was like "oh new person, we're friends and I love you!" and when he realized I was walking away it went to "fuck you, I don't know you! You're not my supervisor!"
My GSD/lab is a dumb angel who doesn’t even realize that rules can BE broken.. my GSD/Husky will sometimes stare at me for a whole ass minute while he thinks long and hard about whether the reward I’m offering is worth the tradeoff.
My old coonhound… once rolled down, and jumped out of, the window of my moving car to run to a nearby campsite and steal a strangers hotdog right out of their hands.
All trained the same, obsessively and to the absolute best of my abilities, but they’re all just so damn different lol
Same with my Golden! I saw a meme that said “there is no greater bond than that of a Golden Retriever and a stranger they just met” if that isn’t the absolute truth lol. My neighbor has a lab and she will literally sit on your feet so you have to keep petting her and she does that to basically anyone who gives her the slightest interest haha.
If my JRT escaped the house without a leash, he's impossible to catch unless he wants to be caught. If I drop the leash while he is on one, he really doesn't notice. All bets are off if a squirrel passes by while the leash is dropped, though.
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