Willtell
5:24 Mon Aug 28
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Dogs live in the moment. They accept whatever happens to them as they have no past history nor future aims to compare the present events to.
Add in the inability to speak so they are not very good at reasoning which is what the real question means I think.
Their lack of reason and inability to think much allows them to loyally stick to their owners for food and a bit of exercise. Can you imagine how bad they’d be if they started to think like wives?
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Bungo
3:53 Mon Aug 28
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Nurse Ratched 3:43 Mon Aug 28
'Dog whisperer' is right. Sometimes you see one of the featured dogs just look at him, and you can almost see them thinking, 'I'm not going to mess about with this one. He's properly in charge.'
We looked into hiring him once for our lead-tugging Springer, but he is not just massively expensive but fully booked for a long time ahead!
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Nurse Ratched
3:43 Mon Aug 28
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Bungo, he probably would have become a completely different dog. Those 'dog whisperer' blokes have amazing skills. Looking back, I can't imagine what my parents were thinking, allowing such an aggressive and bite-happy dog around me and their grandchildren (who were only a few years younger than me).
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Bungo
3:14 Mon Aug 28
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Nurse Ratched 9:13 Sun Aug 27
I'd like to have seen what Graeme Hall of Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly could have done with Pepe.
I have never seen anyone get such fast control of any dog as him.
Of course it could all be in the editing but it may not?
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BRANDED
11:44 Mon Aug 28
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What is thinking?
Does chat GPT think?
The history of philosophy has tried to explain consciousness. There are as many explanations as philosophers. Does a new born child think or do we merely train it to be like us?
We certainly have trained dogs to not be wolves.
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Bungo
10:53 Mon Aug 28
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Alfs 2:38 Mon Aug 28
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"I have a Springer Spaniel and one of the signs that they are thinking is raising one front paw. She also dreams and sometimes growls in her sleep."
Our Springer dreams regularly too. She seems to be having epic adventure dreams based on the noises she makes, the loud puffing and the 'sleep-running' that often goes on. We often assume it's some sort of dog version of an Indiana Jones film going on in her head.
Seems to be thick as mince when awake though.🤷♂️
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Alfs
2:38 Mon Aug 28
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Of course dogs think. As do all mammals.
I have a Springer Spaniel and one of the signs that they are thinking is raising one front paw. She also dreams and sometimes growls in her sleep.
She's very intelligent too, and is currently studying for a degree in theology with the Open University.
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gph
2:20 Mon Aug 28
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Yes.
Most dogs figure out those kissing gates that farmers use to keep sheep in a field while letting humans come and go.
But they don't think like us. You need language to do that.
A tiny handful of dogs have been taught the meaning of verb-noun combinations, and the number of verbs is less than ten. The number of nouns is several hundred, though.
And they would never learn this by themselves
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gph
2:20 Mon Aug 28
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Yes.
Most dogs figure out those kissing gates that farmers use to keep sheep in a field while letting humans come and go.
But they don't think like us. You need language to do that.
A tiny handful of dogs have been taught the meaning of verb-noun combinations, and the number of verbs is less than ten. The number of nouns is several hundred, though.
And they would never learn this by themselves
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jfk
1:35 Mon Aug 28
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Our mutts a German Shorthaired Pointer take it from me they’re clever fuckers.
I almost have conversations with it and seems to know what I’m on about half the time.
Out thinks rabbits and squirrels without trying.
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Matthew Holmes
12:12 Mon Aug 28
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Nurse Ratched 9:13 Sun Aug 27
my old Biology teacher at school (around 1981)
was a good bloke (we all thought so anyway)
he told us 10% of dogs are gay
about the same as humans - apparenty
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BBondsBootlaces
10:36 Sun Aug 27
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Calm down Leonard. When you post let the page refresh bruv.
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Mike Oxsaw
9:48 Sun Aug 27
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My ex- thought it perfectly fine to spend the money I'd set aside to pay the mortgage on cut flowers "to make the house look pretty", so, yes is the right answer.
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Nurse Ratched
9:13 Sun Aug 27
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My mum had a beloved 'toy' poodle called Zoony (?sp?) He died while she was giving birth to me in hospital, so that was yet another thing that didn't endear me to her. Anyway, soon after someone bought her another toy poodle. She called him Pepe. The fucking thing was a swine. If anybody other than my mum or dad so much as made eye contact with him, let alone approached or went to touch him, he would bare his teeth and snarl. He would happily try to bite people.
Anyway, that menace absolutely had an appreciation of cause-effect. He refused to walk on a lead. If my dad tried to put a lead on him, he would go up on his hind legs with his front paws crisscrossed over the lead, yelping and making a fuss till allowed to go free.
My dad gave up taking him for walks and just let him go out by himself to do his business and run around. Pepe would stand at the door and bark to be let out and back in again. This was in the 70s, obviously. I would say that dog definitely could 'think' and work things out.
Our next dog, called 'Ben' was a pedigree, but large 'throwback' Yorkshire terrier. He was a cuddly and affectionate boy. He was also highly neurotic and a rampant homosexual. In the park he would ONLY try to mount male dogs. Not only that, but he would always go for the wrong end. My brother-in-law had a theory that half the dogs in our area were deaf in one ear as a result of Ben's advances.
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Briano
9:03 Sun Aug 27
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Food and fear drives a dogs primitive thought process, then the bitch being in season it all goes out the window
Simples
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pdbis
8:45 Sun Aug 27
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No, as they can't do anything for themselves.
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yngwies Cat
8:29 Sun Aug 27
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I am led to believe dogs do think 'Oh Fuck!! Leg it'
When Son Heung-min, is about.
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Keep dreaming
8:29 Sun Aug 27
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I asked you what? I think you have been dreaming of me boy.
You have not been ripping the piss of anyone else but yourself, you drunk old abusing cunt.
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Hammer and Pickle
8:14 Sun Aug 27
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Our brachet is dead terrified of plastic bags. Rustle one in the kitchen and she goes upstairs giving you a hang-dog glance. Handle a plastic bag and she’ll recoil from your hand. Horrible really.
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Leonard Hatred
7:53 Sun Aug 27
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Listen, you dense CUNT.
I've stopped ripping the piss out of you recently because you asked me not to, because it made you upset and it hurt your feelings.
If you're gonna persist with this witless shit then I'll continue to make you look a cunt every time you post.
It's up to you.
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Leonard Hatred
7:52 Sun Aug 27
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Listen, you dense CUNT.
I've stopped ripping the piss out of you recently because you asked me not to, because it made you upset and it hurt your feelings.
If you're gonna persist with this witless shit then I'll continue to make you look a cunt every time you post.
It's up to you.
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