We live with and domesticate several animals but the love of a dog and visa versa is different. Since they came from wolves why are they so loyal versus a cat or horse? Stray dogs can become 100% bonded to people on the first meeting as some of us have experienced. Why? Can they sense something in us? They show more affection than any other animals and are protective of our children and infants. It is as if it is part of evolution.
the bolded being the operative word. Mine, just as much as yours, thinks I'm (you are) its servant. And it's right. Had I not humiliated myself into that role, it would have gone in search of somebody else who's more in line with its egomaniac sense of own grandiosity.Same as between cats and people. I love my cat dearly and the cat seems to love me.
Well, I'm not going to bond with any Tiger, believe you me.I have thought about this bonding, and it seems to me that all mammals are instinctively given to bonding with others.
Actually they do it only because they're accustomed to us. If raised by us from puppy- respectively kittenhood. Hence my example above of wild cats. Try even getting near a wild wolf. Where we haven't bred any feral instincts out of them completely, we're suppressing thos all their lives by keeping them puppy or kitten permanently. Since it benefits them it doesn't occur to them to mind that.We tend to bond with any that treat us well and seem to love us.
Dogs and cats do the same thing.
Objection, yer honor. Orcas savaging other whales is not my idea of bonding, nor is chimp gangs doing the same to another. In the latter case, come across one like that in the wilds and you'd better make tracks. Every single one if them is stronger than you are. Horses, devoid of claws and hooves, are by necessity animals of flight. They won't bond with you in the wild, you need to break them. In the more modern method "persuade".It seems to be a common mammalian trait -- orca, elephant, horse, canine, feline, monkey, dolphin, weasel, ferret, etc.
the bolded being the operative word. Mine, just as much as yours, thinks I'm (you are) its servant. And it's right. Had I not humiliated myself into that role, it would have gone in search of somebody else who's more in line with its egomaniac sense of own grandiosity.
With wild cats that doesn't work, incidentally. They never become domesticated even where they'll eat what you lay out for them.
Well, I'm not going to bond with any Tiger, believe you me.
Actually they do it only because they're accustomed to us. If raised by us from puppy- respectively kittenhood. Hence my example above of wild cats. Try even getting near a wild wolf. Where we haven't bred any feral instincts out of them completely, we're suppressing thos all their lives by keeping them puppy or kitten permanently. Since it benefits them it doesn't occur to them to mind that.
Objection, yer honor. Orcas savaging other whales is not my idea of bonding, nor is chimp gangs doing the same to another. In the latter case, come across one like that in the wilds and you'd better make tracks. Every single one if them is stronger than you are. Horses, devoid of claws and hooves, are by necessity animals of flight. They won't bond with you in the wild, you need to break them. In the more modern method "persuade".
Etc., etc.
We live with and domesticate several animals but the love of a dog and visa versa is different. Since they came from wolves why are they so loyal versus a cat or horse? Stray dogs can become 100% bonded to people on the first meeting as some of us have experienced. Why? Can they sense something in us? They show more affection than any other animals and are protective of our children and infants. It is as if it is part of evolution.
You're lucky, mine lies down ON the keyboard, laptop, anything that gets more attention than it does.:mrgreen:Dear Chagos, when I mentioned Orcas I had the aquarium captives in mind. With monkeys, the pets. With horses, the domesticated. I am no expert at these species however.
NO wild animal of any kind is going to get close to or bond with a human. Not even feral cats and dogs.
I raised my cat since the day he was born, from within an hour of his birth, by his feral mother cat in the closet on my patio on a cold winter night. He is not socialized and runs away from everyone else except for me. He sleeps curled up next to me on my bed. If he hears a sound in the night he stirs and wakes me too, then he leaps after the sound and whatever made it. He wakes me to feed him in the mornings around dawn. He sits next to me on my desk when I work on my computer. When he sees me outside he comes running to me and rolls over so I can scratch his belly. Whenever he wants something he meows. Whenever I pet him he purrs and stretches.
He licks my fingers, my hands, and my face.
I think it is love.
He has killed 4 squirrels, 4 birds, 1 mouse and 1 big rat. So he is not a kitten anymore. He brings these carcasses home to feed me. (Naturally I throw them all away of course.)
His job is to wake me at night whenever he hears anything and to keep the neighborhood free of rodents. He is very good at his job.
I truly enjoy his company more than any human that I have ever known. (Sorry but I come from a broken family.)
I think it is also love.
Let 'em wear glasses"They have a soul, damn you!"
Same as between cats and people.
Yeah......NO.
Cats are not like dogs at all.
You are loyal to your cat.
Dogs are loyal to you.
There's a HUGE and very real difference.
Dogs are pack animals (social predators).
When a dog moves in to your home you and your family become its pack.
Simple as that.
We live with and domesticate several animals but the love of a dog and visa versa is different. Since they came from wolves why are they so loyal versus a cat or horse? Stray dogs can become 100% bonded to people on the first meeting as some of us have experienced. Why? Can they sense something in us? They show more affection than any other animals and are protective of our children and infants. It is as if it is part of evolution.
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