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Yesterday I bought a Sig P220. It's stainless steel two-tone, nice looking gun. Anyways, I took it out of its case today, and my dog immediately cowered. I didn't even point it at her, but I motioned toward her with it in a questioning manner and she ran away. She's never seen or heard a gun. How would she know what it does?
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I think dogs may have some sort of sense which just knows that the item may harm them. I mean, dogs and other animals act funny before an earthquake comes so clearly they have some other senses we don't.
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I think dogs may have some sort of sense which just knows that the item may harm them. I mean, dogs and other animals act funny before an earthquake comes so clearly they have some other senses we don't. [/ QUOTE ] I dont know the answer... but I would assume that this is almost certainly not it. A sense that differs from humans (ie. dogs can hear sound at different frequencies than us) can be explained by evolutionary pressures. There are no such pressures on a dog to be afraid of a gun. Thus, it is almost certainly some sort of a learned and not innate behaviour. |
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TV?
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it's probably not the gun, it's the action...
take your finger and point it like you're pointing a gun....I think a lot of dogs are used to that motion as meaning "bad dog" and reacting that way. RB |
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recyclical carnation memory?
Maybe dogs have more sustained memory of previous lives and incarnations. If so, he might have been around many guns in his past life as hunting dog/and or killed/maimed by a gun when police or war dogging for an ancient roman army? And don't say it's not possible. |
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recyclical carnation memory? Maybe dogs have more sustained memory of previous lives and incarnations. If so, he might have been around many guns in his past life as hunting dog/and or killed/maimed by a gun when police or war dogging for an ancient roman army? And don't say it's not possible. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah those Carthaginians had some pretty impressive firearms. Wonder how the Romans beat them? |
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[ QUOTE ] recyclical carnation memory? Maybe dogs have more sustained memory of previous lives and incarnations. If so, he might have been around many guns in his past life as hunting dog/and or killed/maimed by a gun when police or war dogging for an ancient roman army? And don't say it's not possible. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah those Carthaginians had some pretty impressive firearms. Wonder how the Romans beat them? [/ QUOTE ] Oops. I meant to say Napoleonic army. Actually the Turks took Constantinople when it was part of the Western Roman Empire with gunpowder. |
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Grand Tourismo and other video games. I don't think dogs feared guns until nintendo duck hunt came out. it's been getting worse and worse ever since.
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I don't think dogs feared guns until nintendo duck hunt came out. [/ QUOTE ] but i thought the dog got all happy when he had a duck to go collect? |
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