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How do dogs know what guns are?
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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Re: How do dogs know what guns are?
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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Re: How do dogs know what guns are?
TV?
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Re: How do dogs know what guns are?
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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Re: How do dogs know what guns are?
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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Re: How do dogs know what guns are?
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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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Re: How do dogs know what guns are?
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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Re: How do dogs know what guns are?
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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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Re: How do dogs know what guns are?
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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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Re: How do dogs know what guns are?
you let your dog watch too many violent shows on tv.
either that or blame one of the ghosts in your house. |
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