Duane Hull Webboard User Reg: 09-23-2011
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Dogs are so intelligent that, like us, intuition is almost a learned behavior. After all, one thing that many of us here believe is that dogs are keen on body language and physical cues. When you are sick, your scent, physical appearance, movements, and activity level all change. For any halfway smart dog, that's easy pickins'.
Dolphins, whales, and elephants all display compassion. Horses and cats pbly could too, if they gave a damn.
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My cats offer affection when I'm agitated. I had one senior that would only make biscuits on my stomach when I had stomach pain. I think there is a value built into our relationship with other animals that makes offering comfort mutually beneficial... paying into the cookie bank, as it were.
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Horses display compassion towards one another and humans as well. I've seen and heard it too often to discount their ability to show it.
Scent does change in illness, Ph change is appar** there is that nice story about the pup who cuddles dogs coming out of anesthesia. But do dogs show the same behaviors towards sick members of the same species as they do humans?
My animals are not "like" family, they ARE family.
Duane Hull Webboard User Reg: 09-23-2011
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JK about the horses and cats!! I've actually had some of both that I really loved (enough to give 'em a hard time!).
Dogs that show that behavior to their humans also show it with their other packmates. They will also stay with and grieve over a deceased dog that they're close to.
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NBD Duane - I think it's interesting given that cats aren't a 'social' beast per se - horses I would expect more cooperative behavior from given that they're a herd animal. Dogs make sense.
I recall burying one of my Kerry Blues in the garden when he passed.
My two Border terriers were laying on the porch watching me. Heads between their front feet and they didn't move throughout the whole process. They looked very much in mourning laying there. RIIIIGHT!
Wife called me at work the next day screaming "They're digging up Rocky! They're digging up Rocky".
In my own sorrow I didn't give a thought to how these two experienced, "working" earth dogs got reeeealy intense when they see me with a shovel.
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