Lynne Barrows Webboard User Reg: 09-22-2007
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Quote: randy allen
How do they stop the animal from just saying up yours and heading out to sea?
I used to be a dive instructor on an island called Roatan, off the coast of Honduras. One of the resorts there (Anthony's Key Resort) does dolphin dives where they take you on a boat and the dolphins follow (open ocean)and meet you at a spot where you can observe them underwater.
I think what keeps them coming back is the food and maybe the fact that they are social animals and the rest of their pod is back at the resort. They stay in pens in the shallows that they could easily jump out of, but I don't ever remember hearing about any escaping.
Yikes!
Now there is adversive/compulsive training for you. Come back or you starve to death!
Here here, on the work is it's own satisfaction and reward. That is the premise of the founders vision of the GSD.
Extending that a bit though, I've long been a advocate for just following the dog. Doesn't matter what the dog is enre to breeding, find out what turns the dog on and training becomes easy, that 'work' is it's own reward for the dog.
I *also* think there's something to be said for the treatment of military marine animals vs Sea World's marine animals.
The military has very, VERY strict guidelines concerning their animals. They can only work so long. They are often not kept in "tanks", but rather in open water that has been fenced off.
They have the opportunity to swim in open water, at their top speeds, regularly. They are not subjected to the stress of performing in front of loud crowds, to loud music, 8+ hours a day.
So, in general, they're much more content animals, and I think the research into their intelligence would indicate that they probably realize how good they have it.
I would suspect that dolphins, like dogs, often appreciate the challenge of the jobs before them. Unlike "trick" dolphins, the tasks given a military are rarely repetitive, and actually challenge their intellect.
Not the best photo but I think that's what this is.
Thanks. Doesn't look very comfortable but I can't really think of an alternative way to do it.
I doubt its particularly uncomfortable. I have to imagine they're acclimated to it really young.
Its believed that the dolphin Takoma, that went AWOL while operationally deployed in the middle east, returned because he was wearing his anti-foraging device, and eventually got hungry after being missing for a week.
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