Monday, February 7, 2011

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Our dog, Dash, and the wolf within him

Introducing Pinch

E his is Dash, our Dachshund (which is often called sausage) of hard hair. The photo is from when he came to us about three months, now six years. As I told in the entry on my hounds, " Goodbye, mastiffs, goodbye "Dash came home to overcome losses, past dogs, both for ourselves and for our mastina, Bola. I also talked to her and put a minivídeo in an entry called" white Weekend " .
wanted to have a dog that could be most of the time indoors, not the dogs, and it was rustic to enjoy our countryside walks. Pinch gives us all that and more with it, the boredom exists.

Although his hair should be hard to get through the brambles without getting hooked, as hunters use this race as a dog brush, the truth is it is not so among its wool field brings all kinds of sticks, seeds and "arrancamoños" many, as a showcase of plants used to place animals for seed dispersal ( zoochory ).

As spends many hours outside, in the garden and in our walks, regardless of soaking in puddles and snow, even enjoying it, we let their hair long during the winter, but was cut in spring arrives. It seems like another dog, even the color is different, being the innermost layer of hair. Pinch hair never changes naturally, it is continuously growing, so is forced passage through the salon. The great advantage is that it does not stain the house with its fallen hairs.

And once completed presentations step title track to this post. On the behavior of dogs and wolves, and what we teach pinch.


Dogs and wolves are the same species
Thanks to modern science that studies the DNA of living beings are describing new species from populations we assumed they were one but externally only if we are able to differentiate. Any naturalist with little fondness for amphibians and reptiles sure you know what I speak. That science, every so often reminds us that humans and higher primates share much of our genome. Well, the same genetic analysis tell us that dogs and wolves are the same species: Canis lupus . Not even clear that dogs are a subspecies has the meaning given to that word in other animal groups. There is therefore the species Canis familiaris , but would, at best, the subspecies Canis lupus familiaris .
certainly see a chihuahua who may have doubts that it is a wolf, but not least, if we see the same little dog next to a St. Bernard. And those doubts are dispelled when we see more Nordic breed dog, such as the Alaskan Malamute by a wolf, so similar that most of us try casting film as such.

then try to explain two pinch behavior and its relationship to the wolf behavior. Are much more, but I have to get new photos and video.


Submission or puppy behavior.

All who deal with dogs are used to seeing the position they take our pets puppy, not only when they have a few months, but on many occasions throughout his life. Panza above, with the neck While the legs stretched and opened her womb let us see that puppies are also hairless. In extreme cases of nervousness even drop a few drops of urine on his belly. It is a sign of total submission that allows the dog (or human) dominant ensure that it is a puppy with its characteristic odor and poses no threat. Cahorrro conduct of that act has become dominated individual behavior to his superior. Paste

a puppy urination, nervousness prisoner, when we got home, only worsens the situation. It is best to ignore him, ignore him and hope he settles down in order to "tell" you do not need to submit to that level.
Ball In the next photo, the dominant mastina, sniffs and licks the womb that offers pinch. Domestication of the wolf to lead the dog was artificially selected based on children's characters. This is very evident in some of the races because of their small size, large eyes and head flat and round, but more so for their behavior towards us, humans, who consider lifetime (or should consider) as leaders of the pack and solicitors of food.

Another typical behavior of dogs on their owners, is that when they are received after an absence, trying to lick the corners of the mouth. This act is similar to of wolf pups (and other canines) by which they obtain food than their parents. The lamentones at the corners of the mouth cause regurgitation of food that parents bring in the stomach.

A dog tries to lick us mouth is telling us that for him are like their parents, leaders of the pack, though that act has lost the sense of a meal that had originally. For pure health left I do not recommend sucking mouth smelled like ass would not recommend a dog to greet you, but not bad get licked a bit on the side of the face to show that we accept this situation.

There is no better gift for a dog owner of a powerful race, like the mastiff, that this demonstration of submission by an animal of nearly 100 kilos of weight, we could smash your face if he wanted.


Kill Dam ... rag.


Dogs are hunters, but what are some races than others. The development of hunting instincts will also depend on the education they offer their masters. But even in less hunting dogs, as pinch despite their race, the game will show the patterns of a predator.

Dash, and any dog \u200b\u200bthat is carried out by a doll cloth, a knotted rope or a plastic bottle, it will bite the site equivalent to the neck and shake him like a rat or a rabbit he wants from the spine. It is the way a wild animal kills quickly to small dams. None of drowning or bleeding, a rap ends with the agony of their prey quickly and efficiently.

Previously, if the toy-dam, is large enough, there will be a "freezing" by placing his body over until you have done a good boarding with his mouth. In a wild canid that is the culmination of the act of hunting, possibly after many other attempts failed and that will be the beginning of another phase, to appease their hunger. But there is a dog home game sets disappointing failures, and there is no exhaustion or hunger, there is an excess of energy that turns into wanting to play and repeat the "launch game" as many times as its owner wants to throw the toy amuse .


In his book "Ethology of the wolf and the dog" David Nieto Maceín da which in my opinion is the best explanation of the damage that wolves do when they come into a sheep pen. As this author has, for a wolf hunt a wild ungulate size of a sheep, a deer, you have to many previous attempts, harassment, sets failed and overcome the defense that the dam is his life. That exhausts its energy threshold for hunting and once achieved is only part eaten. But in a sheep pen hunting there, easy, no runs, no outs, without defense, without errors. The wolves kill their energy still intact and as the little dog that goes for the toy over and over and shakes it to kill the wolf attacks, kills or injures animal as it is put forward.


The following video I hope it is explained as Pinch me shows a part of the wolf in him, the good wolf, of course.












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