Dogs have a concept of property, amirite?

Dogs (or atlest ones I associate with) also have a concept of supply and demand. They recognize that some treats are more valuable than others, and as such withold some tricks or work in absence of proper payment. A stolen object or food is always the most valuable, and they almost force themselves to enjoy them, even kf they clearly don't. Also they tend to value treats, foods or toys in posession of other dogs higher than those in their own posession at the same time.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

On god. My dogs will be ignoring a dropped veggie until another dog goes to sniff it then somehow it is desireable.

by No-Rice-698 1 week ago

Must be some kind of survival drive? The behavior is curious. I'd love to be able to slap a "Doug" collar from Up on a dog. It would be so neat to know how dogs think, straight from the erm... Horses mouth.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think it's more that we bred dogs to have the mentality of a four-year-old child. Go watch a couple of pre-schoolers playing with toys or eating snacks, and you will see similar behavior.

by Maximum_List 1 week ago

I've worked a small amount with wolves (either exotic pets or even rehab in some cases) and young wolves act the same, even the ones that weren't ever pets and were always wild. It's more like dogs never fully grow up (in my opinion) and stay puppies/teens most of their lives. I don't know how much of that is breeding or how much is the way we interact with them as house dogs will display these traits differently to a guard dog or a working sheep dog as an example.

by Commercial-Brain 1 week ago

I get the toddlers reaction, greed is rather intrinsic to pre-developed human survival, but I think that's drawing parallels that aren't there?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah the concept of my dog's property is basically everything they can see. I need to get a fence eventually.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Like yesterday dude, you'd be devastated if you lost them.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Dogs have a concept of territory not property.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You give a dog a toy that becomes their favorite toy, just watch their jealousy and sense of injustice rise when you invite another dog over and they start playing with their toy

by jmarquardt 1 week ago

He's a lab, not a terrier

by Background-Pipe-2255 1 week ago

That's in the same for a dog

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Food? My dog is very protective

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah? That often is one of the only reasons farms have them.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

My dog gets upset if I use her hairbrush to comb my hair. It's a human hairbrush but she knows it's hers.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Cats have a concert of sin, but they know that they can break rules when nobody watches.

by Grantshanahan 1 week ago

Yeah, mine does this too. If she is annoyed, she hits my hand with her paw without claws and looks directly into my eyes. Like "I can hurt you, you know. If I used my claws I definitely would damage you, human".

by Grantshanahan 1 week ago

They are amazing.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

And yet they don't understand that they are property.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If I put a leash on you and chain you to my basement, you'll certainly feel like my property even if no other humans socially agree with it

by jmarquardt 1 week ago

Please leave me out of your weird sex fantasies.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'm kinda here for it

by Lueilwitzperry 1 week ago

No.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

So if I say you are my property then that's just true?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you buy or adopt him, yeah.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I think it's more a sense of territory rather than property.

by Anonymous 1 week ago