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 Anonymous1 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-6981 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 Anonymous1 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_List1 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-Brain1 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 Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah the concept of my dog's property is basically everything they can see. I need to get a fence eventually.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Like yesterday dude, you'd be devastated if you lost them.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Dogs have a concept of territory not property.
by Anonymous1 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 jmarquardt1 week ago
He's a lab, not a terrier
by Background-Pipe-22551 week ago
That's in the same for a dog
by Anonymous1 week ago
Food? My dog is very protective
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah? That often is one of the only reasons farms have them.
by Anonymous1 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 Anonymous1 week ago
Cats have a concert of sin, but they know that they can break rules when nobody watches.
by Grantshanahan1 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 Grantshanahan1 week ago
They are amazing.
by Anonymous1 week ago
And yet they don't understand that they are property.
by Anonymous1 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 jmarquardt1 week ago
Please leave me out of your weird sex fantasies.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I'm kinda here for it
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by Anonymous1 week ago
So if I say you are my property then that's just true?
by Anonymous1 week ago
If you buy or adopt him, yeah.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I think it's more a sense of territory rather than property.
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