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On the other hand, if you fake throwing a stick, a dog may run many times before it becomes suspicious.

culopatin 5y ago
That is intentional action. Unintentional I think would be stepping on their paws by accident vs intentionally stomping on their paws while looking at them.
timbit42 5y ago
My papillon becomes suspicious after the first fake throw.
jjtheblunt 5y ago
Our non-breed (as in pre-breeds like a dingo) dog is like you get the stick.
- spacedcowboy 5y ago
  Similarly, my Newfie will look at the stick flying past, then look at me with that expression that big dogs can do… “why did you just do that, human ?”, then sit down, preferably in the snow.
- quickthrower2 5y ago
  Interesting, what else can you say about the non-breed heritage. What is it most closely related to in terms of dog? Or it is closer to wolf? (Serious question)
  - jjtheblunt 5y ago
    That's an open question but I can't now find the citation that the whole presumption that dogs come from wolves isn't necessarily right, that they may all be cousins. She does show a chihuahua great grandparent, but otherwise is native central american. people mistake her for a yellow lab since they gravitate towards certainty and in so doing ignore entirely non lab features in coloring and geometry, and behavior. Curiously the Dingos and the dogs you might see being brought back from the Middle East theaters of war to europe/americas look super similar. My conjecture is that this is the natural dog, that you could recreate things like a yellow lab with many generations of selective breeding, that Huskies and Malamutes likely are more wolf related. But it's only a conjecture. Look at EmbarkVet.com for one source of canine dna documentation, I'd suggest.
edgyquant 5y ago
Depends on the dog. I was able to do that to my dog a few times when she was young but now days if she doesn't see or hear it she doesn't move.

That is intentional action. Unintentional I think would be stepping on their paws by accident vs intentionally stomping on their paws while looking at them.

timbit42 5y ago

My papillon becomes suspicious after the first fake throw.

jjtheblunt 5y ago

Our non-breed (as in pre-breeds like a dingo) dog is like you get the stick.

spacedcowboy 5y ago
Similarly, my Newfie will look at the stick flying past, then look at me with that expression that big dogs can do… “why did you just do that, human ?”, then sit down, preferably in the snow.
quickthrower2 5y ago
Interesting, what else can you say about the non-breed heritage. What is it most closely related to in terms of dog? Or it is closer to wolf? (Serious question)
- jjtheblunt 5y ago
  That's an open question but I can't now find the citation that the whole presumption that dogs come from wolves isn't necessarily right, that they may all be cousins. She does show a chihuahua great grandparent, but otherwise is native central american. people mistake her for a yellow lab since they gravitate towards certainty and in so doing ignore entirely non lab features in coloring and geometry, and behavior. Curiously the Dingos and the dogs you might see being brought back from the Middle East theaters of war to europe/americas look super similar. My conjecture is that this is the natural dog, that you could recreate things like a yellow lab with many generations of selective breeding, that Huskies and Malamutes likely are more wolf related. But it's only a conjecture. Look at EmbarkVet.com for one source of canine dna documentation, I'd suggest.

edgyquant 5y ago

Depends on the dog. I was able to do that to my dog a few times when she was young but now days if she doesn't see or hear it she doesn't move.