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LittleGirlHeart -> why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/7/2013 8:43:49 PM)

And then best of all(sarcasm) bring the dead thing inside and leave it on the floor by your bed?



stef -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/7/2013 8:48:58 PM)

It's trying to get more protein into your diet.



LittleGirlHeart -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/7/2013 9:01:30 PM)

I laughed really hard at that, th for the good laugh.



DaddySatyr -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/7/2013 9:01:49 PM)

There are two big "families" of hunters on this orb; cats and dogs.

Unlike cats who generally eat what they kill (and kill an animal roughly the size of what they're going to eat), dogs will kill anything they think they might eat at a later day and bury the surplus.



Peace and comfort,



Michael



LittleGirlHeart -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/7/2013 9:08:58 PM)

If she had intended to burry it, why put it on my floor?



RottenJohnny -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/7/2013 9:22:52 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: LittleGirlHeart

If she had intended to burry it, why put it on my floor?

She recognizes you as the leader. She's sharing.



LittleGirlHeart -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/7/2013 9:31:55 PM)

How sweet of her, lol.



myotherself -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/7/2013 10:24:19 PM)

...because it thinks you are the better cook.

Tomorrow it will bring you a pile of fresh vegetables, some herbs and a stock cube.



AthenaSurrenders -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/7/2013 10:47:42 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: RottenJohnny

quote:

ORIGINAL: LittleGirlHeart

If she had intended to burry it, why put it on my floor?

She recognizes you as the leader. She's sharing.


I think this is it. You get to eat first. Enjoy!



LittleGirlHeart -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/7/2013 11:50:01 PM)

Would she be offended by a polite thank you, but no thanks?[&:]



FrostedFlake -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/8/2013 12:10:21 AM)

It's sport.

What do you do with the trophy?

That's right.



WinsomeDefiance -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/8/2013 12:17:23 AM)

I once had a cat, well it wasn't even MY cat but my former Master and his wife's cat, who was always bringing me dead animals and laying them on my bed or on the floor by my bed.

She even brought me a live chipmunk that immediately upon ceasing to play dead ran right up my leg. When I stopped screaming and jumping around on my bed, and everyone finally quit laughing at me, it took us about an hour to catch the poor critter and let it loose back outside.

I can't answer your question as to why animals bring us dead offerings, but I feel your pain. I really do.



jlf1961 -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/8/2013 12:25:17 AM)

Dogs follow a pack mentality, if you have properly trained your dog or dogs, they consider you the pack leader. Therefore you eat first. At my house, when princess brings me a gift like this, I praise her, then properly dispose of the dead animal.

At least they dont play with their prey like cats do before they kill it.



needlesandpins -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/8/2013 12:57:50 AM)

it's nonsense that cats kill only to eat. they kill because it's fun. my patterdale bitch is the same. she goes nuts if there is even the smell of anything around that she knows she can kill.

it's also not really due to a leadership thing either as I've had various neighbourhood cats leave me dead things. I don't pet them, or encourage them in any way as i'm allergic to them. sometimes they are just proud of what they've done.

needles



needlesandpins -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/8/2013 1:00:51 AM)

oh and another thing on leadership; we feed our cats and dogs so they have no need to eat what they kill. however, if that wasn't the case i'd be betting that a lot of the 'gifts' would stop. not in all cases granted, but i'd say in the vast majority of cases.

needles



CynthiaWVirginia -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/8/2013 2:06:37 AM)

I had a mole problem in my yard and didn't want to put out poisons. My male cats ignored the critters. Several times I almost broke an ankle and screeched and fussed and my cats came over to investigate the offending holes...soon afterward, dead moles started showing up on my porch or were dropped at my feet. (Smart cats, and they obviously love me.)

A few years ago some giant slugs were eating up stuff in my garden and I threw a hissy. Started plucking up three to four inch long slugs and squishing them on the walkway (at first we were pouring salt on them, watching them die slowly). By the following year, huge slugs started showing up on my porch whenever Cyrano went outside, all ready for me or my son to squish. Evidently, chewing up a slug to kill it for me is a hard limit. [:D]



epiphiny43 -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/8/2013 2:30:22 AM)

Most cats are BORED and kill for fun and giggles. It's hard wired into them and eating safely at home doesn't satisfy the instinct to chase and disassemble small animals. Dogs are also hard wired to chase anything with legs or wings that 'vibrate' at the right speed. Why bird dogs chase car wheels! The signal in their retina activates their chase motivations. Killing efficiently is not instinctive however, mother cats teach killing and stalking. The many videos of large African cats teaching youngsters who start off barely able to catch their own tail illustrate this.
Cats Don't kill or eat all prey, but they sure maim most. It takes remarkably little damage to kill a bird. Besides quite fragile bones and general structure, they have less blood than mammals so they weigh less for flight and so bleed out easily. Or go into shock and lose body temperature. Most cat claws produce septic cuts easily as well. Few birds survive actual contact with any wounding, their energy needs with usually 104ºF body temps mean any convalescence is fatal. The flock doesn't feed stationary members other than nest sitting partners. Current estimates are domestic and feral cats kill over 4 BILLION birds a year. A substantial portion of bird mortality overall. And likely a deciding fraction for too many threatened species living with the small bags of poison and evil favored by witches. We've eliminated the larger predators that should be keeping cat numbers a lot lower and the birds are paying for it. Try explaining this to a 'cat colony' person?



Edwynn -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/8/2013 6:04:06 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: LittleGirlHeart

And then best of all(sarcasm) bring the dead thing inside and leave it on the floor by your bed?


"Bringing home the bacon," in human parlance, is the attempt, there.

They so much want you to be proud of their effort in your regard, so the bedside is a place that they have learned from experience to be of importance to you, and so that's where they "bring it."

What surprises me a bit more is that cats do the same thing, even they are not brought up with the same 'pack' instinct. My last cat (actually, my dad's cat) was the sweetest thing in the world, to any human, she wasn't picky. But if the people petting her, as she cooed and purred, had any idea that she had just eaten a live mouse completely, other than the head (personally witnessed, several occasions), just ten minutes earlier, I don't know if they would have been so 'pet friendly' complacent about it.

One of my acquaintances had the most wonderful dog I ever met. He needed no training, he just did whatever any human bid him to do. On his own time, that dog dredged up whatever critter carcass, or bovine or deer or bear skull he could fit his chompers around, and came back to you waving it up and down in his jaws, the assumption being that he was sharing his great glee with his other friends.

I hated dogs when I was a child. The divot in my face from the experience there might have had something to do with that.

But that dog taught me what fun was about, even if I couldn't understand his exact interpretation of it. Best of all, he wasn't chomping on MY leg, as what happened several times when I was 7-8 yrs. old. (no leash laws back in the day, so dogs easily ran in packs, and did much destruction and terrorization thereby). I eventually came to understand that dogs like chomping on something, and that the majority of dog owners are idiots, even with leash laws and poop scooping ordinances.

I like dogs and cats, now.

I'm not saying that I understand them.

But I understand that they are who they are.





ShaharThorne -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/8/2013 6:10:21 AM)

My brother's dogs would bring home bones from a neighbor's yard. That neighbor slaughters cattle and who knows what else in his yard and Polar and Freckles would bring the bones home to gnaw on.



LafayetteLady -> RE: why do dogs kill wild things, but yet not eat it? (6/8/2013 3:34:28 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: LittleGirlHeart

Would she be offended by a polite thank you, but no thanks?[&:]


Very much so. You should take it and eat it immediately so you don't hurt her feelings.



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