Are My Dogs Attracted to Danger? Yes.

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Hi, I’m Allison! Read my introduction to larn much astir maine and my 3 mixed-breed dogs from Thailand, Jelly, Lorraina, and Manic.

Many humans are attracted to information due to the fact that it is thrilling. Amusement parks person made billions by creating rides that marque your bosom plunge beneath your ample intestine. People are ever looking for the latest gory fearfulness movie that volition marque them ne'er privation to slumber with the lights disconnected again. People scuba dive with sharks, leap retired of planes, and contention motorbikes arsenic if trying to interruption the dependable barrier. We bash it for the thrill, the adrenaline kick, to consciousness alive.

What astir dogs? Are dogs attracted to information connected the aforesaid level arsenic humans? My dogs surely are! I privation I knew why…

Fear No Predator

Living successful Thailand made the Jelly, Lorraina, and Manic alert of different creatures. And, wow, the creatures they would encounter! We had the run-of-the-mill chickens, frogs, rats, and crushed squirrels. But determination were immoderate animals I truly wished they would avoid.

Snakes

Have you ever seen documentaries astir orphaned orangutans learning to fearfulness snakes from their quality caregivers? If you haven’t, I would cheque it retired due to the fact that it is adorable. Knowing what is unsafe is an important accomplishment for them because, without their mothers, they would not cognize that snakes adjacent danger.

So, wherefore didn’t my dogs prime up connected this cognition based connected my oregon my husband’s reactions to snakes? Couldn’t they person conscionable near them alone? Nope! Anytime they find a snake, chaos ensues. Rat snakes are the astir communal ones, and portion they are not venomous, they volition wound erstwhile provoked. Naturally, our dogs went aft them similar it was a game. Thankfully, nary of them got bitten. I privation I could accidental the aforesaid for the snakes.

But rat snakes were not the lone serpents they encountered. One day, a 7-foot-long Burmese python came slithering onto our balcony. Again, it was not a venomous snake, but pythons are known for giving life-ending “hugs.” And, of course, Manic lunged astatine it. Don’t worry; we grabbed him and locked him successful the location until the snake was relocated.

Monitor Lizards

In my humble opinion, show lizards are intimidating. They tin tally up to 12 miles per hour, which is overmuch faster than the mean human. Monitor lizards tin besides ascent trees and swim. These reptiles are equipped with razor-sharp claws and a process they whip erstwhile threatened.

All of these traits mean thing to my dogs. These creatures are child’s play to the trio! They spell aft show lizards, adjacent erstwhile they get tail-whipped by them.

Miscellaneous

Besides snakes and show lizards, the dogs person fearlessly pursued scorpions, porcupines, and adjacent a millipede. Okay, truthful millipedes are not dangerous, but it was a spot entertaining to spot Manic creation astir the lone millipede, barking his caput off.

Whether they crawl, swim, oregon person fur oregon scales, Jelly, Lorraina, and Manic considered them just game. Sigh.

Do They Do It for the Rush?

I person antecedently written astir my dogs attacking, and sadly killing, tiny mammals successful the USA: squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, and groundhogs. But what was the constituent of going aft unsafe animals? Are they doing it to support maine and my husband? Do they recognize the information that immoderate animals airs to people?

Lorraina and Manic patiently waiting for their chipmunk to travel down

Perhaps I americium anthropomorphizing my dogs excessively much. I bash that rather often—assuming my dogs deliberation astir information successful the aforesaid ways I do.

Maybe they bash it for the rush? People bash risky things each the clip for that reason. Do dogs bask adrenaline similar radical do? I deliberation that sometimes they do. When my dogs instrumentality their heads retired the car window, I similar to deliberation they get a unreserved from feeling the upwind blowing done their fur.

This is the benignant of “danger” I tin grip them experiencing. But snakes? Ugh.

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