Dogs Serve People, But People Serve Cats.

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We Breed Dogs To Be More Social Than The Wolf. There Is Very Interesting Research That Has Been Done With A Wolf And A Domestic Dog. If You Have A Tamed Wolf And You Have Him Sit In Front Of The Experimenter Or Stand In Front Of His Master And His Two Dishes, One To The Right, One To The Left – So That The Dog Or Wolf See The Food Put In The Left Hand Dish But The Owner Points To The Right – The Domesticated Will Go Where Owner Points, Whereas The The Wolf Goes Right Where He Saw The Meat Thing Put. In Other Words, In A Dog Social Cue From A Master Can Override Where He Saw The Being Placed.

A Real Common Problem With A Lot Of Animals Is That Guys Are Bad, Hate To Say It, But They Will Tune Into Some Big Feature Like The Glasses, Maybe The Beard, Baseball Hats, You Know Some Unique Feature Like That. And They'll Generalize Like, "okay! All People With Baseball Hats Or Black Rimmed Glasses Are Bad."

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Curiosity Is The Other Side Of Caution.