Little dogs mainly get spoiled. Bigger dogs usually less so. They want
> > to keep you company but they usually stay out of the way.
I think that happens is that when a little dog causes trouble, somebody will
>k him up and save him from the trouble he created. When a small dog angers a
> dog the owner is going to pick the small dog up and so the small dog learns
>can get away with anything.
Probably true, and people are less likely to get angry at smaller dogs,
sort of thinking of them as helpless little things compared to bigger dogs.
People who have never owned cats usually don't know cats. I've had a
> > few and some were the expected elite self absorbed tyoe tht do what
> > they want but others have been very affectionate and do what you
> > tell them to like a dog so you never know, but I don't think that
> > is something that can be taught. It's the cat's basic personality.
I used to have cats and my experience is they regard you as food expending ma
>nes at best. Many never get to trust you and many you can't trust. I keep hea
>g stories about cats that are more affectionate but I have never witnessed th
I found that certain breeds are far worse than others. Siamese cats
are notorious for not liking people, other than maybe one member in
a family. Gotten at the same time and raised the same I had a Blue
Burmese cat and a 'pure' Tabby.. People think of any cat with some
tiger stripes as a Tabby, but there are bred lines of them with
very specific markings mostly in Briton I think.
Anyways, the Burmese was stuck up and didn't want much to do with
people and ran off one day, probably to someone who fed her better
where the other one loved being around people, cried to be picked
up and wanted to lay on your lap if you were reading or watching TV
and would come when called, even if it didn't really want to..
The thing with horses is that they often show their affection in brutal ways
> are therefore taught not to do it. If you observe horses in nature you will
>ice they often scratch each other with their teeth, for example. Most people
>'t want their horses to bite them all over, so they train them out of it. Hor
> will also breath into your face and expect you to breath into theirs unless
>y learn that is not how humans say "hello".
Yes, although we lived in the country, we only had a couple of acres
and at times two horses, always one, but they were my sister's and
not of much interest to me so I wouldn't have seen the details that
you would see being with them so much..
My favourite mare was bred for slaughter and lived all her childhood
>with her herd.
I don't think we do that in Canada/North America - breed horses for
slaughter. They are mostly either for pleasure riding or racing. If
you mean slaughter for eating, few, if any, here would eat horse meat.
I would show every week around there and pet this little filly but she
>definitively didn't grow with much human attention. Now she lives in my
>barn with another mare and you can tell she enjoys human company greatly
>anyway.
It's good that you are looking after her.. B)
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