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For the last year I have noticed someone's mongrel pet dog lurking at their mailbox to attack every vehicle that passes.
Stupid dog finally "caught" one, he apparently sunk his teeth into an 18-wheeler and got mangled. But that didn't stop him. He recouped for a few weeks and is at it again, sans one leg and half a face.

What makes dogs do that?
 
Territorial imperative?
 
I believe some dogs are akin to some people.
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

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Because they can?

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Tinster said:
I believe some dogs are akin to some people.
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

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sounds like my black lab....

but to her defense we rescued her from the local shelter. Lady who worked there seized her from her neighbors who had been abusing her and feeding nothing but table scraps her first year - there was no evidence that they had ever even bought a bag of dog food.

Absolutely sweet as can be but just dumb as a post...
 
I once had a Lab. We clipped him to young. As a watch dog, he would bark while running away. But the early clipping had it's up side, he never learned to lift his leg. The other down side was his propensity to want to sit in your lap, yeah all 110 pounds of him. A great dog though.
 
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The other down side was his propensity to want to sit in your lap, yeah all 110 pounds of him. A great dog though.
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heh... I had a German Shepard in my youth that liked to lay across my chest whenever I was laying on the floor watching TV.

He was the smartest dog I ever had... I use to take him to the beach with me and let him run loose. While coming back one day, I noticed he had a limp. When we stopped he started biting at the bottom of his paw. So, I checked his paws and sure enough he had a sand spur. I plucked it out for him and he was happy and grateful as only a dog can be. About a week later, I picked up a sand spur in the bottom of one of my feet. We stopped and the most amazing thing I'd ever seen a dog do happened. He returned the favor by plucking the sand spur out of my foot for me.

This same dog also taught himself to "lift the seat" when ever he wanted a drink of water. This didn't bother me too much, but his favorite thing to do after getting a drink was to come to me and dribble that water on me as he proceeded to lay across me.

Oh yeah, he also taught himself to open sliding doors that are completely shut...

I could go on for days about that dog... best dang dog I ever had.
 
Dogs recognize cars as being a threat to human beings.

They try to herd them all into parking lots or bark/chase them away.

Cats are also a threat because they know too much.
 
They want to catch it and bring it back to their owner.
 
My chocolate lab is a sweet-natured, affable, friendly, loveable idiot! He has to be close to 120lbs, an enormous example. Not clipped, but definitely not aggressive.....

I love the German Shepherds for their intelligence. I'd like one of those!
 
We also have a Chocolate Lab (120lbs) that is as "goofy" /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazyeyes.gif as H-E-double hockey sticks.
We call him Barney Bear because he has a stuffed bear he loves on and sleeps with. He tosses it around the house and entertains himself by throwing it up in the air and catching it.
He also plays ball. I throw it, he catches it, I throw it, he catches it, I throw it, he catches it and on and on and on. I have never had a dog before that was this smart and still so goofy all at the same time.
People who don't have dogs really don't know what they are missing in the world, do they?
 
my black lab isn't bright enough to play ball. I say "where's your ball!!!??? Where's your ball!!!???" and she runs around like a lunatic past all the balls. So I grab one. She comes running and bounces all over the place ready to go. So I throw it....

blink..... blink.... blink....

she just sits there and looks at me like "Um... whaddooahhhhdoooo???"

and then she lays down on her back and twitches until I scratch her tummy.

She's a real mensa candidate....

Someone could break into our house, tie us all up at gunpoint, and she would lay down on her back and twitch until he scratches her tummy.
 
My first dog was a black Chow-chow named Bogart. He hated everyone but me (Which was great for a single girl living on her own in not to great apartments with a low paying job while in school full-time.)
Anyway, he loved COWS. Bogart went almost everywhere with me and if we drove anywhere and he saw cows out the car window he would go crazy. Once he even jumped out of the back of my truck (going about 30 mph) and took off across a field to chase the cows. I have no idea where this came from and I always wondered what a 50lb black,ball of fur was going to do once he actually caught one.
 
Ours don't chase cars - they are too busy trying to climb into them to get a ride. They are obsessed.

Talking of lapdogs, I'm typing this on the laptop, which is on the back of the male dog - Bouncer - who's lying in my lap. Luckily he's the littler one at a mere 60lbs. He's sulking because my wife is playing with the baby rather than him...
 
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