Chihuahua Meme

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chihuahua, Dogs

Me and chihuahua mix Meme at the Yavapai Humane Society. I was handling her for adoption photos. Photos by Regina S.

Snake Hunting

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Dogs, labrador retriever

Black lab Shady has a new hobby – snake hunting. We have a population of garter snakes that live in the ground cover by our garage. Shady hears them moving around and wants to get them. A lab is a hunting dog, she has a high prey drive. I hope she doesn’t hurt any snakes. They eat bugs and are welcome in the yard.

Dogs and wolves have a sense of fairness

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dog behavior, Dogs

link: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40205808

Another scientific study showing that dogs and people have some thought processes in common.

The sense of fair play is an important human trait, but new research suggests that it’s a key behaviour for dogs and wolves as well.

In tests, if one animal was given a more substantial reward when performing a task, the other one downed tools completely.

It had been felt that this aversion to unfairness was something that dogs had learned from humans.

But the tests with wolves suggest that this predates domestication of dogs.

Night Guard

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Dogs, night photography

Black lab Shady in the backyard at night, lit by a patio light. She is looking towards a neighbor’s yard where 4 dogs live. She does not like 2 of the 4.

A Dog in a Tree

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Dogs

It’s supposed to be a cat in a tree, right? Not this time.

SALEM, Ky. (AP) — Is that a bird in the tree? A cat? No, it’s Rocco the dog, who had to be rescued by firefighters when the small dachshund got stuck inside a tree trunk.

link: https://www.dcourier.com/news/2017/jun/03/cat-tree-no-its-dog-_-who-had-be-rescued/