Re: Do dogs……? / Can dogs………?

hi,

gosh – this probably depends mainly on 2 things

1 – upbringing experience
and
2 – how domesticated the breed is (or to put it another way how raw the neotony is / how ‘wild’ that neotony for that breed was.

dogs do still live “in the wild” tho it depends on your definition.

Bonnie lived “in the wild” for some period of her young life in the context that she had to feed herself and protect herself from harm.  we call it “stray” nowadays as dogs are expected to have a home but i suspect she would have had a long and happy life in the wild – she’s a thinker, can protect herself if she needs to to a reasonable extent and plenty able to catch dinner.

however, there are still dogs born in the wild that arent people tame – i think some dingo’s still are and i am sure places where stray dogs arent regularly collected up – maybe canada ?? probably have wild dogs.

breeds like Akita and Rhodesian Ridgeback’s (just picking 2 that i know there are others) have a rawer neotony than many breeds which have been domesticated for longer.

Claire x