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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 292964" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Our dog, the first one we had who was always a bit jealous of the others - she was a natural mother who mothered every animal on the farm. When the goats or sheep gave birth, that dog would be there to help clean up the babies. She would be licking them all over and you would see "mother" in her. Her daughter was also a good mother, one of the best. But there was rivalry between them.</p><p></p><p>I remember one day, the daughter had a pup (the mother was past bearing puppies). I was sitting with my sister on the park bench. The daughter dog and her puppy were up on the park bench with us. Mother dog (grandmother really) came up to us as we were holding the puppy, she sat and begged (very cute) so we held the puppy for her to sniff. She sniffed alright, but grabbed the pup by the scruff and took off with it (dognapping). Her daughrer, mother of the pup, was down off the park bench and after her instantly. Thee older dog glanced over her shoulder, saw her daughter after her and dropped the pup and kept going. Her daughter stopped at her pup and checked it over (it was unhurt).</p><p></p><p>The interesting thing - in this case the older dog would not have hurt the pup, I'm sure. she wanted to be a mother again, I think that was it. And the pup was completely unharmed although its mother was a bit anxious for a while and growled every time the older dog came anywhere near. Normally she was a very tolerant mother and even tolerant of other dogs around her pups.</p><p></p><p>The difference here - the baby was injured. And the dog took the baby out into the woods. Why? If the dog was wanting to play with ther baby (thinking it wasa doll) then why take it away? If the dog had found a doll, would it have taken it away? Taking the baby away is like the cockatoo that grabs a buttered biscuit (a special treat) and flies to a more distant tree with it so other cockatoos won't see it has something special and fight over it.</p><p>So in this case - did the dog take the baby to the woods because it knew it was doing the wrong thing?</p><p></p><p>Back to our dogs again - our older mother dog would steal food and bury it. It was an insecuirty thing although she knew it was forbidden. We'd catch her in the act of burying the contents of her food dish and her reaction was classic guilty conscience plus "Blast, I got caught. How can I sneak more food later on?" It got so we would watch for her behaviour to change to skuling furtiveness and would know she was up to her old tricks again.</p><p>So was this dog doing something similar? "I've found something interesting, I strongly suspect I'm not allowed to do this so I'll take it to the woods so I can take my time with it, so nobody will take my new toy away from me."</p><p></p><p>I do strongly suspect that the dog knew it was doing the wrong ting, hendce it went to the woods. </p><p></p><p>As for how it got the door open etc - was the door closed at all? It IS summer over there, it is possible the doors/windows were open for a breeze.</p><p></p><p>However, if that dog meant serious harm from the word go, that baby would have been dead before it left the crib.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 292964, member: 1991"] Our dog, the first one we had who was always a bit jealous of the others - she was a natural mother who mothered every animal on the farm. When the goats or sheep gave birth, that dog would be there to help clean up the babies. She would be licking them all over and you would see "mother" in her. Her daughter was also a good mother, one of the best. But there was rivalry between them. I remember one day, the daughter had a pup (the mother was past bearing puppies). I was sitting with my sister on the park bench. The daughter dog and her puppy were up on the park bench with us. Mother dog (grandmother really) came up to us as we were holding the puppy, she sat and begged (very cute) so we held the puppy for her to sniff. She sniffed alright, but grabbed the pup by the scruff and took off with it (dognapping). Her daughrer, mother of the pup, was down off the park bench and after her instantly. Thee older dog glanced over her shoulder, saw her daughter after her and dropped the pup and kept going. Her daughter stopped at her pup and checked it over (it was unhurt). The interesting thing - in this case the older dog would not have hurt the pup, I'm sure. she wanted to be a mother again, I think that was it. And the pup was completely unharmed although its mother was a bit anxious for a while and growled every time the older dog came anywhere near. Normally she was a very tolerant mother and even tolerant of other dogs around her pups. The difference here - the baby was injured. And the dog took the baby out into the woods. Why? If the dog was wanting to play with ther baby (thinking it wasa doll) then why take it away? If the dog had found a doll, would it have taken it away? Taking the baby away is like the cockatoo that grabs a buttered biscuit (a special treat) and flies to a more distant tree with it so other cockatoos won't see it has something special and fight over it. So in this case - did the dog take the baby to the woods because it knew it was doing the wrong thing? Back to our dogs again - our older mother dog would steal food and bury it. It was an insecuirty thing although she knew it was forbidden. We'd catch her in the act of burying the contents of her food dish and her reaction was classic guilty conscience plus "Blast, I got caught. How can I sneak more food later on?" It got so we would watch for her behaviour to change to skuling furtiveness and would know she was up to her old tricks again. So was this dog doing something similar? "I've found something interesting, I strongly suspect I'm not allowed to do this so I'll take it to the woods so I can take my time with it, so nobody will take my new toy away from me." I do strongly suspect that the dog knew it was doing the wrong ting, hendce it went to the woods. As for how it got the door open etc - was the door closed at all? It IS summer over there, it is possible the doors/windows were open for a breeze. However, if that dog meant serious harm from the word go, that baby would have been dead before it left the crib. Marg [/QUOTE]
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