The push to relocate dogs is proving to be an administrative and ethical absurdity, placing impossible demands on municipal bodies and thrusting dangerous, undue duties upon over-burdened professionals, like teachers.
The push to relocate dogs is proving to be an administrative and ethical absurdity, placing impossible demands on municipal bodies and thrusting dangerous, undue duties upon over-burdened professionals, like teachers.
L’histoire de Chaita révèle que la vie sociale des chiens est très complexe et nuancée. La domination, si elle existe, n’est qu’un aspect mineur de leur vie sociale.
What does respectful disagreement look like in dogs. Do we give our dogs opportunity to learn this? We focus so much on teaching dogs how to play, that we forget that healthy social relationships are also about knowing how to decline play and how and when to walk away from it.
At first, she was called the “site dog”, who then became Sita or Syta and then the S softened to a Ch, just as our hearts softened for her. Thus she became Chaita and this is her story.
First, there was Elvis. He was Cheeru’s first friend in this place and I suspect he is still her favourite. Or perhaps Dude is her favourite. Do dogs have “favourites”?
This is the start of a series. An ethnography, if you will, of Cheeru and the free-living dogs around my farm – Chaita, Dude, Iti, Yaya, Elvis, Rita and Biscuit.
Our observation on free ranging dogs tell us that that dogs don’t have to taught how to cope with fear and do they need external motivation to do so. How and why do dogs cope with fear.
Don’t all individuals deserve a certain autonomy over their own body. Dogs are often touched without consent and if that resulted in the dog expressing displeasure, the dog is the one that almost always pays the price
Mass destruction programs are just not known to work. The Madras Corporation’s unsuccessful catch and kill program that ran for over a 100 years was replaced after a Blue Cross study revealed ineffectiveness of the program
The push to relocate dogs is proving to be an administrative and ethical absurdity, placing impossible demands on municipal bodies and thrusting dangerous, undue duties upon over-burdened professionals, like teachers.
Chaita’s story reveals that social lives of dogs is very complex and nuanced. Dominance, if at all, is only a minor aspect of their social lives.
Do our “captive or pet dogs” have the opportunity to have such relationships with fear? I often find that the bar is a little high high for them.
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