Your opinions?

[dainerra]

natrualfed, I agree. My dog's mother didn't recognize him when she saw him a few months after he came here. He was just another dog to her. Some of the worst fights in dogs are mother/daughter.

 

[Peaches Lee]

natrualfed, I agree. My dog's mother didn't recognize him when she saw him a few months after he came here. He was just another dog to her. Some of the worst fights in dogs are mother/daughter.

Agreed!

 

[Peaches Lee]

the risks of child birth has faced mothers from the start of time

I'm not sure I follow the connection here....

 

[jak2002003]

When the puppies go to their new homes, sometimes the mom may, through instinct look briefly for the puppy, but very shortly she has forgotten about that one, and gone on to take care of the remaining puppies.

People keep up with their kids throughout their lives. Dogs do not. Once they leave the litter, the puppies soon forget about mom and mom likewise. What the mother dog does at the moment of having the puppies through about 8 to 10 weeks or so is natural instinct. Thats really all.

If they were like humans, mom and dad would keep in touch with all their puppies their whole lives.

In nature dogs (wolves) would 'keep up with their kids' throughout their lives. They would grow up in the pack and work together to hunt and defend their home range.

Your dog is 'forgetting' about the puppies simply as they are no longer there and her instincts are telling her they are either dead, or gone for some other reason. How can the dog in the human world keep contact with its puppies? They can not use the internet of mobile phone. This situation of removing the puppies is human made, not nature, so its not a good example of the true way that a dog would choose to live.

 

[dainerra]

not true. In the wild, males and females WILL leave the pack to start packs of their own. Once a dog has left the pack, they are no longer recognized as family. The mother doesn't look at them and think "this is my son" She thinks "this is a member of the pack" and once they leave she thinks "this is NOT a member of the pack"
Once the pup is weaned (in dogs) it's pretty common for the mother to show little interest in them. At least, no more interest than she shows to any other dog living in the house. Why? Because once they are weaned they aren't her "babies"! They are just dogs who live in the same house.

 

[naturalfeddogs]

In nature dogs (wolves) would 'keep up with their kids' throughout their lives. They would grow up in the pack and work together to hunt and defend their home range.

Your dog is 'forgetting' about the puppies simply as they are no longer there and her instincts are telling her they are either dead, or gone for some other reason. How can the dog in the human world keep contact with its puppies? They can not use the internet of mobile phone. This situation of removing the puppies is human made, not nature, so its not a good example of the true way that a dog would choose to live.

If a pup is brought back years later after being gone, they don't remember each other.

We have a mother and son who we kept from a litter years ago. They have been together all their lives, and have to be separated as well. They hate each other. Explain that.

 

[naturalfeddogs]

You have to remember, these are canines, not humans. They don't have the same ways and emotions as us humans. A WHOLE different species altogether.

 

[Squawkbox]

Close enough. It really is up for interpretation.

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How I take that phrase, "Love is a human emotion" is that OUR concept of love is human. Animals can feel love, and pain, and sadness, but do they feel it the same way and for the same reasons we do? Very debatable.

I too have a mother and son that she treats no different than any other dog. Even though he has grown up with her and has never been separated, he doesn't remember that she is his mother and vice versa.