I seem to recall reading here of a case where a dog (I think an
Irish Setter) who'd been exhibiting behavioral difficulties (e.g.
getting "stuck" in corners) was found to be missing most of its
brain tissue. The upshot, though, was that these problems were
not serious enough to consider the dog to be living all that
abnormal a life....

Does this ring any bells with anyone? I need it for a discussion
I'm having on another newsgroup.

Thanks!

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"Mark Shaw" wrote in message:

Does this ring any bells with anyone? I need it for a discussion
I'm having on another newsgroup.

Yup. I don't trust my memory much, but what I recall is that the dog
basically had little more than a brain stem, and the owners thought that the
dog's behavior was perfectly normal; just that it was not a smart dog.
Might have been posted by Melanie, in which case, it won't be archived.

Suja

Mark Shaw said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

Does this ring any bells with anyone? I need it for a
discussion I'm having on another newsgroup.

Melanie posted about an Irish Setter. If you search for the
subject "Golden lab" in late March 2002, you'll find a post
Sarah made in reply to Melanie. I have a Usenet search engine
which ignores X-no-archive if you provide it with message-id
from the references header, but Melanie's post is still nowhere
to be found.

There's another thread started by Sarah - search for "brainless
Irish Setter" April 22, 2003.

dejablues posted about a Pug with no brain. Unfortunately, the
link was made with makeashorterlink and no longer works.
Message-ID:

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In article ,
Rocky wrote:
but Melanie's post is still nowhere
to be found.

I'll ask.
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(Melinda Shore) said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

Rocky wrote:
but Melanie's post is still nowhere to be found.

I'll ask.

Reading the threads, it seems Melanie was posting about
something she'd heard, not read, so had no cites. Mark might
have better luck tracing down the Pug story.

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In article ,
Rocky wrote:
Reading the threads, it seems Melanie was posting about
something she'd heard, not read, so had no cites. Mark might
have better luck tracing down the Pug story.

This is what she answered:
There isn't a publication that I know of. It's something
Karen Overall told me about personally. The dog was an
Irish Setter (yes, open to so many jokes) and I don't
think it behaved normally. It was three years old and
the couple who owned it brought it in because it would
do things like walk into a corner and be unable to get
out. They did a scan and it basically had a brain stem.
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Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

Thanks for the responses - I've got more than enough to go on
now.

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