It doesn't feel right asking about abstractions in the thread about
Kelly's loss.
Has anyone experience or observations of packs of hunting dogs? I'm a
fan of Rita Mae Brown's 'Mrs. Murphy' mysteries. (Just the right amount
of anthropomorphism for me. But, I gave up her foxhunting series
because I keep thinking she's concealing things. (She did describe a dog
being peppered with ratshot for straying from the pack. She then
entered the dogs mind where it realized that it had deserved it. Uh,
huh. That's where I stopped reading her.) Is it possible for kennelled
dogs to have a really full life? How close is their relationship to a
person they see mostly for training? Is this a case, as in Perry's
observation, when pack structure is firmer than their relationship to an
owner?
Melinda, may I move your comment over here?
My experience has been that dogs that
live together will form a relationship,
even if it's a bad one.
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Melinda Shore
Mine exhibit only tolerance. Could it be because I interact with each
of them too much, so they don't need each other?