My dog is a chihuahua and trust me there isn’t a mean bone in her body lol
One time my husband and I was play fighting and she got on my lap like she was going to defend me but instead of growling like other dogs she curled up into a ball showing her belly and cried like she was getting hurt. It was almost like she was crying please don’t hurt mommy it was so sad and sweet
my uncle's chihauhau is such a sweet heart! i only met her once but she took a liking to me instantly. The whole time we were over there waiting on his wife to get there so we could go to dinner the cute little thing was sitting in my lap watching TV with us.
Sadly my sweet dog suffers from separation anxiety and she does this thing that is just so sweet yet so sad.
She get where her anxiety is bad and she will get her favorite toy (used to be a stuffed monkey with a squeaker in it but now is a tiny stuffed lion with a squeaker in it) and she holds it ever so gently in her mouth and whimpers.
It’s so sad we cuddle her and she just whimpers. We give her love and pets and treats but she still whimpers. It just breaks my heart.
It’s stuff like that that makes me look at people like WTF are you talking about when they say the breed are mean.
I met a few that seemed mean but they just didn’t know me yet. The minute they got to know me They were like little babies lol
if you look at that fox experiment done in russia you can see that there are visual physical traits associated with aggression and domestication.
they found that as the generations went on, the foxes who were breed from friendly foxes slowly started having floppier ears and spots and the friendly behavior as well as aggressive and fearful behaviors all seemed to be passed on to the children without being "taught". What i find interesting about it is the fact that as the animals got more domesticated they got more visual traits that people generally find cute.
a question that has to be asked is that, do we find it cute specifically because animals that have such traits tend to be more likely to be friendly?
and while yes, aggression CAN be a learned trait, its also a genetic one. The inverse is also true. Friendlyness can also be a learned trait and that learning can happen early. A dog that is treated nicely by humans from birth is far more likely to be treat humans nicely later in life, but being from a genetic line that is generally friendly makes it more likely too. There will always be situations of a dog treated perfectly by humans from birth still having issues with only trusting the specific humans it grew up with and not trusting any others.
One time my husband and I was play fighting and she got on my lap like she was going to defend me but instead of growling like other dogs she curled up into a ball showing her belly and cried like she was getting hurt. It was almost like she was crying please don’t hurt mommy it was so sad and sweet
She get where her anxiety is bad and she will get her favorite toy (used to be a stuffed monkey with a squeaker in it but now is a tiny stuffed lion with a squeaker in it) and she holds it ever so gently in her mouth and whimpers.
It’s so sad we cuddle her and she just whimpers. We give her love and pets and treats but she still whimpers. It just breaks my heart.
It’s stuff like that that makes me look at people like WTF are you talking about when they say the breed are mean.
I met a few that seemed mean but they just didn’t know me yet. The minute they got to know me They were like little babies lol
they found that as the generations went on, the foxes who were breed from friendly foxes slowly started having floppier ears and spots and the friendly behavior as well as aggressive and fearful behaviors all seemed to be passed on to the children without being "taught". What i find interesting about it is the fact that as the animals got more domesticated they got more visual traits that people generally find cute.
a question that has to be asked is that, do we find it cute specifically because animals that have such traits tend to be more likely to be friendly?