feel good story; Dog Saves Baby Deer From Drowning

>>1062284
As someone who's been around dogs all my life and seen them interact with pretty much every animal that exists in my area, I can say with utmost confidence that this dog was not trying to save that deer at all. It is struggling with its instinct to kill the deer and eat it. It is confused as what it should do and is allowed to do because of how the owner treats the dog.

>>1062289
This. Most dog owners think that their pets are little humans and completely misinterpret why they do the things that they do.

>>1062289

Around 35sec in the black dog spooks the yellow one who grabs the fawn and fucks off into to woods.
Only reason it would have done that is if it saw the deer as food and didn't want to share.

So why did the dog "save" the deer in the first place?

Because the owner pointed at it and called the dog's name, likely in the same way they do when playing fetch.

>>1062289
>>1062548
>>1062558
you are possibly the most buzzkill people ive even read on 4chan

>>1062576
Take it to /an/, fuckboi.

>>1062576
Well, it really isn't that bad. Normally, in the wild, the "dog" would kill and eat the deer. However, the dog isn't in the wild and has been raised and trained by humans to be more "empathetic" towards other creatures. This change in behavior is a good thing for the owner, because it makes the owner feel good. So long as the owner praises the dog for doing what it did and didn't do, the dog will learn that its behavior is a good thing.

Thus, what you are seeing is a bit of a triumph over basic instincts, for the dog, which in human social circles is a good thing. That's really all the good you can get from an event like this.

You need to remember, in nature there's only a few "laws" for encounters between animals,

Can I eat it?
Will it eat me?
Can I fuck it?

That's the general mental process everything goes through as the driving force for life. Training animals to not go through that process is a Herculean endeavor and very rarely/if ever successful.

>>1062616
Damn this nigga is stupid

>>1062635
I take it you don't know much about animals.

>>1062576
Ugh why can't people here be bluepilled like on reddit hate you guys ughhh

>>1062841
Shit ive been going about this all backwards

The dog might as well have killed the deer. It's as good as dead anyway. No mother, stink of dog on it, exhausted and stressed beyond belief. Definitely died shortly after being "rescued".