Dog Behaviorist Reacts: What Bolt gets right about dog behavior and issues in Hollywood

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This film made me a furry

When I was younger I didn't understand that he actually didn't have powers lol I thought he did

My rescue 12yo black cat I fostered until she got dental problems and the rescue centre had issues getting appointments for their volunteer vet, plus I had fostered her for months with NO ONE applying or asking about her to adopt (she was 6-7y at the time not sure), and I chose to adopt her because I was already dreading letting her go, and ai had been working on earning her trust and getting her to trust other people gradually as well. Also I wanted to ensure she got the best vet care possible. The rescue centre first said there were no one asking for her because she was a black cat, but when I was considering adopting her they suddenly said it was just a myth and that black cats was very popular.

Ik this is a post about Bolt, a dog, but putting yourself in danger or seemingly like it to any animal that cares about you is bad. My husband and I have 2 cats, each cat has “their person” our black cat loves him and our striped cat loves me. (Obviously they love us both but you get it) and one day my husband came home and was upset, he started crying and when I was comforting him the black cat thought I was the reason he was crying and bit me. Obviously he thought I was hurting his papa and went to protect him so I wasn’t too offended. But it can happen with any animal.

I really felt that section about feral dogs. Our family dog was a feral rescue who had trauma with dogs. She would be super chill with us but would never act like a pet dog. No interes in toys, no interactions with the other dogs. Just running and napping with her humans.

Cat parent here, they are just as smart as dogs if not smarter, but they are harder to train and get to listen to you, simply because dogs were kind of made over hundreds of years to have pleasing their humans as their top focus due to how the humans selectively bred for more obedience and other desirable traits. Cats on the other hand, they weren't selectively bred for hundreds of years like that since the purpose cats served for humans was just them doing what they do and hunting pests.

Humans didn't really feel the need to change anything because they already did their job just by being cats and doing what cats do. The reason cats seem less trainable than dogs though actually doesn't have to do with intelligence and more has to do with that cats don't "exist to please humans", they weren't bred to do that, they weren't really bred at all for specific personality traits for the most part and if any selective breeding was done by humans with cats it more often seemed focused on appearance rather than on specific behaviors.

That said cats aren't less smart than dogs, they just don't have that same desire to please like dogs do because humans simply didn't have a reason to try and make them have that, they were already naturally good at the job humans liked keeping them around for. This lack of innate desire to please, is why they seem less trainable, it's not that they don't understand and is likely more that they just don't care to do what you tell them unless they feel like it. They're existence and amount of human intervention concerning their genetics followed a different flow than the ancestors of our dogs today would of.

My cats understand when I tell them to get down, come up, sit, and lay down. With them actually following my requests immediately 9 out of 10 times from what I noticed, BUT again it's only if they feel like it, they'll selectively just not obey if they don't want to at the moment. One of my cats can actually do tricks like stand on his hind legs, give paw, and roll over on command which I taught him, because he seems to genuinely enjoy doing them. Which once again comes back to if they feel like it, since they aren't hardwired to have a strong desire to follow orders like dogs were. My one cat that I taught to do tricks people often teach their dogs, just happened to feel like listening when asked to do a trick more than the others

If you read this much, thanks for reading my blurb about my kitties X'D My kitties are dark colored with the one who likes doing tricks being a void kitty (all black)

The take away of the point I was bringing up here is honestly, one isn't smarter than the other, cats just run different neurological hardware than dogs in a sense likely because humans didn't selectively breed them for specific traits and behaviors as much as humans did dogs, I'd say. Try the same games with a timber wolf and you'd probably get a similar level of responsiveness one would expect from a cat from them despite being the cousin in a species sense of your dog since again wolves of today also weren't bred over hundreds of years by humans for specific traits that favored obedience that the humans wanted

as you were talking of feral dogs and how many do not have an interest in toys it resonated with me:
my late dog was adopted and never really got to be a puppy as a pup- so she never learned fetch or enjoyed playing with toys. but she looooved playing with us still: running, crouching, doing little hops of excitement... and then of course to just go for walks and lay down in our company.

And Garfield

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Would extinct wild dogs get along with todays domestic and wild dogs we have today? And what kind of dog closest is Clifford?

14:36 I borned and grew in İstanbul, city of cats. I am a big fan of this little angels. When i was 12th grade, i was in the studying club at school, in School library, at after hours. There was a yellow eyed black cat that oftenly came in the library at that time, Wandering around, snuggling and playing. Most of the girl students, including me adored it and oftenly did pet and hangout with it at 30 minute breaks between two sessions. It was oftenly comming to my feet while i was reading Sherlock Holmes books from library at break. I even named the cat "Musti", a short form of the name "Mustafa"😂. He was also good at hunting. At 11th grade, I saw Musti literally catching a rock dove succsessfully. It was so funny😂

The separation anxiety was caused by Bolt's upbringing to believe that his owner is in constant danger and that he needs to protect her with the powers that aren't real. If they let Bolt believe it's all an act and it's only a job he satisfies, like a Border collie with herding animals, he probably wouldn't have had such bad separation anxiety.

The memories are flowing back

YESSS ty so many people feed birds bread and it's terrible 😭 have also seen people try to feed baby birds cow milk, and hot dog??? which, just rotted in their crop, don't do that.

Black cats aren't bad luck. If I was allowed a pet in my apartment, I would go to my local shelter and pick one.

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That's our good boy

21:55 my dog gets excited to go in the car but once it starts driving he hides