Do you think......

[Teresa Ford]

I think dogs can tell by smelling another dogs urine mark certain things like: the sex, health, diet, general age (pup, young, prime breeding age, or old)how big or small. What man made breed ? I doubt it. I think Yorkies know how a Yorkie looks and how they sound. Perhaps like we know, that lady is Asian, the handsome boy playing the tuba is black, the lady sitting next to me at the doctors, is probably of Irish back ground (she speaks with a accent), And the new priest is from Italy and so on. I think that dogs can get a lot of information by smell, but I don't think all Yorkies smell alike.

[concretegurl]

Our neighbors had a NAID wolf cross even without seeing it the neighborhood dogs would all act very different learily smelling the air and tgeir yard when walking by.

[OwnedByJezebel]

Dogs do identify specific people and other dogs by their smell, and don't really rely so much on eyesight.

In one of Cesar Milan's training books, he mentioned that every morning he took his "pack" on a long exercise in the hills. They would run, walk, and occasionally stop to rest. When they were moving, they were moving as a pack, all mixed up but moving together in unison. When he would stop to let them rest, they were separate from each other according to breed. The pit bulls would all go sit together, the GSD's would go off and sit together, the Rotties, etc. I have to believe they know "their kind" somehow, and it is probably something that they smell.

[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by concretegurl

Well obviously.

However I'd rather see a dog febarked than taken by animal control and pts.

There was an entire VS special in how some dogs cannot be trained to not be barkers...like my neighbors puggles they bark bark bark bark bark batk bark bark bark bark (see my point) all day long as soon as my neighbor gets home rthey are quiet.

I bribed our nasty neighbor and took the blame twice for her dogs one more citation and she's done court hearing...

Debarking is not pleasant for a dog. If a person knows there dogs could be taken if they don't start training and doing something about there dogs and they don't, then are they really people who should have dogs? If I had to do something with Callie for fear of losing her I would and I would never take the chance of her getting taking away and if that meant hours and hours of training I would because in the end I love my dog and couldn't live with out her.