What breed?

I thought the whole idea was illegal already? What's this about "ethical" dog fights?


Besides I don't think the ethics will be entirely based on how they're kept.

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Lol... You tried. Sorry about that. I'll do well to truncate subsequent posts sir.

meobizy:
The article is too long. I got tired at 80%.

Being an alpha dog is defined as being the highest ranking male or female animal in a social group. An alpha dog can usually be recognized by the submissive behavior of the other animals in the group towards it. In other words, the alpha gets the most sex, the best food, and the best place to sleep.

Since dogs are pack animals and have instinctively been organized in social groups to survive and thrive, the alpha role is arguably part of the equation. Some dog breeders believe that such hierarchized configuration is obvious when involved in dog breeding and owning several dogs under the same roof.

But let’s start by understanding the historical context of what being an alpha male means.


HISTORICAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS
Between the 1950’s up until very recently, it was commonly accepted that wolves had a social hierarchy comprised of family and non-family members, with an alpha as the leader of the pack. People thought that he would come to his position by force, being the most “dominant”. It was thought that the rest of the pack members, while usually subordinate, would occasionally attempt to challenge the alpha male by force in order to take over his position. Sometimes, supposedly, a challenger wolf would oust the old alpha and become the new leader through virtue of being the strongest and most aggressive.

By extension, we thought that dogs also had similarly structured packs and would challenge each other for dominance. However, the current scientific consensus is that this was a mistaken belief. There are plenty of species of animal that do have social hierarchies where the strongest or most aggressive male rises to the top, such as gorillas and chimpanzees, but canids like wolves and dogs generally don’t operate like this.

Most wolf packs consist of family groups with the parents in a leadership role and the young offspring as the dependents. Their hierarchies are a lot more rigid with the parents firmly in control. There are clear rules in place that are enforced by the parents, but they rarely have to use physical force to achieve this. Rather than challenging the parents for dominance of the pack, the subordinate offspring will reach maturity at 3-4 years of age and leave to establish their own families.

In the past we thought that dogs descended from modern wolves and although they are very closely related, scientists now believe that domesticated dogs and wolves share a common ancestor.

In 1950, a morphological study called On a Dog Skull of Stone Age in Japan and its Ancestral Form, examined Japanese prehistoric dogs in comparison to modern wolves and concluded that “the living wolf kinds have nothing to do with the ancestral forms of the prehistoric dog races.” It’s now known that there are large psychological and physiological differences between dogs and wolves, and we can no longer use wolves as a reliable reference to understand dog behavior.

So what does all this mean for our pet dogs, the beloved canis familiaris??
Dominance and Submission

Well, for a start it means that their social structures are very different from what was originally thought. In dog packs there is no constant alpha, and there is no one single dog who gets all the sex. There are definitely dogs who command more respect than others, but they don’t generally do it by being the most aggressive or intimidating, they get their respect by being implacable and confident.

An aggressive dog is an aberration, and rather than kowtow to it, most dogs will know it’s unbalanced and will actively avoid it as much as possible. The difference between a dog who is respected and one who is feared is obvious in the attitudes of the dogs around it. Now I’m not denying the existence of behavior that appears dominant, I’m only saying that the explanation for such behavior is more than the dog simply wanting to be the alpha or “in charge”.

We've seen spoiled dogs who are the boss of their household, with subordinate humans – but the dog is never happy with this arrangement and it did not get to that position by consciously trying to take over. Rather, it exhibited antisocial behavior which its owners didn’t deal with properly, through lack of knowledge or laziness. They’ll continue to indulge its bad behavior because it’s easier than addressing it and potentially creating conflict. It might have barked to receive its food, and been rewarded for this, creating a barking problem; but that doesn’t mean it barks because it wants to dominate. It might be possessive and guard its toys and its food, but this doesn’t mean it thinks it’s the alpha, it just means that it’s displaying an inappropriate survival instinct.

Training and Behavioral Problems

Nowadays behaviorists and scientists no longer explain all of a dog’s behavioral problems away as issues with dominance. We recognize that their impulses and motivations are more complex and can be caused by insecurity, anxiety, stress, or lack of experience to name a few. We also understand that we can’t solve those behavioral problems just by being more dominant.

To give an example, the “alpha roll” is a favourite manoeuvre among some owners. It involves grabbing an over-excited or aggressive dog and forcefully holding it on its back while it thrashes and struggles, eventually calming down and lying still. While this is an imitation of what adult dogs will sometimes do to particularly annoying puppies, it’s not something a human should ever do to a dog.

The main complaint I have with methods like these is that you shouldn’t be reducing yourself to the level of physical competition with a dog. As highly intelligent hominids, humans are smart enough to be able to outwit the simpler-minded dog without ever resorting to force. When you struggle to hold a dog on its back, or forcefully pull on its leash while it drags you along, or hit it, or try to intimidate it; rather than telling your dog you are in control, you’re actually telling it that you’re on the same level and encouraging it to compete with you as an adversary.

We don’t want our relationship with our dogs to be adversarial; we want it to be cooperative. As such, any action we take against problematic behavior in our dogs has to keep that spirit of cooperation intact.

Punishment

It’s not always wrong to punish a dog; but when you do punish, you should always make sure that you’re doing it to methodically eliminate disobedience, not just to feed this nebulous notion of being the pack leader. Punishment should never be used unless the dog fully understands what it’s doing wrong and how it can avoid the punishment by doing the right thing.

Generally this means that it’s only appropriate to use punishment in response to disobedience, and not as a way of stopping problem behavior caused by negative feelings the dog is having. This means that you absolutely shouldn’t punish a dog for reacting aggressively to another dog, or for guarding its food, or whatever other problematic behaviors it has. Instead, using psychological methods to remedy behaviors like these is always more effective and always healthier for the dog’s brain in the long run.

Source: Lazhar

Oh come on nah. At least a little update to wet our appetite. Pictures please

How much research was put into this?

Thanks boss.

Hi guys, was going through some informative sites on dogs, especially on breeding and training (ethical breeding, if you please ). So I decided to share this here

The menopause is commonly defined as the cessation of a female’s reproductive cycle (estrus for dogs, monthly for women) and the end of the childbearing period of that female’s life. Unlike humans, dogs do not experience a menopause. A female dog’s fertility will decrease with age, even sharply once she grows senior, but pregnancy is still a possibility even if it carries more risks.

In humans, the woman entering menopause will never be able to go through pregnancy again. Her ovaries have stopped producing the estrogen and progesterone hormones, resulting in the end of her menstrual cycle from then on.

Female Dogs Don't Have a Menopause

In canines, the female is technically fertile throughout her entire adult and senior life but that fertility will decrease. The dog breeder may need more attempts to get a successful pregnancy. Each pregnancy may be more difficult to go through for the bitch, and her whelps are at a higher risk of being stillborn.

The only way a female dog is unable to enter her estrus cycle and get pregnant is once she’s been through an oophorectomy — removal of her ovaries — or an hysterectomy — spay procedure.

What Happens To Older Female Dogs, Then?

A female dog will start being sexually fertile from her first or second year of age, depending on her size and breed. From then on, a female dog will be in heat roughly twice a year, sometimes three or four times for smaller breeds. Pregnancy can occur at each of these cycles if she is successfully mated with a male during the estrus phase of her heat.
When female dogs grow older, and reach an age comparable to menopausal women, they can still become pregnant. However, their estrus cycles become less frequent and can be as rare as once a year. Abnormal heat cycles are also very common with senior dogs and include silent and split cycles.

Overall, an old female dog’s heat cycles generally yield a very low rate of successful and healthy pregnancies.

When Is a Female Dog Too Old To Be Bred?

Because female dogs do not experience menopause, they hold their ability to bear a litter of puppies until they die. However, the older a female dog gets, the least fertile she becomes, and the thinner the chances of a healthy pregnancy are. Unfortunately, there is no age and like most sexuality-related points with dogs, they are very much based on the breed and the size of the bitch.

The prime time for breeding a female dog, when fertility is at its peak, is between 18 months and 7 years old. On average, from seven years old, the bitch starts going through more abnormal and infrequent heat cycles which decreases her fertility as the female ages.

In Summary

If you got lazy and didn’t feel like reading the article, here are the takeaway points about female dogs and menopause:
•Female dogs don’t experience menopause
•Female dogs do however see their fertility decrease from 6 or 7 years of age
•Female dogs don’t have a menstrual cycle but an estrous cycle called heat
•Female dogs may face difficult and unsuccessful pregnancies when older

Note: This isn't from my head, sourced it from a breeder j subscribed to.

Prodeegee, Knyte, Chucky234, smileysmiles (hope I got that right), oluomoadebayo, you guys seem to be some of NL's finest canine enthusiasts, wah do you think?
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I do
I realise if we keep waiting for someone to give prestige to that breed, no one would. I'll figure a way to do it. To think of it, there are actually breeders who specialize in they breed abroad and when I researched, they sell for as much as $1,200. Imagine? It's up to us to apply some responsible breeding approaches even if it involves importing purebred ones. However, it's not a cause for someone interested in profit

Oh wow. Is that the same Ubba that Albertk9 trained?

Bam!

Well, we cant just decide to grow out a mastiff and claim it. Not every country has a prominent dog. However, you have a point because mostly the breed we call Bingo has been neglected and severely hated on. Nigerians have a thing for ignoring indigenous commodities and feasting on imports.
I know you don't want to hear this but the 'bingo' is actually ours sir. We could have spent years developing something beautiful out of it buh nope, we spent years completely diluting it and now we have 'Basenjis' that bark... (imagine). It's never too late tho, buh it would take some serious dedication and commitment to pull this off.

Just my opinion tho, I'm only a learner

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Good morning bobbysax, please how many times did you mate her during her heat cycle, and how did you transport her to Ghana?

Okay, y'all have to stop saying 100% purebred! I'm not disputing the purity of your pooch sir, please don't get me wrong. Buh you don't find 100% purebreeds anywhere. Even top scoring show champions end up around 95 or thereabouts at best. I believe exaggeration shouldn't be a point of sales for your market.
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Hi, please don't mind me asking this (I'm very touchy about what I feed my dogs). Can I know the combo of feeding or at least the way the fowls were raised sir?
Thank you

Pic of parents please?