For the dog lovers on the forum.

ChroniC · 6 Jan 2010 at 22:59

I've noticed through the cat picture thread that there are a lot of dog lovers on the forum (moaning that dogs are better), so I thought this would be more appropriate to general discussion than the TV forum.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pssgh/Horizon_20092010_The_Secret_Life_of_the_Dog/

Seeing as Horizon is quite possible the most entertaining thing on TV at the moment, I was very interested to see what they could bring up about dogs that wasn't just about training and keeping them as pet, and I was pleasantly surprised there was some amazing facts about intelligence, domestication, genetics and curing human disease.

A highly recommended watch for anyone really.
Enjoy.

theukmoog · 7 Jan 2010 at 00:25

Thanks, very interesting viewing.

ticklemebougy · 7 Jan 2010 at 00:55

i managed to see a bit of it. the parts with the wolves and foxes which was very interesting. I never would have thought that tameness was breeded, i thought it would be from how they were raised. Ill be sure to catch the rest of it on iplayer tomorrow night.

ChroniC · 7 Jan 2010 at 01:09

theukmoog said:
Thanks, very interesting viewing.

No problem.

ticklemebougy said:
i managed to see a bit of it. the parts with the wolves and foxes which was very interesting. I never would have thought that tameness was bred, I thought it would be from how they were raised. Ill be sure to catch the rest of it on iplayer tomorrow night.

I know, I thought that was very interesting as to me it raised the possibility that this could be done to anything. So you can tame any animal through breeding. So we could have pet leopards.

I don't want to give away to many spoilers about what it said, but I think i've seen almost all horizon episodes (its my favourite show) and this ranks up there.

Davies_M · 7 Jan 2010 at 01:54

I loved that, ammo for the next Dog vs Cat debates I think!

Dave85 · 7 Jan 2010 at 02:09

woah that was awesome, we can understand barks and they can understand our emotion. I want a dog badly

digipeep · 7 Jan 2010 at 02:17

The cat lovers will find some excuse for abusing us dog lovers as usual.

Mucky_Pup · 7 Jan 2010 at 02:31

Can't stand dogs, far too needy and sloppy for my liking, at least my cats recinded into the lazy ******* mode soon into adolecance, and don't hector me.

Energize · 7 Jan 2010 at 07:17

digipeep said:
The cat lovers will find some excuse for abusing us dog lovers as usual.

Mucky_Pup said:
Can't stand dogs, far too needy and sloppy for my liking, at least my cats recinded into the lazy ******* mode soon into adolecance, and don't hector me.

Great work jinxing the thread there digipeep.

Explicit · 7 Jan 2010 at 07:46

Mucky_Pup

Can't stand dogs, far too needy and sloppy for my liking, at least my cats recinded into the lazy ******* mode soon into adolecance, and don't hector me.

Oh the irony!

DJDaz · 7 Jan 2010 at 09:08

i love cats and dogs, why do people seem to have to pick sides?

"why can't we all just get along?"

Ciphon · 7 Jan 2010 at 09:11

I will be watching this later, thanks for reminding me!

I meant to watch it when it was on TV.

King85 · 7 Jan 2010 at 09:28

Sounds very interesting, cheers!

sigma · 7 Jan 2010 at 09:33

I want a dog.