Inbreeding is becoming more of a concern for weredogs. Inbreeding is bad. Crossbreeding is good. Humans figured this out a long time ago. The larger or more robust a gene pool the better for that species. More genes, or alleles, in a species genome means more traits and tools for survival.
But people continue to inbreed dogs. Dog breeders are the worst inbreeders. It is criminal.
I have known of only 1 werebulldog in the past half-century. This is because of their physical limitations. He is just over 100 years old. He is furious with the Bulldog Club of American (BCA). He says they are destroying the very breed which they are supposed to be propagating and protecting.
Many people also love to engage in intellectual inbreeding, which has the same effect - logical and intellectual sterilization and defects. It has always been amazing to me how humans, capable of such staggering intellectual and artistic heights, can discount facts and believe what they want to believe. I don't understand it. Can anyone explain it to me?
In the woods, hunting, or on the battlefield, fighting, if you ignore the facts and see what you want to see, you're dead.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Weekend Alert
All hell broke loose this weekend. An alert was sent out to all KC packs based on reports of impending neo attacks on both weredogs. werewolves and people.
The alerts did not allow for much finesse or planning. Many weredogs just had to take off, from wherever they were at the time. I operated yesterday with a weredog who is currently a police dog with the KCPD. He had to jump out of his police car, while his handler was doing a routine stop, and take off. The cops are using helicopters to search for him. He shakes his head when he talks about it. What a mess it is going to be going back.
Caitlyn and the weregirls are becoming tight friends. They know what she is, have known. They can smell what she is. It took them some time to discern her scent. I don't allow myself to get too close to them. I don't want them to discern my scent. Not yet.
The dad is thick with PTSD. I can smell it on him. I can see it in the way he moves, the way he walks, the way he clenches his hands.
Nearly all combat vets return with some degree of PTSD. Dogs too. Weredogs too. Some are effected more than others. If it is a problem and how much of a problem depends on a lot of factors - if the soldier has family and support, if he or she turns to booze or drugs, if they do PT, exercise regularly, if they have something religious or spiritual to sustain them, something to heal their heart, mind and soul. Some need counseling. Some don't.
The Army and rest of the military is more treating and recognizing PTSD in military dogs. Dogs are being diagnosed with PTSD, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and treated and retired based on their PTSD. It was not too long ago that military dogs were simply "destroyed" for being defective when they exhibited signs of stress and strain, symptoms now known to be PTSD.
The fact that more people, in particular the military, are recognizing PTSD in dogs is good. It requires that people recognize the emotional life of dogs.
Dogs having emotions has long been trigger issue for a lot of people, people who claim that only mankind has emotions, and to say that dogs and other animals have emotions is to unbalance the order of the world. But I am told that the opposite is true to any person who has ever looked into the eyes of a dog.
The alerts did not allow for much finesse or planning. Many weredogs just had to take off, from wherever they were at the time. I operated yesterday with a weredog who is currently a police dog with the KCPD. He had to jump out of his police car, while his handler was doing a routine stop, and take off. The cops are using helicopters to search for him. He shakes his head when he talks about it. What a mess it is going to be going back.
Caitlyn and the weregirls are becoming tight friends. They know what she is, have known. They can smell what she is. It took them some time to discern her scent. I don't allow myself to get too close to them. I don't want them to discern my scent. Not yet.
The dad is thick with PTSD. I can smell it on him. I can see it in the way he moves, the way he walks, the way he clenches his hands.
Nearly all combat vets return with some degree of PTSD. Dogs too. Weredogs too. Some are effected more than others. If it is a problem and how much of a problem depends on a lot of factors - if the soldier has family and support, if he or she turns to booze or drugs, if they do PT, exercise regularly, if they have something religious or spiritual to sustain them, something to heal their heart, mind and soul. Some need counseling. Some don't.
The Army and rest of the military is more treating and recognizing PTSD in military dogs. Dogs are being diagnosed with PTSD, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and treated and retired based on their PTSD. It was not too long ago that military dogs were simply "destroyed" for being defective when they exhibited signs of stress and strain, symptoms now known to be PTSD.
The fact that more people, in particular the military, are recognizing PTSD in dogs is good. It requires that people recognize the emotional life of dogs.
Dogs having emotions has long been trigger issue for a lot of people, people who claim that only mankind has emotions, and to say that dogs and other animals have emotions is to unbalance the order of the world. But I am told that the opposite is true to any person who has ever looked into the eyes of a dog.
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