can dogs commit suicide???? - Page 5

I had several gsd out of Zu who  jumped from the highest mountain ledge in Kentucky at one of the lakes...Not because they wanted to commit suicide, becasue they were not able to know by reason of looking and what can happen if you jump that distance what would happen to you....fortunately it was into a big lake of water.

My son sent both of them home by airline the next week.. He called Bali    CAMPBASE BALI because she did it several times and not into water. So she had to stay at base camp in a locked kennel while they hiked.
 This is one of the cliffs that Bali jumped off of . If you were not looking at all times she just decided to jump...guess she wanted below the short way...any human would know BY REASON you cannot jump that distance without breaking a leg or hitting wrong snd either death or severe injury.

I think I can address the 'head in water' death.....an animal bleeding out will have a tremendous thirst, it's the body's attempt to replace lost fluids, & the animal reaches the state of collapse while trying to sate it's thirst....a fever or dehydration would produce the same sort of responce. Just my guess......jackie harris

Also, I was taught that most children attain the ability to reason at about the age of 6 years old.....I also read somewhere that most dogs have the IQ of a 2 or 3 year old child. GSDs, however, test out at about a 6 year old level IQ.

 

Hmmmmmmm.....? I think they have a lot more going on in their heads than we give them credit for....well, some of them, anyway!  LOL, jackie harris

My DDR girl, Panja, wanted to play with the dogs in the backyard, and lept off the deck, which is located on the second floor. I don't think she gave it any more thought than "hey, it's Cezar and Queke! Yay!"

She went "thud" but didn't go "splat."

My other female, Wynn, got on the roof once through a open window, and seemed to be contemplating a three-story jump to get down. She didn't, fortunately.

I sometimes wonder if dog depth perception isn't orientated to calculate vertical distance downward. The brain is orientated to horizontal distance, and sometimes I think "down" just doesn't fully compute.

On a side note with kids, I'm not sure at what age kids begin to comprehend "reason."

A human child learns cause and effect and problem solving early enough, and starts to be able to weigh consequences around 6yrs; but the decision-making part of the brain doesn't fully mature until late-teens to early-20s for females, and early- to mid-20s for males. That's not saying a younger child of either gender can't make good decisions, I'm just making a biological observation. But definately not before 6yrs *lol* My kids are perfectly capable of making up their minds... but have utterly no common sense yet, and generally decide to do particularly unreasonable things *hehe* Ah children...

I wish they were as easy to train a puppy ;-)