Re: Reaoning power of animals
[Re: PAskinner]
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One of our dogs is so "smart" she thinks I'm a different person everytime I smell different. Likes me one minute and hates me when I come back in the door the next. I really would like to know what goes on in her brain. Maybe she's just scizophrentic? Sounds like an ex-girlfriend! I think animals can reason, much like humans. Some better than others. Surroundings can also play a huge factor. My grandfathers collie would go out every evening w/o being told to get the cattle for milking. She knew when there was a problem and would come and get someone right off. She was also a great babysitter with us kids and always got between us and any equipment that my be operating in the yard. My grandfather was too busy on the farm to do much training with her but yet she knew what her job was and what had to be done. I see too many examples of animals reasoning not to believe they can't. Maybe not to our degree but they can still reason.
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Re: Reaoning power of animals
[Re: nate]
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LMBO Border collies are smarter than most of my friends- don't ever put anything past them LOL
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Re: Reaoning power of animals
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It happened and he remembered, that isn’t the same as “That car is coming, if I chase that cat he might run and get killed by that car.”
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Re: Reaoning power of animals
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09/15/20 11:14 AM
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It happened and he remembered, that isn’t the same as “That car is coming, if I chase that cat he might run and get killed by that car.” Did you miss the part about how his daughter went through a "pile" of cats? We might hang the jury you and I b/c I say that eventually at some point, it was premeditated!
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Reaoning power of animals
[Re: Rat Masterson]
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09/15/20 11:21 AM
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With threads like this next thing you know someones going to allude to the fact that animals and people are the same. Bingo Rat. The teaching that given enough time, all amoebas would turn into humans, has sunk its tentacles to our culture's core. We're just a bunch of helter-skelter atoms that landed in unison in a wonderful arrangement, some luckier than others perhaps, because the probability that the odds this occurred... 1 and then another number with 40 zeros after it (or so scientists tell us) seems pretty believable to most Westerns. That's too big a number for me, so I plan to ask the next coyote that "out-smarts" me. Maybe he or she will leave me a note how it all works. Animal spirits are powerful in Texas. Ask Leftlane
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Re: Reaoning power of animals
[Re: nate]
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Bears also eat plywood,gas cans and skidoo seats. They must be thinking - if he cant get gas and has no comfortable seat he wont be able to run that snowmachine.
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Re: Reaoning power of animals
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09/15/20 01:57 PM
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I don't know if it would be classified as reasoning or not but any of you guys who have hunted bear have probably seen how a bear will discover how you access a bait site and will often check that trail before committing to a bait. I've had them climb the tree my stand was in and tear the seat off. They're very intelligent animals. Or just bored.
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Re: Reaoning power of animals
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Had a walker coon hound that the first time I put him on a chain after we moved to the new place immediately did the run around the stake but and ended up snubbed right up to the post, well he stopped barking, sat down and stared at that post for several minutes then got up and walked the other way around to unwind himself and he never did it again, if that’s not reasoning tell me what is it, and that’s just one thing
Can animals reason I would say yes, not on the order of humans but it’s there more so in some then in others, and in my opinion stronger in predators then herbivores
�Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.� ― Robert A. Heinlein
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Re: Reaoning power of animals
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With threads like this next thing you know someones going to allude to the fact that animals and people are the same. Done deal there's groups all over that think that. But I'm guessing everyone on here has there mind made up.
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Re: Reaoning power of animals
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09/15/20 02:59 PM
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Had a walker coon hound that the first time I put him on a chain after we moved to the new place immediately did the run around the stake but and ended up snubbed right up to the post, well he stopped barking, sat down and stared at that post for several minutes then got up and walked the other way around to unwind himself and he never did it again, if that’s not reasoning tell me what is it, and that’s just one thing
Can animals reason I would say yes, not on the order of humans but it’s there more so in some then in others, and in my opinion stronger in predators then herbivores Nice try. If he was wound up tight there wasn’t anywhere else to go.
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