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Originally Posted by Dowly
Eating non-moving carcasses and drinking from equally non-moving (hopefully)source of water doesn't exactly say much about how this or that animal could survive in the wild.  |
One of our adopters lost an adult Shih Tzu just before the winter of 2011. She lost the dog about three days after adopting it so the dog had no chance of establishing any bond with the woman nor the location so this little dog was not only lost but disoriented.
Then the ice storms came. We were out looking for this dog for weeks. I really had no hope for it. A little domesticated dog like this outside in bitterly cold weather. Not looking good
The dog was found, about a month after being lost, a few miles from its home, near a farm. This little cute dog was surviving by hunting chickens which were not only bigger but out weighed the dog.
Wow. Instincts dormant for hundreds of generations, still worked when needed.
It was a happy ending to a very sad story. The dog is with another owner and is doing well. The new owner was the lady who was originally fostering it for our rescue and is very experienced with dogs. She told me she had to undergo a little re-domestication training with the Shih Tzu to get it back to being a pet and not a hunter.
Dogs, gots to love em.
