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Posted on 03/04/2005 12:24:18 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran
From: The Australian A SPATE of what appear to be canine suicides has animal psychologists in Scotland baffled.
At least five dogs have thrown themselves off the historic bridge at Overtoun House in Dunbarton, Scotland, in the past six months. The bridge, which spans a 13m drop into a stream running underneath, is fast becoming known as Rover's Leap because of the lemming-like approach it seems to inspire in apparently well-adjusted family pets.
"Dogs do not commit suicide. They have a strong fight-or-flight response," Doreen Graham, of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, told The Glasgow Herald.
"The incidents at the bridge are of very great concern to us because we would like to understand why they are happening."
It is an inauspicious start for the new owners of Overtoun House, built in 1863 by a local chemicals tycoon, who are renovating the property as a Christian "hope and healing" centre.
Joyce Stewart, a leading animal behaviourist and consultant to the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said she had heard of situations in which dogs that knew they were dying went into hiding, but had never heard of a dog committing suicide.
She said the coincidence was "spooky" and called for an investigation of the deaths. "There must be some rational explanation for it," she said.
Maybe the dogs were gay.
dog suicide?
The quickest way down?
OK is this the result of naked women wrestling with the dogs or not. I still cannot get the mental image out of my head of the drunken woman naked dog wrestling.
They should set up an camera to record behavior. I bet some cat is leading them out there, then pushing them off.
They were liberal dogs?
Why would dogs jump off the bridge?
To get to the other side
Jesus allowed the 'demon-fallen-angel'....possessed pigs.....do the pigs in.
Maybe they're not jumping - they might be falling in, instead.
If it is in a low-lying area, carbon dioxide/monoxide could be collecting. Just a thought...
You mean there is no leash law?
Did anyone actually see dogs jumping off the bridge or are they just finding the bodies below?
I still cannot get the mental image out of my head of the drunken woman naked dog wrestling.
I too and hot and bothered by that idea.
That's what you were getting at, right?
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
Can't run foxes anymore, nothing to live for.
???
Can Hitchcock's Birds be far behind??
Well, now we know what "Blue" is gonna do after Katherine Earle broke his heart.
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