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.
They had their hearts broken by the lady mentioned here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1356047/posts
But what is the deal with the suicidal dogs?
(Wile E. Coyote Super-genius)
How about some drunken and/or irate human just pitches them off the bridge at night?
Maybe a scumbag is throwing them off the bridge, if this is the case it will move to humans later.
Why would dogs jump off the bridge?
To get to the other side!
Note, that would be the one with half the chickens on it.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, I thought that was the whole thing, I meant those questions to just go out there into outer space, not to you specifically.
Sounds like a meanie to doing that to the dogs.
Just dogs evolving, they keep jumping for enough million years one of them will fly.
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