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Posted by Hoosier on 04-10-2015 12:42 PM:

Can dogs be Bi-Polar ?

We all know people who are Bi-Polar. Do you have or have you ever had a dog that you thought might be Bi-Polar?

You know the one that acts one way today and tomorrow is a completely different dog...then a few days later is back to "normal"?

Is this even possible? It would certainly explain a lot in certain dogs. LOL

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Posted by RLenhart on 04-10-2015 01:09 PM:

You could be on to something there!

quote:
Originally posted by Hoosier
We all know people who are Bi-Polar. Do you have or have you ever had a dog that you thought might be Bi-Polar?

You know the one that acts one way today and tomorrow is a completely different dog...then a few days later is back to "normal"?

Is this even possible? It would certainly explain a lot in certain dogs. LOL

I've never owned one that would have been bi-polar but I can think of one dog in particular that probably is. Every time my friend brings her around I wonder which one of her is going to show up. LOL

Posted by jerhovt on 04-10-2015 01:58 PM:

Dont know for sure but I had one
I swear was.

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Posted by msinc on 04-10-2015 03:01 PM:

Re: Can dogs be Bi-Polar ?

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Originally posted by Hoosier
We all know people who are Bi-Polar. Do you have or have you ever had a dog that you thought might be Bi-Polar?

You know the one that acts one way today and tomorrow is a completely different dog...then a few days later is back to "normal"?

Is this even possible? It would certainly explain a lot in certain dogs. LOL

I don't know if it's bipolar activity, but I had a walker female that about once a month she would just go in one direction through the woods and not come back...never make a bark doing it. Nobody had trackers back then so I never knew when it would happen until after it did.
Every time she did it I would get a call about two or three days later saying she was found...many miles away. Otherwise she was a good little coon dog. We treed a lot of coons with her and no one would have ever guessed that she would act this way after seeing her go. I used to think she was going off by herself to run junk, but if she did she also went silent and was normally very open on the track.
By definition, every woman I ever knew was bipolar...I don't see why a dog couldn't be too. A lot of old timers used to say,"anything a woman will do a dog can to!!!"

Posted by Hoosier on 04-10-2015 03:04 PM:

Re: Re: Can dogs be Bi-Polar ?

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Originally posted by msinc
By definition, every woman I ever knew was bipolar...I don't see why a dog couldn't be too. A lot of old timers used to say,"anything a woman will do a dog can to!!!"

I wasn't going to go THERE but now that you mention it.

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Posted by blackflagginit on 04-10-2015 03:44 PM:

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Originally posted by Hoosier
I wasn't going to go THERE but now that you mention it.

X2

make that x3

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Posted by blackflagginit on 04-10-2015 04:25 PM:

I have had 3 over the years who when they were right were all but unbeatable, and when they were wrong.........you wanted to beat them ......

one of them it was just a gamble and you didn't know what you had that night until you cut her loose. there was no middle ground with her EVER......you either had a coon treeing wonder...........or you wondered why the heck you even fed her. no ryme or reason, no certain terrain or condishion that was a sign of a good or bad night......just an all out gamble.

the other 2 were kind of divas. if they liked you atm they were on fire........of you ticked them off they were useless until you made peace (just like a dang woman )

one of those, my old Racket gyp was my favorite for many many years. when I first got her she was a nice hound but had a habit of treeing possums. she had never really been taught anything, always ran loose till I got her and did what ever she wanted. I decided pretty quick the possum act had to go, so I scolded her one night (this was after we had spent several months hunting hard and she had had some coon finally shot out to her) before that I had just ignored them.

we were hunting along some old railroad tracks and she had treed a cpl coons and we shot them out. pretty soon she brings a possum to us and drops it at my feet, something she did with coons too when she caught them (and often did) I got onto her and I swear she flipped me off as she left........I cant prove it but im positive she at least gave me "that look" anyway.

we kept walking down the tracks and it was a little over a mile to the next road where we had another truck parked. not a bark from that gyp the rest of the time but as we walked we came across another mauled possum every so often left in the middle of the tracks........13 total lol........when we got to the truck there on the tailgate was a dead coon she had left for us, and she fell treed a little ways into the woods across the road with 1 more

that was the last of her possums, I don't think she ever treed another one or brought one back.......but I swear the ones left on the tracks were her way of saying she was ALWAYS going to have the last word in an argument (again just like a dang woman )

Posted by msinc on 04-10-2015 04:35 PM:

I always said that "women are like coon dogs...they all look good, you just have to spend a few nights with them to find out what you really have!!!!"

Posted by Fisher13 on 04-10-2015 04:52 PM:

Re: Can dogs be Bi-Polar ?

quote:
Originally posted by Hoosier
We all know people who are Bi-Polar. Do you have or have you ever had a dog that you thought might be Bi-Polar?

You know the one that acts one way today and tomorrow is a completely different dog...then a few days later is back to "normal"?

Is this even possible? It would certainly explain a lot in certain dogs. LOL

My neighbor has a jack russel that will lick the sidewalk crack, for hours upon end. If you get near her she will snap and growl. She is nuts for sure. We always joke that she is hooked on crack.

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Posted by RatDog on 04-10-2015 06:35 PM:

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Originally posted by blackflagginit
I have had 3 over the years who when they were right were all but unbeatable, and when they were wrong.........you wanted to beat them ......

one of them it was just a gamble and you didn't know what you had that night until you cut her loose. there was no middle ground with her EVER......you either had a coon treeing wonder...........or you wondered why the heck you even fed her. no ryme or reason, no certain terrain or condishion that was a sign of a good or bad night......just an all out gamble.

the other 2 were kind of divas. if they liked you atm they were on fire........of you ticked them off they were useless until you made peace (just like a dang woman )

one of those, my old Racket gyp was my favorite for many many years. when I first got her she was a nice hound but had a habit of treeing possums. she had never really been taught anything, always ran loose till I got her and did what ever she wanted. I decided pretty quick the possum act had to go, so I scolded her one night (this was after we had spent several months hunting hard and she had had some coon finally shot out to her) before that I had just ignored them.

we were hunting along some old railroad tracks and she had treed a cpl coons and we shot them out. pretty soon she brings a possum to us and drops it at my feet, something she did with coons too when she caught them (and often did) I got onto her and I swear she flipped me off as she left........I cant prove it but im positive she at least gave me "that look" anyway.

we kept walking down the tracks and it was a little over a mile to the next road where we had another truck parked. not a bark from that gyp the rest of the time but as we walked we came across another mauled possum every so often left in the middle of the tracks........13 total lol........when we got to the truck there on the tailgate was a dead coon she had left for us, and she fell treed a little ways into the woods across the road with 1 more

that was the last of her possums, I don't think she ever treed another one or brought one back.......but I swear the ones left on the tracks were her way of saying she was ALWAYS going to have the last word in an argument (again just like a dang woman )

Wow thats an awesome story.

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Posted by blackflagginit on 04-10-2015 07:17 PM:

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My neighbor has a jack russel that will lick the sidewalk crack, for hours upon end. If you get near her she will snap and growl. She is nuts for sure. We always joke that she is hooked on crack.

when I first started hunting Ferrari's Dolly pup, she would just up and start baying the ground for no apparent reason and start digging (she was only 7 or 8 months old I think).

we used to laugh and laugh and wonder what the heck that silly pup was thinking........then one night I actually paid attention (wasn't much else going on with the other dogs that night) and she was freaking BAYING MICE underground....I watched a little closer from then on and every so often she would go as far as digging one out and killing/eating it.

that wasn't her only "cat like habit", and she outgrew it........but I still laugh when I think of it.

Posted by Dogwhisper on 04-10-2015 08:56 PM:

I'm sure yaw have heard the expression " dogs take on the characteristics of their owner " .
So.... who really is bi-polar? Lol
But Yea I got a part time buddy that had a dog that we claimed to b bi-polar....even went so far as to claiming that particular line of dogs threw it .

Posted by Scary Creek on 04-11-2015 12:58 AM:

Dogs have a brain just like anything else and each dog I've seen is like a human they have their own personality . This is a true story , one night my uncle and myself where going huntin went out n picked him up he had his smokey 2 hound outta my snap dog tied to his porch . I pulled up he came out grabbed him led him to the truck dropped tailgate smoke jumped up a put his head in dog box stopped backed out and was full fledged growling showing teeth hair standing up on him , he turned around jumped off the tailgate and literally attacked us like a police dog would . After we defused the situation and got him tied up away from us my uncle with a bloody four arm we just stood their and scratched our heads like what the hell just happened . We went on huntin and left him came back and you couldn't get near him he left him tied up same spot for few days took food n water to him but you had to sit down n run . My uncle ended up calling bet and they came n muzzled him and had him put down . This dog was never mistreated in no way but just snapped one day . Vet told my uncle its not uncommon for dogs to break down mentally or have so called mental problems .

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Posted by blackflagginit on 04-11-2015 01:46 AM:

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Originally posted by Dogwhisper
I'm sure yaw have heard the expression " dogs take on the characteristics of their owner " .
So.... who really is bi-polar? Lol

come to think of it........you might have a point there lol

Posted by blackflagginit on 04-11-2015 02:01 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Scary Creek
Dogs have a brain just like anything else and each dog I've seen is like a human they have their own personality . This is a true story , one night my uncle and myself where going huntin went out n picked him up he had his smokey 2 hound outta my snap dog tied to his porch . I pulled up he came out grabbed him led him to the truck dropped tailgate smoke jumped up a put his head in dog box stopped backed out and was full fledged growling showing teeth hair standing up on him , he turned around jumped off the tailgate and literally attacked us like a police dog would . After we defused the situation and got him tied up away from us my uncle with a bloody four arm we just stood their and scratched our heads like what the hell just happened . We went on huntin and left him came back and you couldn't get near him he left him tied up same spot for few days took food n water to him but you had to sit down n run . My uncle ended up calling bet and they came n muzzled him and had him put down . This dog was never mistreated in no way but just snapped one day . Vet told my uncle its not uncommon for dogs to break down mentally or have so called mental problems .

when I first bought my old Ozarks Rebel Pride dog, he would EAT you alive if you got in the pen with him. open up the dog box and open the kennel, he would jump in the box and was your buddy the rest of the night.....until you put him back in the kennel anyway.

when I went to look at him for the first time, before I bought him, JD Cox had him. he warned me not to get in the pen and about the habit while we were standing there. I told him I didn't think I wanted a dog like that, and he said he will be fine once we let him out (and he was) but he was owned by a black man in Mound City KS till he was a yr old and the guy was always in trouble with the city for him barking, so he beat the H E double hockey sticks out of him for it every time he so much as barked once...and went in his pen to do it.

It took me 2 or 3 weeks before I could get in his pen while he was in there, before that when I would clean it, or feed and water him, I had to open the dog box and put him in it first. once he was out of the pen like say hunting or messing with him around the yard he was fine from day one.

long story short, he got over it with me and most everyone else, but there was no way in Hanna's heaven you could hunt him around a black person. he would flat out attack on sight. If I drew one in a hunt I had to just withdraw

I had a buddy who was black I ran into at hunts once in awhile, and he spent a long long time trying to get him over it and warm up to him but he never could. he was that way till he died of old age.

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