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  1. #1
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    I learned about prey drive when I was 4 years old, my neighbor friend had just gotten a baby rabbit. I was visiting ( just across the field, and she took it out to show me, set it on the ground, and my beloved Sheba killed it instantly, then set it back down. It didn't even look damaged, there was no gore, but our parents had to explain prey drive to us.'

    It didn't mean Sheba was a bad dog, they explained, but that she had this instinct, and we should be careful to never let small animals around her.
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    Dogs are both ... prey driven killers, and our cuddly babies. Humans are the same way ... our sweet cuddly little kiddos beat the crap out of each other on the playground sometimes, too.

    Predators are violent, it's how they survive. We are predators, too.

    I'm sorry if your dogs showed you their wild side. It is indeed ugly, frightening and disturbing. But it's also natural.
    "We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam

    "We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle

    "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien

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