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Golden Retriever Saves Baby Deer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suh2ggzLm_U
Oct 2, 2017 5:35 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suh2ggzLm_U
igotbannedacouplemonthagoagain
XethorWasAlreadyTaken
Now reverse it, golden retriver drowns baby deer
Doctorgivemethenews
News flash... deer can swim
DarkSock
Well come on then now there’s a good boy
vodkarockstar
Storm da real mvp.
RodMcShaftalot
Does are the best people and we have done nothing to deserve them.
BCOH
Ahhh, retrier is strong with this one.
jmzthfish
Not the sort of "stick" I expect doggo to fetch.
pwnyexpress
Was expecting a bear again
hamper10
look like it wanted to retrieve a kill...
xuvial
Well, either way it was going to retrieve something that day.
Callipygian93
"save"
sdfsdfsfccc
"So Storm followed and kissed it all better"... No. Storm ran down prey that was so exhausted and petrified it played dead....
sdfsdfsfccc
This really bothers me about people. Life is amazing, you don't need to reimagine it as a Disney film.
GuyWhoDoesTheThing
So the douche behind the camera stood and watched... way to go pal.
MinorityOpinion
Thank you - that was bugging me, too.
FullyFunctioningSociopath
So no venison for doggo? :(
SergeantSalsa
He goes for the throat quite a few times and won't let it escape. I don't think he was trying to be a life saver
barbapappaspappa
I think he's making sure it doesn't run in to the water again
barbapappaspappa
... in pure panic.
kackeohnesahne
"please don't die on me!"
amarant59
Good boy = Upvote
SDog08939
I can't believe how stupid people are. That dogs not trying to save the fawn, he's planning on eating it.
SDog08939
He's going for the throat and soft underside.
dicksqueezer
He’s the goodest boy ever
Raecracy123abc
Yeeeeeaaahh that dog is retrieving a hunted animal to bring it back to its owner/hunter. Including stopping it from getting away.
Raecracy123abc
That's literally what they are bread to do it wasn't overcome with a desire to save the deer's life.
LordOfTheGame
This has Nathan Fielder written all over it
MiniatureWoo
Deer in the water.
DuckMasterTheBaron
I cried just a little
Trfhfg
Absolutely. It's impossible it simply thought the deer was a prey and he was following his instinsts chasing it right? Nah, impossible
imnotgoodwithschedules
Anybody else wondering how the deer ended up in the water in the first place?
thehivemindd
It walked in because deer are idiots. Mama probably swam across and baby couldn’t keep up but also couldn’t swim to land.
SuperPickle17
Sink or swim is what mama deer told me.
voxinaudita
This. Have seen a lot of drowned fawns on riverbanks.
sdfsdfsfccc
Stop anthropomorphising animals. This dog is literally designed to get dinner out of the water. It's only cute, if you like eating dear.
ScaryScarab
It's sad when we humanize animals to the point where we think the dog actually cared if the deer died or not; it clearly wanted to eat it.
SuperPickle17
Not want to "eat it". It's more like "OMG. SOMETHING IS MOVING AND I MUST FETCH IT"
ScaryScarab
Fair; basically prey drive.
SuperPickle17
Basically. Doesn't eat it because he's not hungry. But still has the drive to hunt. Like cats that catch mice and play with them.
debilitatedbychoicehelp
As much as a I love dogs, I feel like its hunter instinct of retrieving from water kicked in 0.0
Meludan
Nope, they're bred to retrieve shot birds out of water. And they're very friendly to nearly everyone. They have no real hunting instinct.
ScaryScarab
Anybody can see what's going on if you would stop humanizing animals, the dog clearly was trying to hunt the deer, and wanted to kill it.
Narghle
I had a dog since I was born, and yeah -the kind of 'nervous' and quick moves of the dog indicate that this is definitely hunting behaviour.
tzap
They don't until they do. Golden Retrievers - like any breed basically - can attack another animal or a person seemingly unprovoked.
Meludan
So can nearly any creature in the world. To survive everyone will do anything. But a normal Retriever is very friendly and patient.
DeakVanNyke
so if it gets lost in the wild it will die of starvation before harming a living creature (rabbit, bird ect.) ?
StateOfPlague
Natural instincts and survival instincts aren't always the same in my opinion.
DeakVanNyke
I'd say "survival instincts" is a sub-category of "natural instincts", at least for animals but the fuck I know.
tzap
Also retrieval is part of the hunting instinct. The common term for the whole package is "prey drive". It has various aspects in it, 1/2
redbaronshotsauce
You are actually talking out of your ass im sorry anyone gives you credit. Read a book sometime.
tzap
Bit of a comment necro there - been two years I made that comment, haha. Anyway.. 2017 or 2019, prey drive is still made of the sequence 1/2
tzap
.. of finding, stalking, chasing, killing, hauling around, consuming, etc. And selective breeding can make one stronger than other. 2/2
tzap
.. including searching, pointing, chasing, killing, etc. One or the other can be amplified at the expense of others in a breed. 2/2
xiv8
Dogs are predators who hunt, chase, kill, and eat other animals. Cats are too.
xiv8
Also, dogs don't love you or u wouldn't have to keep them locked and chained. They're prisoners. Cats... stop feedng em n see if they love u
Denamic
Haha, oh man
calenturian
No, we keep dogs chained because otherwise they will go and bother people on the off-chance there will be sausages.
amfrha
Trfhfg
Downvoted for speaking the truth. Dogs love you because you feed and protect them. Stop doing that and they would maulder you
Unravelled
Then why are many dogs friendly to stranger who have never fed or protected them in their lives??
Pirsquar
It originally went both ways; we fed and protected dogs, they fed and protected us. Their loyalty is thousands of years old.
tzap
Dogs don't have a clue about what happened thousands of years ago. They don't have any unbreakable, inherent loyalty for all of humanity.
Pirsquar
True. But due to thousands of years of domestication, it is now in their instincts to trust us and gravitate towards us.
tzap
Nah, dogs are fairly social animals who do form decently strong ties to their pack. Most dogs would starve before attacking their pack.
Subwall
Every golden retriever I’ve ever met is better than most people I know.
sadiii
We don't deserve dogs, I swear
ozzycats
A friend's golden looks at me like Im a piece of ham
ProxyPlayerHD
as their name says, they have a heart of gold
ShirouBlue
Didn't we breed them to be like that?
qwerztui
Theyre good Dogs brönt
vauhtihirmu
Mr. Peanutbutter!
rm23fx
Mr peanutbutter is a labrador retriever.
JuliaLoveStar
guess he means mr peanutbutter to get some nasty shit done
agumonkey
we're neither golden nor retriever
anon311919
I believe shes the exception. But my roomates GR was the worst dog ive ever seen, & the first being ive genuinely considered murdering.
anon311919
& I dont wanna be hateful! To anything/one! But it wasnt just that the roomy was a bad owner. I could let that dog out as often and as long
anon311919
As 30 minutes, shed immediately come in and shit on the floor and stare at me doing it. 24/7 barking if not with somebody. We tried positive
anon311919
And negative reinforcement. She got her from a puppy mill, she had been a mom to who knows how many litters. But she knew what she was doing
anon311919
Because the first 2 weeks, she went outside every time. Then i guess she decided "fuck it"
SchwiftyGameOnPoint
Most? They are better than all people. 14/10
NZSheeps
Bront? Is that you?
lncorrectGrammerNazi
They're good dogs Brünt.
aslowhite
????
PackedCatMeowingPowerDensity
Even Keanu Reeves?
SchwiftyGameOnPoint
It's very close. Like Golden Retriever, Keanu, then maybe like Gandhi a few tiers down.
tzap
Even the ones that maul kids for no immediately obvious reason?
BagHumper
or maybe it's just not obvious to us? but i'd trust my goldens instincts, he's a good boy! (yes he is, yes he is)
tzap
Well I'm ofc meaning "immediately obvious" as in "immediately obvious for a human", as we've no way to know what the dog is thinking.
tzap
But honestly for most things, I'd trust my human associates and friends far better than I would trust a dog, especially an unknown dog.
Yossarian9
A gun dog getting prey out of the water and making sure it doesn't get away just isn't as heartwarming is it.
AFriendlyViking
It's going to live forever or die trying
Titmouseman
That's what Retrievers are made for aren't they? To get prey out of the pond!
itsybitsyspider
Totally my thought. I have a Labrador and I would expect him to do the same
Lordvice
That's the other side of this story
thomoSparkleBandit
LOL I didn't want to say it, but my thoughts exactly.
Koyoteodd
Whether he was trying to save the deer or retrieve it like he was breed to, he is still a good boy!
Reflectoreyes
That is what I was thinking.
otiumCatulli
yeah... see it nudging the belly? That's where predators start eating from...
pontiacgirl75
Exactly! he was going for the softest and easiest part
SnOwCap350
That wasn't doggie cpr?
EagleSonOfEagle
If you are 5-11 years old then yes, the dog was doing CPR.
EquilateralHawk
Gotta say I don't think so my golden has "caught" small rabbits but never harmed them he tries to baby them if they aren't trained to 1/
EquilateralHawk
Retrieve prey specifically they have the urge to retrieve but they don't treat it as sport
Yossarian9
They are bred to fetch and not maul, you could kill the rabbit and the dog will just go get another if it can, just instinct nothing more.
5NoteHalf
This. Golden instinct kicks in, it gets the deer, and then back on shore... "Oh! New friend! Yay! .........why'd I do that?"
Fobie
I mean the dog had the deer by the neck, goes after it when it tries to run. People need to stop inferring emotion on instinctual actions.
ScaryScarab
I also love the "storytime" tag, reminds me of the shit that Youtube gets on their "trending" page nowadays.
ScaryScarab
Social media tries to humanize animals to the point we forget they're animals; Anybody paying attention can see what's happening here.
Narghle
They should try and animalize the humans. Maybe this makes humans being nicer to each other. ;P
ScaryScarab
Okay Peta.
cognescenti
downvote. you're a pos human just like the rest of us. no need to be a tard and roll your eyes and cry communist.