This gives me hope that on an instinctual/maybe intellectual level, animals could understand an abuse of authority.
Very young children like fairness (so young that this is observed rather than gleaned from interviews), so I wouldn’t be surprised if the same preference for fairness was present in other intelligent social animals
I remember reading a study like this! The animals were in separate cages next to each other, and they learned they’d get a reward for some task. And if you gave the other a cucumber as a reward, they’d eat it happily until they saw you gave the other something better, and they would get angry! I think they were monkeys, but I don’t remember enough and can’t find the research…
Many dogs tend to react strongly to ill-intentions and violence in humans (and in other dogs), and a lot of protective breeds will instinctually act when they observe someone means harm. Stuff like this can be observed for example when stray dogs move to protect people from attackers, there’s plenty of footage of it online.
In this case though it might just be the dog getting over-exited and directing that in a wrong way. That too happens sometimes
Good dog.
I hope that dog got a raise.
Hate to say it but probably got Noem’d
Depending on where this was, it likely got put down
I dont think it matters where. Cops are always happy to shoot dogs
This dog has more common sense than the fascist thugs that control it.
Couldn’t train out the good boy in him.
