Misconceptions About Dogs
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- Spoiler alert: One dog year is NOT equal to seven human years.
Dogs have been man's best friend for thousands of years. But how well do we really know these adorable, furry friends? Do they really see in black and white? Are neutering and spaying bad for your dog? What does it mean when they eat grass?
Host Justin Dodd breaks down some common myths and misconceptions about the the BEST pets, dogs.
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My dog is a Chihuahua mix, weighs about 12 pounds, and just turned 16 yo. He still has the energy of a much younger dog and shows no signs of slowing down yet. He is a Very Good Boy.
Chihuahua were bred as food
That putting your thumb over the hose end makes increases the water pressure. It increases the speed.
I learned that small dogs age roughly 15 years in the first year, 9 in the second, and then 4 years every year thereafter. This makes for an easy formula of:
(age*4)+16 = age in "dog years"
So a 5-year-old dog would be around about 36 in "dog years".
If a medium-size dog ages 5 years for every year after the second, then the formula would be:
(age*5)+14 = age in "dog years"
Which then would make a 5-year-old dog about 39 in "dog years".
So I suppose a good rule of thumb is to gauge the size of the dog before picking a formula.
A small dog (Pomeranian-Chihuahua size) could be: (age*4)+16
A medium dog (Beagle-Heeler size) could be: (age*5)+14
A large dog (Labrador-German Shepherd size) could be: (age*6)+12
A giant dog (Great Dane-Mastiff size) could be: (age*7)+10
Though this is all just guesstimates. There is literally no such thing as "dog years".
While we're here, and this is the internet, a "cat year" can be formulated: (age+6)3
How many pregnant 9 year olds do you know? Because cats can get pregnant at 6 months old.
My Bernedoodle turned 3 a couple months ago. She's 60-65 lbs, but people are shocked she's not younger because of how playful she is. She even still has puppy eyes! I guess she has the maturity level of her human dad...
Also there's no such thing as an alpha wolf either. Even the person who coined that term has spent the entirety of the rest of his career and life trying to get people to drop it because it's not correct.
There are alfas in a wolf pack but mostly they are the parents of the other wolves , they live in an annual generaiton hierarchy structure (where also the sex determines the pack order secondarly). (The old wolf study appears in natural environment as an overnumbered loose giant pack structure, but they are rare and they do not last long)
Or shortly; a normal wolf pack is a 3(-4) generation family system with 1 male alpha and 1 female alpha.
I dunno jaryth….. we all seen balto…..
This makes sense why are so many yellow, and green dog toys about, i thought it was just a case of them using pacifying colours, to help control the dogs behaviour, and temperament but with them dichromatic vision, that makes a lot more sense now!
I seriously put off watching this video because I was worried that you would say that dogs aren't perfect, which is funny, because it's a well-established fact that they are.
Missed misconception: dogs *aren't* perfect.
Cats are more perfect than dogs. You can go away and leave your cat alone but you can’t do that with a dog.
Schrodinger's Cat was a thought experiment to disprove the notion that objects can be in two different states at the same time. Not some way to make an undead feline.
That who Alpha Beta etc wolf thing came from a study where many different wolves from different packs were put together, then that structure formed, but in a 'traditional' wolf pack this structure is not really seen.
Yup. Then there's the fact that your dog is not stupid enough to think you are a dog, so trying to create canine social structures is just kind of pointless. There's nothing wrong with the old standby - reinforce good behavior with healthy treats and attention, and withhold the same after bad behavior. NEVER try to punish bad behavior unless you catch it in the exact moment - for example, if you find they pooped on the carpet earlier in the day, and you call them over and show them the poop and punish them, they are more likely to connect the punishment to coming when called than to the poop.
But it is a practical reference to how stranger dogs behave with low resources, especially independent type dogs, such as kuvasz or caucasian shepherds etc. (prison studies are in the same shoes in case of humans)
Most of the nowadays studies still do not follow important criterias: the taken examples (dogs) and the living environment. 70 years ago it was mostly wolf studies in closed environments, nowadays ethologists test '"only" family dogs from family environment. (it is also about sponsorship)
I’ve been thinking about this. Dogs have lived with human families for so long, wouldn’t they socially more accept a typical “family” setting as natural?
I don’t need to be “dominant” or “alpha”, but I am the leader. Chances are I’m “mom” or “the enforcer” (I’m just consistent). I make the rules and expect them to be followed.
They are both super sweet & well behaved. I trained with the “alpha” thing in mind, but was I really enforcing the natural “leader” or “mom” role? I would have trained the same way, but a different mindset.
I'd love to know if there's some explanation for why our dog seems to love pink. By all accounts, she shouldn't be able to differentiate it from green, but she will pick her pink toys to play with consistently over any other color, and even knows the word, as we can ask her to bring a pink toy and she never gets it wrong (she has many toys, she's pretty spoiled)
@Buttered Toast maybe she can smell the color
We just put down my baby girl not too long ago. She was 17 and a hair's breath away from 80lbs.
Just pointing out that lots of love is the most important ingredient.
So sorry to hear that, but glad you (hopefully?) got a nice long time with her.
😿 condolences.
@@MentalFloss all of it.
True. Love can make a big difference.
Got to the part of giving pitbulls a break.... while mine is sitting here pouting that her stuffed toy is an inch out of her reach unless she gets up. lol
During world war 2 the military put a premium on getting people who were color blind. They found that the camouflage that worked so well with regular color sighted people in hiding enemy positions, ammunition storage, artillery pieces, etcetera, could be far easier to be seen through by color blind people. They were taught to fly spotter aircraft with the wings on top so they could fly over enemy territory to spot where their positions were at.
That meant they never had to participate in combat operations but it also meant they were flying a slow aircraft above the enemy at fairly low altitudes and were often shot at, which is why they tried to protect the pilot and make certain they got home with a thin metal plate under the pilot and engine that was able to stop or deflect most regular rifle fire.
Watching this with my corgi by my side. He loves to eat grass. He just enjoys a bit of salad! He is discerning about the type of grass he eats. He also enjoys broccoli and carrots, and has been known to even eat kale. My other dog likes carrots and broccoli, but not grass or kale. Btw, they both also get a veggie mix at every meal. Thank you for the great video!
My little boy loooooves a literal salad. Lettuce is a huge reward for him. He loves bell peppers too. We always cut up the tops to give him as a treat. If he's not getting them often enough for his liking he'll definitely munch some grass to let me know. The little Prince obviously likes his meats too, but a bed of lettuce or a plate of cut peppers? Peak excitement.
@@rougnashi my daughter's dog loved to "attack" the lettuce.
Didn't know I'd be googling "dog eating salad videos" today, but here we are.
@@MentalFloss Obviously we don't put dressing on it but when we make salads for us we'll prep a plate for him! His favorite is the cronchy stem 🤣 He also loves bean sprouts. I share them with him when I order pho. There's lots of videos out there that basically equate to dog mukbangs for asmr so a video of pups eating a salad shouldn't be too hard to find. ❤
@@peggywoods4327 We're pretty sure Rikki loves the crunch. 🤣❤ If the lettuce is wilted he doesn't eat it. A decerning palate for textures. He looks so happy when he gets his cronchy veggies. Ironically, entirely uninterested in crunchy meat flavored dog treats 😂 An enigma.
Can we do misconceptions about cats next?! 😊
I've just finished d watching the video and realized that I can't remember all misbeliefs, crazy right. My memory sucks
Physics misconceptions: #1The speed of light isn't just the speed of light. It's the speed of gravity, magnetism, etc. Basically the speed of causality in a vacuum. #2 The earth revolves around the sun. In actuality they both revolve around their common center of mass #3The big bang is also commonly thought of as an explosion that happened in an already existing empty universe instead of the inflation of the universe into it's boundaries. That's all I got; it's 7am.
# 2 is a vast oversimplification that could only be true if Earth was the only body orbiting the sun. But yes, it is not nearly as stable/simple as the earth revolving around a static sun. But you try to teach that level of complexity to 3rd graders...
But that common center of mass is inside the sun.
Deep inside.
Some things right, many things wrong, as usual for this channel
I’m surprised about the hypoallergenic thing. I’m crazy allergic to dogs, but have a labradoodle that has never given me issues
I think that’s precisely where the idea that hypoallergenic dogs exist, comes from. But an allergy to, say dogs, can be from one or a variety of things. It’s not the same for everyone which particular things are triggers, and it can sometimes change throughout your lifetime.
This is why some food allergies tend to be correlated with allergies to particular other foods, but that list doesn’t apply to everyone who is allergic to one of them.
And the whole thing is further complicated by allergies and sensitivities not being exactly the same thing, but most of us conflate the two, and may not know which it is we’re dealing with.
You just found a dog that doesn’t trigger whatever in particular you happen to be allergic to - and that’s fantastic! :)
Before adopting a cat, I try to ensure I inhale, and get plenty of lose fur/dander etc from them on my skin - assuming they don’t set me off within minutes. If I’m not suffering within a few hours, they’re a good match for me in terms of allergens. How much they shed, or if they have dandruff doesn’t give any useful indication.
There should be a word between not-hypoallergenic and hypoallergenic. Like... Partly hypoallergenic or something?
I’m allergic to dogs and it’s completely random which dogs I’m allergic to.
When Mythbusters tested the "Dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's" myth, they found that dog mouths do have fewer germs than humans, but the germs present are more dangerous.
Paul McCartney called, he wants his eyes back
Here is a slightly profane physics fact. The Higgs Boson is frequently referred to as the "God Particle" a lot of people have taken this to mean that it is some fundamental or finely tuned part of the universe. The real reason is much funnier. It is called the God Particle, because it was "so god damn hard to find".
Yup, my dog just likes the flavor of grass. But only one type. She'll turn her nose up at most turf grass, but she loves this one type of wide bladed grass that grows in a few fields near our place.
*FUN FACTOID* A male dog elevates a leg to urinate in order to disengage his rear differential. This allows him to relieve himself in a stationary position.
Some dogs are definitely better for my allergies than others but my allergies can still irritated after a while
My dog will be 69 this year according to those calculations. That’s pretty cool.
Misconception about dogs Number One: They’re cute. Misconception Number Two: They have any redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Misconception: I had a dog owner say that their dog won’t bite. Unfortunately the dog didn’t get that memo because the dog tore a big chunk out of my coat by biting it.
5:18 (ish) Australian scientists or Austrian scientists? Quite the difference in speech and script there! :P
In regards to physics misconceptions: "energy" isn't a corporeal thing, it's an annotation of properties.
The hypoallergenic dog is the Argentine black and white tegu
Physics misconception black holes are holes.
Hahaha will definitely be petitioning to add this to the list.
@@MentalFloss Fab
Came here to say this!
Really need a list in the comments with all the misbeliefs combined
A couple of physics misconceptions:
1. "Splitting an atom causes a nuclear explosion": Not quite that simple. Just splitting one atom isn't enough. Indeed, radioactive atoms split all the time, that is what radioactive decay is. What causes a nuclear explosion is when there is a chain reaction, where a splitting atom releases neutrons which themselves go on to cause other atoms to split, releasing more neutrons, causing more reactions, and so on. This can only happen with enough material that behaves this way when it interacts with a neutron, which is why nuclear bombs require fissile material like U-235. The energy releazed from just one atom splitting is very small and wouldn't be noticeable without specialized equipment.
2. "There is no gravity in space": For example, people on the ISS feel like there is no gravity, but what is actually happening is that the station and everything inside it is falling at the same speed as they are, so their relative speeds are the same, causing the feeling of weightlessness. The station doesn't fall into ground because it is in orbit and also goes sideways just the right amount for Earth, being round and therefore curved, to stay at the same distance. No matter how far away from Earth you go, you technically still experience its gravitational force, although very far away it becomes negligible.
Physics misconception: Nothing can travel faster than light. If you add the conditions "through space(time)" and "in vacuum", then correct. But phenomena such as Cherenkov radiation are caused when particles travel through a medium faster than the speed of light _in_the_medium_! Also, there are distant objects that, due to the (supposedly) uniform expansion of space due to dark energy, are travelling away from us faster than the speed of light.
WRT to the expansion of the universe, it is a misconception to suggest that those distant objects are traveling faster than light because they are traveling away from us at faster than light speed. In point of fact, we are each traveling from a common origin point in (roughly) opposite directions, both at considerably less than the speed of light.
From alpha mails to wagging tales
My dogs are grazers, and I feed them well with healthy food, lol.
Misconceptions on the earth being flat
- The "dog-years" thing is absurd because cats and dogs (and most animals) are precocial, they grow very rapidly very quickly to become independent, then the slow down, they don't age linearly, it's logarithmic. Humans are altricial af. 😒
- It's odd that some cultures thought dogs' mouths and saliva are clean or medicinal while some think they're haram. 🤨
- If a pet doesn't learn a trick, maybe it's because they just don't want to. Animals have personalities like humans do. 🤷
- 5:12 Jun of Jun's Kitchen always lets his cats watch him cook and he always offers the ingredients he's using to them to smell to give them some stimulation so they don't get bored. I used to do the same thing with my cats. Keep them alert. 👍
- Saying dogs need to see humans as their "alphas" is absurd. For one thing, dogs are NOT wolves, they've been inbred into oblivion, so there's no wolf instinct left in them. For another thing, it's just humans trying to dominate others, as usual. 😠
- Just get your dog some cat-grass so that they have fresh, safe grass available if they need it.
- If anything, humans should also be spayed and neutered. No, seriously, the world would be infinitely better.
- Nature and Nurture both affect everything in life, but they work in very different ways. Nurture determines what's _possible_ while nature determines what actually manifests. It's sad people actually have to defend pit-bulls from false stereotypes. 🤦
- Humans have manipulated dogs so much, that their waste isn't even natural anymore, it's toxic. 🤦
Physics misconception:
Snowflakes can have varying amount of 'arms'. Snowflakes (nearly) always have six 'arms' due to the way water crystalizes into snowflakes.
Thank you so much for dispelling the "aggressive" breed myth. You are right, we had a American Staffordshire terrier that thought he was a lap dog! On the other hand, we've rescued little "family friendly" dogs that loved to bite the hand that fed them.
While it was taken from a large number of people, there's an inherent bias if you ask a dog owner about their dogs traits and attribute them to the breed. Before dog attacks happen the owner often claims that their dog is sweet, calm, and wouldn't attack anyone. But stats based on breeds seem to speak louder than owner's opinions of their dogs. Especially since most owner's aren't specially trained to raise dogs.
Edit: typo corrected
I boopa da snoot :3
Science 👏 based 👏 dog training 👏.
ooh! "Misconceptions about physics", you say? How about how radiation ACTUALLY works and all the people freaking out about nuclear plants, 5g and cell phone radiation but not concerned at all about flights overseas or going to the beach 😄
Ironic that dog saliva used to be thought as a remedy when dog saliva is deemed haram and everytime a dog licks you you should wash the area with soil & water before you can pray again 🤣
Physics, an unstoppable object and an unmoveable cannot exist in the same universe. (Though one should say unaccelerable object (spelling?)).
Neither such thing actually exists. So that's not an issue.
Netur dog yep with two agencies I still payed 500 for a pup that had to grow old enough
I would guess that not much research has been done on communities where the dog population is out of control. Some communities have more dogs than people. Some cultural bias there too maybe? Dogs can pass through a lifetime and not see a vet.
Interesting though. Thanks.
I have a min-pin who is 23 years old.
Um. Yes, all mammals will have bacteria in their poop, but if your dog's poop is full of parasites, you should be taking your dog to the vet.
The reason dog poop is not healthy for your garden has more to do with the fact that they're meat-eaters, and they're domesticated. You don't compost their waste for the same reason you don't compost meat-- it spoils instead of breaking down into useful manure. And, like human waste, the bacteria and possible medications your dog is on (like, for heartworm) are probably not the kind of thing you want to be putting on your veggies.
My father has been tellin me to let dogs lick my wounds since i was a child.
Contrary to popular thought, dogs CANNOT fly. Last time I throw a puppy off a balcony, I swear.
Anyone who has watched UHF knows that. Come on man.
I heard cats can land on their feet and survive if they’re thrown out of an airplane.
@@burgerman101 Well, I suppose it is possible. How big is the airplane? And has it gotten airborne yet?
Jfc I just shot whisky out of my nose
@@samuelseager6785 747 Boeing airplane at 30000 feet above the ground.
Physics misconception: it is the curvature of the space around the Earth caused by the Earth's mass that holds satellites in orbit. In fact, it is mostly the curvature of the time dimension that enables stable orbits.
Tge bad grammar is depressing. A dog = it
Some dogs = they
"they" can never be singular.
"Laws of physics" is a misleading term. They are more "Behavior of the universe" collected through observations and described by mathematics. Laws of physics sounds a bit arrogant to me.
>BCE
>cringe
The biggest misconception you seemed to miss, is that DOGS ARE NOT HUMANS, no matter how smart they are, how well they listen, and how good they are around other humans and dogs - and that you call them your 'furry child or furry baby' - they are not Human, they don't and shouldn't be held to the expectations of a human. They will sort out their pack order if you have more than one dog, they will act the way that nature programmed them to in certain situations, putting a human expectation on a dog, is a fool's folly. Period.
I gave up my daily walks because dog owners can be terrible people. They think that their large dogs are "puppies" who would only maul a person if they are "afraid". Your "good boy" Rott' or Pit' is an AR-15 about to go off in my direction. I've even heard it said that the #1 killer of little dogs are big dogs. Color me NOT surprised. If a dog owner can't even be bothered to pick up the poop, than I'm assuming NO effort was also made to train the dog not to be an aggressive danger to people or smaller animals. I often alert people walking small dog if I've seen a large dog off-leash nearby . Without fail they pick up that tiny creature off the ground and thank me profusely.
*#1: Misconception about dogs.* 🤔
They won't lick everything with peanut butter on it but they will lick anything for 20$ 🐕... 😳
*"NUFF SAID"™️*
Dogs >>>>> Cats 🙂
Spaying and neutering as a form of cancer prevention is like castrating yourself because you’re afraid of getting testicular cancer
You might want to re-listen to that segment. It's kind of clear you didn't really understand it too well.
Pit bulls are responsible for 65% of fatal dog attacks. That's over half from just one breed! There is NO REASON for anyone to take that risk, or expose others to it. Just pick a different breed, you will love the dog just as much.
Only because pitties are so often trained to it. A pittie who has not been trained to fight is no more dangerous than any other large breed and is typically less aggressive than quite a few breeds.
@@backpacker3421 WRONG. The problem with pit bulls is that they go berserk. It is NOT normal aggression, it is some kind of mental problem. That many fatal attacks is NOT just a coincidence, it is NOT just bad training. It is mental problem in the breed.
Ok you got me, actually not all pitbulls kill babies, they just tend to at higher rates. Really disproving that one. Lol.