Shelzin
Equal Opportunity Asshole
- Jul 15, 2012
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Your training doesn't agree with any dictionary that I know of in regards to the word. If I have a choice between trusting what you know about the correct meaning, or a dictionary... I'm going to pick the dictionary every time. Just a heads up for possible future misunderstandings.I agree with that.
He could have been protecting food that was in the pack as far as any of us know.
Without movement there is no lunge. In the video clearly the dog lunged in a charging motion. He was not walking.
In the picture it's possible that the dog was holding it's ground. It's possible the dog got into that position because the person holding he leash backed up, instead of the dog pulling forward. Again... If there is no motion there is no lunge. Holding ground is not lunging. There was no movement. I'm not saying that is what is happening in the picture, only that it's a possibility given it's a still frame and harder to judge if it's lunging or not.
The argument that the dog wasn't lunging because it wasn't aggressive is a stupid argument. That has nothing to do with lunging. The dog was defending, and likely was not a threat as it was more show than an actual want to bite anyone. However that does not mean in any way, shape, or form that the dog did not lunge.
The dog did lunge in the video.
Edit: If someone wants to argue that the dog wasn't showing signs of aggressiveness to the point of biting someone... I have no choice but to agree. However it is obviously showing that the dog felt that it would bite if it had to. The dog was warning people. I wouldn't expect the average Joe to know the difference. But to say he didn't lunge is both stupid and incorrect.
I hate to disagree on the lunging part, I really do but from my training lunging would be in the act of jumping forward. the dog didn't do that he ran forward.
Well met.