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Re:Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male... by yorwba on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:23AM (#15754753)
Dogs are natural hunters and carnivores, too. I don't see how they are different from cats.
Re:Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male... by fbarred on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:33AM (#15755259)
Many dogs are natural hunters, but like bears, pigs, and humans, but unlike cats, dogs are omnivores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore.
Re:Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male... by stevenwoo on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @11:33AM (#15758095)
Breeds that were selectively bred in areas without carb sources for humans cannot digest starch effectively - they still are in a way genetically closer to wolves which can only minimally digest starch. (Siberian Huskies/Alaskan Malemutes that we commonly associate with Northern native peoples like the Eskimo off the top of my head)
Re:Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male... by ComputerGuru on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:41AM (#15754808)
Because household dogs don’t retain that behavior in the same way cats do.
Re:Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male... by omegaham on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:59AM (#15754882)
Yep. My dog will chase things, but he wouldn't know what to do with a prey animal if he caught one.

He's good at attacking the food bowl, and that's about it.

Re:Ketamine lifts rodents' mood only if administered by male... by zaarn on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @04:43AM (#15755566)
This kind of reminds me of my dog. He was quite happy with chasing birds whenever they landed in the garden. One day he caught one and killed it.

Then he kinda ignored the corpse for about week because he didn't know what to do with it and then we removed it from the garden (since we found it by then)

The bird was probably sick anyway since my dog is one of the worst hunting dogs I've seen.

I'm pretty sure it's due to the domestic upbringing, if he had grown up on a farm and actually had to hunt small rodents then he'd probably know how to eat them.