It’s not total nonsense. It’s pretty good shorthand for how a wolf hunts, and we’ve all seen this sort of dog behavior (which a mature wolf wouldn’t do, or else we wouldn’t have wolves anymore).
It’s just not the whole story. Wolves CAN take on (and take down) much larger animals, even healthy ones, but they’ll usually only do it as a pack. And a little dog rushing and barking his fool head off at, say, a horse or a bull isn’t really hunting it, he’s trying to express dominance and/or scare it off. The results are sometimes just what the cartoon shows, though.
“So basically you agree that it is total nonsense? Because wolves hunt in packs, and large dogs don’t bark like little idiots.”
Not at all. Wolves do not always hunt in packs, and even when they do, what’s shown is their strategy: Stalk, isolate the vulnerable, go for the throat. And it’s not that only dogs who bark their fool heads off at animals they can’t hope to defeat, it’s that even small dogs do it. Read Steinbeck’s account of his trip through Yellowstone with his dog Charley, upon his (Charley’s) first whiff of a bear. Charley was a Standard Poodle – a big dog, a strong dog, and (yes) a hunting dog.
In short, the first sequence shows wolf-like behavior, uncommon in dogs. The bottom sequence shows dog-like behavior, uncommon in wolves.
jack fairbanks about 11 years ago
looks like wolfgang latched onto a grumposaur.
caller49 about 11 years ago
Is that a Tortoise or a Tarus?
Dkram about 11 years ago
Looks more like King Coopa..\\//_
tahoeh2o about 11 years ago
Wait until he finds a porcupine…
fritzoid Premium Member about 11 years ago
“It’s funny, even though it’s total nonsense.”
It’s not total nonsense. It’s pretty good shorthand for how a wolf hunts, and we’ve all seen this sort of dog behavior (which a mature wolf wouldn’t do, or else we wouldn’t have wolves anymore).
It’s just not the whole story. Wolves CAN take on (and take down) much larger animals, even healthy ones, but they’ll usually only do it as a pack. And a little dog rushing and barking his fool head off at, say, a horse or a bull isn’t really hunting it, he’s trying to express dominance and/or scare it off. The results are sometimes just what the cartoon shows, though.
brklnbern about 11 years ago
A dog just does that and the neighbors yell feed the jerk or bring it inside.
abatheguy about 11 years ago
The Mario brothers called, they want their Spiny back.
Hunter7 about 11 years ago
why do some animals hunt? because they haven’t figured out who brings home the bacon. …. and we all know every meal is better with bacon!
Burnside217 about 11 years ago
We had a St.Bernard that had its annual Skunk hunt.
Rickapolis about 11 years ago
As they say, ’ That dog won’t hunt’.
fritzoid Premium Member about 11 years ago
“So basically you agree that it is total nonsense? Because wolves hunt in packs, and large dogs don’t bark like little idiots.”
Not at all. Wolves do not always hunt in packs, and even when they do, what’s shown is their strategy: Stalk, isolate the vulnerable, go for the throat. And it’s not that only dogs who bark their fool heads off at animals they can’t hope to defeat, it’s that even small dogs do it. Read Steinbeck’s account of his trip through Yellowstone with his dog Charley, upon his (Charley’s) first whiff of a bear. Charley was a Standard Poodle – a big dog, a strong dog, and (yes) a hunting dog.
In short, the first sequence shows wolf-like behavior, uncommon in dogs. The bottom sequence shows dog-like behavior, uncommon in wolves.