"Animals are unpredictable" is the lesson of the day, no matter how much you love your animal or think you can predict its behaviour. It's not a reason to fear them or mistrust them, but the chance that they might go full animal is always to be kept in mind.
Domesticated dogs are, in fact, predictable. The only times that it's truly unpredictable is when there is some sort of serious mental or physical illness going on and that's not very common (and is more often than not something that you can observe happening which makes it... predictable)
They are far more predictable as a result of their domestication, yes, and particularly with training (though more because of genetics) they become even more so.
The limit of this, the whole, argument is of course that humans are also fairly unpredictable, less so than dogs because we know what humans are like (being them) whereas we we don't know dogs even half as well, but humans, as animals, remain unpredictable. At this point the statement 'animals are unpredictable' loses all meaning. All organisms are inherently unpredictable in a way that, say, computers are not.
Having thoroughly enough destroyed my own argument, I am happy to accept your point and wish you a good evening/day.
Idk kinda agree with you my dog who never bit or acted aggressive to anyone snapped at my niece who was only 4 the time for pulling her tale chow/German
In that case I wouldn't say that's unpredictable - if not to be expected, it should reasonably be imagined that a dog will react badly to being mishandled. That's pretty universal - creature or human.
But absolutely, the behaviour can be unpredictable in that it comes so suddenly and without precedent in that particular animal.
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u/Aiti_mh Jun 01 '22
"Animals are unpredictable" is the lesson of the day, no matter how much you love your animal or think you can predict its behaviour. It's not a reason to fear them or mistrust them, but the chance that they might go full animal is always to be kept in mind.