She's mothering them, my dog did the same thing when we had to yake in some kittens and ended up keeping one, it's the motherly instinct to protect and care for a young animal
Yes ... all mothers naturally love and want to take care of children ... especially their own ... but EVIL people take baby cows away from their mothers all the time ... so they can sell the mothers milk to people instead of her feeding her own baby!!
aaaww shes concerned andshes just bein with em, notice she keeps counting them and calmly but diligently following them. watching over her duckies. aawwww so sweet
AWWW shes likely mothering them, herding them, and/or just super curious. if she had wanted to hurt/eat them, she couldve done it from outside the tub. Dobermans are such big babies, they are very expressive.
Look at their little flippers go! I don't recall ever seeing ducks swimming in clear water before, so i don't think I've ever seen their feet when they swim. Aww :)
The lady in the video says that Dobermans aren't a herding breed but in some countries they are occasionally used for herding larger animals (and humans during ww2! Eeek!)!But such a beatiful and intelligent dog, often misunderstood.
You have a very gentle and cute Doberman. She's looks very careful around the little ducklings! This reminds me of my rabbit who will chase my dog around the house if she feels like it.
reminds me of when my dad took our greyhound delilah for a walk down near a pond and he saw a mother duck and ducklings acting very distressed and he wondered why but delilah stopped in her tracks and leant her head down to sniff something, lke she was really interested in it. my dad went over to check and i was one of the ducklings that had obviously been swept away from its mother. delilah sort of looked up at my dad like 'what is this? what do we do with it?' and my dad picked it up and put it back with its family :)
It's amazing how gently she steps into the tub with them and how she's careful not to step on them and the way it seems she nudges the water also gently as if to invite the chicks to play. So sweet. You have a truly beautiful sweet soul in your pup. 💕💕💕
Lord, she's just like my dobie was - obsessively chasing around any young creature, worrying their head off! Dobermans are oddly clingy with children...
I think she's being motherly and very curious. It's so sweet to see Doberman represented in such a sweet way though!! Having had a Doberman mix when I was young, I've seen a lot of prejudice against these loyal, sweet, intelligent dogs.
Sometimes I think dogs can grasp the idea of "cute". Not necessarily motherly instinct, but more so like "Awwww, these _____ are so tiny and small...!" Like here, she seems so interested and concerned.
Most mammals can grasp the idea of "cute". In biology cuteness is called Neotony--essentially, those features that signal infancy (large head, large eyes, button nose). In animals with strong maternal instincts, neotenous features make female animals want to protect and care for baby animals, even the babies other species, and for males to want to encourage them.
Eirykr In this case, though, do the ducks fit under the neotenous description? Their eyes and head are rather small compared to the rest of their anatomy, versus their "nose" which is quite big.
I'm pretty sure the ratios of their eye to eye distance, eye to head size still work out. Generally anything that most humans would universally consider "cute" would mean neotenous features, because we have those instincts also. Programmed by evolution to feel something for them.
I believe this dog is actually concerned for these ducks. I know a lot of people would say "you're projecting human feelings onto a dog!" but hear me out... She's staring at them and giving whale eye, a sign of distress and anxiousness. Her posture is tense. When she gets in and the owner pets her, she licks her lips (anxiousness, "not now"). And she gently pushes them with her nose toward the shallow end.
Lol! I totally agree! She still loves the ducks even though they're huge now. She wants to be near them all the time, but they run away from her and she whines. She doesn't understand why they won't play with her:( I had no idea she was such a big softy!
Great ears, great dober and amazingly cool psychology. Well done. Keep showing to all those idiots that Dobers are fine dogs and not what people falsely say about them!
I can’t believe this. You’re going to let people think its okay to own FOUR DUCKS when I have 0 and NOT share those ducks with me? :( What a good dog, though. The ducklings are like “?????” and she’s like “babies? puppies??? i must protect them!!”
