Today I saw a video about Teddy standing up and walking on the hot search again, and I was bored, wondering how many people would follow suit! And how many dogs will suffer from it!
I believe that we have seen similar videos or motion pictures, puppies like people walking upright is very cute, earn a lot of eyeballs. Is this really cute? It’s sad, stop taking ignorance for fun!
Or maybe it’s telling you that the owner has said: never taught him these movements, he likes to stand on his own!
How do you know? Are you the dog itself dog? Or the dog told you? Well, take a step back, even if the dog told you that it likes to stand and walk, as parents should guide it, correct it this behavior that is harmful to the body, which is like treating a child, educate the child, wrong we correct! Rather than putting the wrong on the wrong.
Although the small see the dog for the first time to learn to walk upright in time to stop, rather than appreciation and praise, then how the dog will develop such habits?
The dog should know that the dog in some cases will stand up, especially the master has something in his hand, not tall enough to stand up to get! Or when you are excited and happy, you will jump up and down to stand up.
But this time you say wow great ah, and then the hand food to the dog to eat, which is a reward for the dog, encouragement! Whether intentional or unintentional, such “rewards” are reinforcing his behavior, encouraging him to do so, and the dog knows that this is rewarded, so he will keep doing this action over and over again. The dog is such an animal, it can endure great pain just to master praise it to reward it.
Here we can look at a case where a dog suddenly became paralyzed without warning!
Chorong was a lively dog, very good at making his owner happy, and was the family’s little treasure!
But one day, Chorong suddenly became paralyzed without any warning, the owner said: I held him for a while, and then put him on the ground, he could not stand up on his hind legs…
After examination, the rear part of Chorong’s lumbar spine was damaged, resulting in paralysis.
Because of the paralysis of the lower part of his body, Chorong could not even take care of himself, so his owner had to change his diapers every day.
Because of the pain, Chorong can’t even sleep peacefully ……
The lovely Chorong is still dragging its hind legs to greet its owner when he comes home! It’s heartbreaking to know how to behave …..
After the surgery, Chorong started rehabilitation training!
Chorong is now able to stand up in the water. I really hope it will get better soon!
Chorong’s owner did not intentionally train him to stand and walk. When Chorong started to stand to amuse his owner, he thought it was funny and didn’t stop him.
When guests came over, Chorong was more excited to perform this skill and the spectators clapped and shouted, leading to the bad habit of standing and walking a lot, which eventually led to paralysis ……
Why can people walk on their feet but not dogs?
People can walk on two legs because they are born with a skeletal structure so that the spine, hip joints, and hind legs can withstand greater pressure, and the dog’s structure is very different.
The dangers of letting your dog walk upright are great!
1. paralysis of the hind legs and quadriplegia
The support of the dog’s hind legs to the body is mainly by the femoral head fits the hip joint (i.e., the pelvic area), when the dog stands, the hip joint will be under great pressure, which can easily lead to obstruction of blood circulation in the hip joint area. When walking upright for a long time, dislocation of the femoral head, femoral head necrosis, hip joint abnormalities, cartilage wear and other diseases are likely to occur.
The dog’s spine is supposed to be parallel to the ground, and its ability to withstand is far less than that of humans. Walking upright will allow the weight of the body to be shared vertically on the spine, which over time will lead to spinal deformation, narrowing of the medullary cavity, compression of nerves and other conditions. In severe cases, this can lead to paralysis of the hind legs or even total paralysis ……
Spinal injuries are not excluded from occurring in the cervical spine (although walking upright usually does not directly affect the cervical spine, but nothing is absolute), and then the most serious can lead to quadriplegia.
2. Urinary function
Thoracolumbar spine disease may also affect the dog’s urinary function, if not normal urination will be a major concern, 48 hours without urination, it can lead to uremia.
3. Sudden death
If the injury occurs very close to the head, such as the first two sections of the cervical vertebrae, serious injury to the brainstem, the formation of heartbeat, respiratory impact, resulting in sudden death.
What if the dog has been trained with or without consciousness to stand frequently?
Found it has these bad behavior, such as standing, we need to promptly correct or cold treatment. No attention and even less reward! No words of praise! No surprised looks!
It is also important to note that many dogs do not walk as upright as the dog in the video. They are more likely to stand up and circle around their owner’s legs and stay there for a long time, which is actually just as important to avoid. Bad behavior must not be rewarded when it occurs!
If you see a dog around you walking upright, don’t clap your hands and don’t reward the behavior, or you’ll just make more and more dogs suffer! Dogs let it have the dog should have the look.
Maybe a lot of pooper scoopers just started pet, many aspects are not very knowledgeable, as the saying goes, “no one is guilty”, it does not matter how slowly we learn, as long as you have a heart that truly loves it.
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