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2020-01-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Wolves can play fetch: Cubs shock researchers by retrieving balls just like dogs - proving it's a natural instinct and NOT 15,000 years of training

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Posted by Fred 2020-01-17 00:06|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 So, maybe cloistering and hugging and revealing feelings and 're-education' should be an anathema for real men.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-17 00:20|| 2020-01-17 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The first two wolf litters they worked with showed little to no interest in balls, let alone retrieving one.

It's not automatic across the species. So, not necessarily natural instinct.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-17 06:36|| 2020-01-17 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 All mensa zero and ones so9ooooooooo impressed!

Posted by Vernal Platypus4991 2020-01-17 08:19|| 2020-01-17 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh thought it was about baseball season in the North side of Chicago... carry on.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-17 08:59|| 2020-01-17 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 My cat will play fetch.
If he feels like it.
Otherwise he acts as if you assaulted him with a thrown object.

Posted by Marilyn Noodleman6219 2020-01-17 15:59|| 2020-01-17 15:59|| Front Page Top

#6 My cats played fetch, too — they liked ponytail elastics and the rings from screw-top plastic gallon containers. They also loved to be tossed onto the bed — and would run back across the bed to be thrown again for as long as we’d play.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-17 21:50|| 2020-01-17 21:50|| Front Page Top

#7 I had a cat that would retrieve bottlecaps I shot from a patented fraternity move.

"Bottlecap, Bill!" and he was on it

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-17 21:52|| 2020-01-17 21:52|| Front Page Top

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