![]() ![]() When a dog does not behave in accordance with her "billing," owners call this a "behavior problem" - the single greatest reason for relinquishment of a dog to a shelter. Since the vast majority of dog owners are not showing their dogs, but adding them to their families, the alleged predictability of personality is problematic. Witness the cases of cloned - genetically identical - pets who have, to their owners' great surprise, quite different personalities. While many owners may see breed-typical personalities in their dogs (we humans do tend to spot just the evidence which supports our theories), there is simply no guarantee that a dog will behave just so. Unfortunately, personality is not genetically determined: just as a person's personality derives from more than her genome, a dog is not merchandise whose behavior (outside of a few hard-wired ones, like pointing) can be predicted ahead of time. Mike Segar/Reuters The Cavalier King Charles spaniel may have a painful condition where its brain is too large for its skull.įinally, breed standards include personality descriptions.
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