Unusual canine behaviour ...

[kryonlight]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/7932944/Unusual-canine-behaviour

June spent 10 minutes using her nose to bury a dead dog found on Oreti Beach, near Invercargill.

Southland Times photographer Doug Field captured these images at the weekend of his dog, burying another dog.

Field, who was at Oreti Beach, near Invercargill, was walking his dog June when they came across dead hares and a dead dog.

What happened next was unusual, Field said.

June, ignored the hares, but spent the next 10 minutes using her nose, to flick sand up to bury the dead dog.

''There was quite a reverence in what she did. I've never seen another dog do that before.

''I'd love to hear from an animal behaviour expert to find out if this is common,'' Field said.

 

[gymkhana]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/7932944/Unusual-canine-behaviour

June spent 10 minutes using her nose to bury a dead dog found on Oreti Beach, near Invercargill.

Southland Times photographer Doug Field captured these images at the weekend of his dog, burying another dog.

Field, who was at Oreti Beach, near Invercargill, was walking his dog June when they came across dead hares and a dead dog.

What happened next was unusual, Field said.

June, ignored the hares, but spent the next 10 minutes using her nose, to flick sand up to bury the dead dog.

''There was quite a reverence in what she did. I've never seen another dog do that before.

''I'd love to hear from an animal behaviour expert to find out if this is common,'' Field said.

Ive seen it with me own eyes laddie.
a Mother burying her own pups who had just died in a roadkill..all the time she was a howlin. sad and gruesome scene indeed.But a display of a mothers love nevertheless.
A parent should never have to bury their young ones.

 

[tualingong]

maybe the dog was trying to wake up the dead dog?

 

[Oracle]

That is why dogs are man best pal.

 

[chuckyworld]

That is why dogs are man best pal.

Nor do they betray you, they are very loyal...miss my buddy, he is in a better place now.....

 

[Oracle]

Nor do they betray you, they are very loyal...miss my buddy, he is in a better place now.....

Sorry to hear about that. yes no matter what happen, they will still stand by you.

 

[chuckyworld]

Sorry to hear about that. yes no matter what happen, they will still stand by you.

Thanks, we treat him as part of the family, the vet always call him Wheatabix and family last name.....