Posted by Dinah on July 18, 2009, at 15:51:34
In reply to Re: Are sheepdogs born or made?, posted by Phillipa on July 18, 2009, at 13:04:15
It's hard to say with my early life. Certainly there was objective upheaval. But I don't remember feeling all that upset by it. My mother was a constant in my world when I was very young.
Maybe it's because of my involvement in dogs that I tend to favor nature over nurture. Even with dogs, experiences tend to influence how temperament is expressed. And of course humans have more ability to make choices that don't leave them at the mercy of their genes. But the similarities between dogs and a parent they may have never seen is just too strong for me to come down anywhere but on the nature side of that debate.
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