Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies?

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• Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’re asking if head trauma can cause brain damage in animals?

  Dogs do have thicker skulls than humans, wrapped in more muscle than humans. Both of these make the skull better at absorbing shocks, so much less force should transfer through to the brain.

  As long as your dog isn’t regularly running headfirst straight into the corners of tables, I wouldn’t worry too much.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also the tiny brain will squish less under its own mass.

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  make a person the R word in animals

  What?

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    nice try

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What???

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought you were a nurse, you tell me

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did not want to be kicked off the site. The R word is offensive, and I have not kept up on the local pc words

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    • Solumbran@lemmy.world ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Yeah, because there are no ways to talk about, let’s say, brain damage, without using slurs. You knew enough to know it’s bad, and yet you decided to still using it, just with a little safeguard against bans.

      Moron.

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What the fuck are you even talking about?

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I derive a great deal of happiness from how often this community lives up to its name

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do you ever walk your collie?

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh man I well we got up to 5 miles a days. And he gets a treat when we come back if he was a good boy. But he will run around slide on some of the hardwood floors nail his head on the coffee table or just going around the house running he’ll hit his head into a wall.

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• DoubleDongle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve heard of it causing dementia regularly in blue-footed boobies because of their habit of high-speed diving to hunt. Every animal I’ve heard of that uses its head to bash things has a lot of special padding in the skull too. I think it’s pretty safe to assume animals can be concussed abd suffer similar forms of brain damage to a human.

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• Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I heard of a dog in our local dog park who ran into a stone bench so hard he broke his skull and died, so please try to teach your dog not to do that. If you reward his head hitting behavior by taking him for a walk he will keep doing it. Try to teach him something else instead, easiest is that he has to stop hitting his head, give you a paw and only then do you take the leash. Eventually (hopefully) he will paw at you instead if running into stuff when he wants to go out.

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• disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All animals that have a brain can experience brain damage.

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• SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Surely the concussions could cause some form of long term mental health issues. Not every animal is a hummingbird.

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