However, animal behaviour experts and psychologists (and anyone who has seen a dog be surprised by the pain that biting its own tail causes) agree that animals lack the foresight and knowledge that what they are doing will kill themselves. Besides, dogs love life. You’d have to be eating the best meal you ever had, beating your Tetris high score and landing your dream job at the precise moment of climax to experience just a fraction of the pleasure that a dog feels when he sees a medium-sized stick. These dogs are not in any way intentionally trying to end things.
