An animal documentary unlike any you have seen before | The Wild Side of Dogs | Full Film

foreign ly we live in a world separated from nature blind or in denial of the consequences of our actions animals populate our dreams our nightmares our Legends we love to look at them and when they look at us we cannot turn away are we drawn to something we have lost something we still long for we speak to them and think they understand but do we understand them is there a wild side to them that we don't want to see is that a dog or something still a bit wolf-like living with us in our homes this film is not about domestic dogs locked in homes or on a leash controlled by humans we look at the wild side of dogs and hopefully learn to better understand and appreciate that animal closest to us as an animal and not just as some reflection of ourselves [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] in the first part of this film we spend one year with a shepherd and his Sheepdogs to observe the oldest continuing relationship and bond between dog and man thank you hey and whether it can be called love or not there is a pact of shared affinity and responsibility between humans and these dogs and hear that bond has been broken in the second part of this film we spend one year on the streets dogs the first domesticated animal and the one that has shared our homes and lives for at least fifteen thousand years are often no longer welcome when modern cities transform yards and houses replaced with apartment blocks and there is little room left for pet dogs we see how these previously domesticated dogs abandoned to a precarious and uncertain life on the street survive the year how they struggle to find food shelter and a mate we take a long hard and unsentimental look at the wild side of dogs that part of the natural world that we are so close to but rarely actually see barbagia perched in the high Central mountains of Sardinia Italy is one of the least populated areas of Europe known for its strong-willed independent people and famous for its pendants here sheep herding has existed continuously for several thousand years the next day is the transomats the annual winter migration of sheep from higher to lower pastures were they and The Sheepdogs will spend several months away from the farm Angelo whose father was a Shepherd had to leave school and become a Shepherd himself at the age of 11 when his father passed away when we arrived he had two Sheepdogs both female pepineda is Angelo's Main sheepdark and one of the best he has ever had pastoreda which means little Shepherd is half sheep dog and half-hunting dog and though she can guard and herd sheep well she doesn't always take orders from Angelo and often runs off to hunt or explore look s Angelo has led pepineda keep one puppy from her last litter and she won't leave the farm on the transomats unless Angelo takes the pup with him [Music] oh okay [Music] Angelo reassures pepineda that her pup is safely in his hands and with pepinetta sent on him the new pup will be accepted by the other farmed dogs right don't let me know it is he locks away the path for the night so he can bring him along on the next Day's Journey pastorada is in heat and is tied up for the first time because Angelo needs her for the transom months [Music] all right she refuses the advances from all the Farms male dogs including bobaredu one of Angelo's hunting dogs when in heat Pastor redder often leaves the farm and wanders for days before returning the last time she brought back URI a small male dog who's the only one she will let mate with her foreign have a chance to mate before the next Day's Journey when a female moves her tail to the side it's assigned to the male dog that she won't resist him and that she is ready to mate issue what's up for those of us who live in cities far removed from nature we see little animal sex births or deaths and too often these totally natural processes shame or shock us nice thread [Music] U cannot force himself on pastoreda rape doesn't exist among dogs instead he hangs around in case she gives him a chance to mate with her [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] we will never know what dogs and wolves are saying to each other when they howl but we do know that a howl is the sound they make to communicate over long distances [Music] [Laughter] I know your brother all right good morning talking about yeah try as he might Angelo cannot convince pepineda to enter the barn with her pup she has always lived her life outside with the sheep and is not used to being inside shortly after their arrival a neighbor's dog has noticed that pastoreda is in heat the tradition of the transomons provides the sheep with better pastures throughout the seasons but it also offers the opportunity for The Sheepdogs to mate with new dogs and form new Gene pools purebred dogs almost never exist in nature instead reproduction between different breeds creates better mixed Bloodlines for their offspring and has helped assure dog success as a species [Music] foreign s and while staying in the lower winter pastures a new male sheepdog appeared when pepinedo was in heat he stays with her and Angelo adopts him naming him pastoredu the male version of little Shepherd now for the first time in our filming there is a male sheepdog on the farm Eep has died in the middle of the night of natural causes [Applause] good morning hi yeah that's the redu like walls and some dogs hides his meat for later and then he returns ah there is back I don't know everybody unless Angelo divides up the food pepineda would have to wait until Pastor redu has finished and hopefully left her something unlike domesticated dogs fed a bowl of food at the same time and place these dogs struggle for food never knowing where the next meal will come from and the highest ranking animal usually male picking the food first foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] interested [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] forever [Music] please later the same winter pepineda and pasta redo have had a litter of pups Angelo kept one a female he names totoreda to raise as a new sheepdog foreign like all pups she learns early the social science of communication between dogs and towards humans to turn and show her side or lower herself is a sign of non-aggression and sometimes of play oh um [Music] most people no longer see the blood and Slaughter of animals for food or other uses even though many people still eat meat wear clothes and live with products made from animals here on the farm life death and birth is normal and everything is used nothing wasted foreign naked Zola is one of Angelo's hunting dogs hmm he puts her in the barn for the night so she can give birth inside but she will have to share the space with another dog's pups that night Angela was alerted by one of the dogs that a sheep had stayed out in the field and had just given birth [Music] hey come on up here [Applause] [Music] now that naked Zola had given birth to her first pup she makes it clear she will no longer tolerate being bothered by someone else's pups you know hey hey [Music] she can't revive one of her pups it's common for there to be still births in a litter [Music] all right [Music] [Music] [Music] all right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh foreign has clearly become the highest ranking male on the farm and makes a big show of Defending and marking his territory it won't last one day he will be too old to perform his various duties and a new dog will take his place perhaps his own son foreign has learned to take her food away and eat on her own meanwhile one of her and Pastor redu's new pups though still small and young is trying to keep all the food for himself nice bed and his older sister tortureda has to rely upon Angelo for her share throughout the years rain and cold sun and heat we shared some of Angelo's life a life in the natural world that most people and dogs have lived for thousands of years but far fewer do today is uh hey please Angelo understands this world where animals and humans all depend upon each other and especially appreciates his dogs whom he sees and treats as the animals they are and who are his loved and loyal companions all cities eventually go through the same process of urbanization in Romania Nikolai shashesku the former dictator demolished many of the city's houses and Gardens and built apartment blocks boulevards and the infamous Palace of parliament the second largest building in the world after the Pentagon all part of a nationwide program to create the new capital and to modernize cities throughout the country from the urban space to the suburbs Gardens were limited an agriculture banned and Bucharest city streets filled with tens of thousands of stray dogs some people defended the dogs and wanted to protect them and others resented their presence or were afraid of them when we arrived in Bucharest tensions were high the street dogs were being rounded up by the authorities to be euthanized and some were being murdered by private Vigilantes and disposed of in garbage bins or the city dump some of these dogs live on their own and have difficulty surviving the winter or wrist being caught by the authorities like this one in front of the Palace of parliament who may not survive the winter others band together in loose groups and with more protection in numbers they have a better chance at surviving yet one of this group has just died hit by a car or from the cold or disease and some gravitate towards people perhaps sensing that being close to humans will give them a better chance at surviving thank you for all living things the concerns of immediate survival food and safety come first but then there is the question of long-term survival reproduction and the continuation of one's genetic material most domestic dogs are neutered and spend their lives locked in apartments taken out only on a leash but for the street dogs when it comes to reproduction when they find a female in heat they caught her relentlessly and compete with any other dogs if needed in the hope that she will allow them to mate with her [Music] the dog with a broken collar may be an escaped domestic dog or a failed attempt at turning a street dog into a pet we never learned which and always found him living on the street he has been following the female in heat for two days waiting for her to become ready the female in heat and some other dogs have been taken in and cared for by the construction workers on an extension of the Bucharest Metro they feed them their leftover food and in turn the dogs guard the site the male with a broken collar can't enter the site because it's not neutral territory like the street and belongs to the construction site dorms the smaller white dog despite his size is the most assertive male at the site foreign [Applause] the next day the female in heat is still not ready other neighborhood dogs have now scented the female and the large white and brown one is a serious new threat no problem the dog with a broken collar is intimidated by the new dog's size and confidence and dares not attack him and instead vents his frustration on a weaker dog [Music] but within minutes the new dog has gained access to the female in heat and pushed the others aside without a fight good [Applause] after all that time and hard work staying close to the female the dog with the broken collar doesn't fight the new Challenger it's actually a very typical dog strategy if he attacked the new dog and was beaten he would most likely have to leave and give up having any access to the female but taking a strategy that allows him to hang around gives him a chance to mate with the female if the new dog has a lapse of attention or is overwhelmed by fatigue [Applause] the next day the female in heat is ready and she no longer resists advances for the moment the large white and brown dog is still the strongest and closest to her laughs just as totoredu the young pup in Sardinia moved to the side and lowered herself to show non-aggression these gestures are Universal in dogs and here too are communicated in the same way whoa it's not always clear to humans why some female dogs choose a monogamous mate like pastoreda and URI in Sardinia other dogs like the black female in Bucharest are promiscuous and will allow any male to mate with her female dogs can have multiple fathers for the same litter Evolution's way of maximizing the chance of passing on good genes to their pups and nature has evolved both dogs and cats to be able to do this oh just across the street the little white dog from the construction site appears to have a problem with his rear right leg which he uses to see if he can gain attention and sympathy from the workers at the site foreign [Music] dogs are Masters at faking and manipulation in this large apartment block a group of neighbors have allowed a female with a new litter and an older male pup from her previous litter to live in the yard foreign is upset and defends his territory and the younger pups while fatita runs away and is comforted by one of the people who take care of her and who had agreed to our filming when bayat is also reassured calms down and from then on always accepts our presence this was the first time in all our filming on the streets of Bucharest even while in the midst of a dogfight that a street dog acted aggressively towards us a grew up surviving on the street and ran away rather than guard the litter a boy at and these pups were born and raised in that yard and were not really Street dogs they were more like any territorial domesticated dogs but with a large and very public front yard haha [Music] a few days later bayat is alone with his younger siblings under the watchful eye of some of the neighbors were not happy with their presence foreign Queen a one of the main caretakers of the dogs and several others have pooled their money together to have fatiza spayed across town at a good Hospital foreign other clinics to a cheaper and lower quality procedure sometimes resulting in complications or even death for years the city's policies regarding vaccination sterilization or euthanization of stray dogs were either unclear unenforced or mismanaged leaving even well-meaning people like Kawana with few options to help foreign was more grown up still an adolescent the expression where they stretch back their lips and show their teeth and gums is a dog's way of showing each other and humans that they are not being aggressive and sometimes also being submissive is the titsa like most dogs would spend the hot summer days just lying around and conserving her energy and at night when it was coolest the street dogs were more active oh foreign work was still underway and the construction site dogs well entrenched in their relatively comfortable home a black female that was in heat earlier in the year was there but with no sign of any of her puppies [Music] physical nature the next year we found a new litter at petitsa's those who have now grown up bayat and his new mate Juana and friends still take care of the dogs despite disagreement with some of the neighbors across the street from bayat and fatitas is a small apartment block occupied primarily by Romanian gypsies also known as Roma one man had just bought a new set of furniture for his living room and had put the old set outside for a litter of stray puppies and their mother foreign one theory of how dogs were first domesticated is that some wall stayed on the outskirts of human camps and lived off human waste and remained uneaten from hunting as they had defended their food source from animals including other wolves humans grew used to them and a kind of mutually beneficial balance was established and with time they evolved into the first dogs another theory is that stray or orphaned wolf puppies were taken in by humans Maybe by children and evolved into the domesticated dog perhaps both of these theories are true like many thousands of years ago when dogs first started to live off humans and began their long journey through history with us Bucharest Street dogs were also surviving through the help of many kind people to see how they lived under harsher conditions we went searching for a place where they had little or no contact with people [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] outside Bucharest in an abandoned city dump lives a pack of stray dogs we see many Frozen carcasses they die of natural causes disease or the cold or were they killed and dumped there and how many are buried below the surface [Applause] within the first year a quarter of new pet dogs are given away to another home abandoned or turned into an animal shelter where most are put to sleep and every year there are millions of dog bites rarely from stray dogs mostly by people's own pets they understand us very well a skill essential to their survival but how well do we really understand them foreign [Music] on the streets of Bucharest we never felt in danger from any of the street dogs most were not even afraid of us but if they were they would just run away only the domesticated dogs on leashes or behind fences would be aggressive having their own territory to defend laughs after we left Bucharest and stopped filming bayat with his own litter of pups was as territorial as ever with the circumstances unclear bayat bitter neighbor and Juana later found both he and fatitsa poisoned to death on our last day of filming in a touching reminder of Angelo and Sardinia a Romanian Shepherd passed by with his flock of sheep he had no use of dogs he told us without explanation and for these dogs in the dump the lives of the well cared for Sheepdogs in Far Away Sardinia had no relation to their precarious lives we are the loneliest of species it may look as if we are connected to each other and to everything but are we really maybe we are more disconnected than ever before definitely from nature but perhaps also from each other and even from ourselves in search of companionship we turn our pets into humans sometimes even into our children but eventually children grow up they learn to talk back make their own decisions and hopefully leave home our pets don't they live with us in temperature controlled homes eating processed foods denied many of their Natural Instincts dogs were the first domesticated animal and the one we have lived closest with for well over fifteen thousand years perhaps our affinity and closeness to them is not how much they resemble us but how much we resemble them they are survivors highly adaptable calculating manipulative and wonderful animals and they know very well how to find their way into our homes and our hearts one thing is certain no species has so sealed their fate to ours as dogs have done they have followed us to all corners of the earth and depend upon us more than any other animal does and we perhaps on them [Music] addition [Music] foreign [Music] 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Length: 69min 13sec (4153 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 22 2023