How soon to run? How far?
Its a mechanism for survival. Run away to run away another day.
There is a PBS program that discussed the origin of the dog which evolved from wolves. The wolves had to make a decision about gathering food from dump sites and being scared away by predators and human activity. The wolves that were able to live a bit closer to people passed that trait on to their offspring until they eventually became a great ally to mankind. Scientists have conducted this kind of social experiment on foxes with similar results. The dog is believed to be Asian since researches found that the greatest variety of dog DNA traces back to the Asian region. Researches account for the dispersion of dogs throughout the world with a belief that the dogs followed their human counterparts – and in some areas the terrain and environment is so inhospitable that people would not be able to survive or survive well without the aid of dogs.
Now, lets return to the thought about running away in the sense of how soon and how far anybody have any stories how it was helpful to her or him?