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POV: Juice finds you and you are the size of a bug
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He tries so hard
#ohhhh my god hes so cute wtf#brb coming to steal Sham#also i think Juice and Yoshi are like#the exact same size and thats charming to md
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Behold a story of companionship
Of loss
Of discovery
Of hope
Of betrayal
Of disappointment
Of crime
Of forgiveness and the desire to make things right
The end
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I wish there was a bigger tulip field near me but this is also ok when you use it right.
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11km today and this is the best photo we got out of it
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Tristan suffering baby's sister's affection, and exploring how far the seatbelt lets him reach in Auntie's car. These are entirely unrelated, of course (they actually are!)
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sometimes life is very boring and no one will throw ANY frisbee at ALL and all you can do is curl up in your new pallet bed and bitterly eat pieces of your headrest
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gotta say, the "id dog breeds" gimmick is fun and all but the thing about referencing biological categories is that they're so much messier than the car model IDs that are being riffed off. especially with anything with a poodle coat, given.... the thirty years of doodles meaning that there are a hell of a lot of crosses out there.
I would not personally presume to confidently announce the breed of any poodle/doodly thing without having hands on it, because a) crosses with all manner of options are so common, b) so much of the common heuristic for recognizing poodle vs doodle is a matter of haircut, and c) it's so hard to assess anything about the structure of a dog with a loose, rough coat that obscures the dog's shape. Frankly, after getting Benton's Embark back, I also don't make confident pronouncements about any mix.
Yeah, that dog is approximately half American Bully. Guess that from looking at him, folks. (I routinely flabbergast dog professionals by encouraging them to guess his breed makeup.) I still regularly read the r/DoggyDNA subreddit, and it's just astonishing how many ways there are to build a mutt and how hard it is to accurately predict anything about a mixed breed dog's ancestry without additional information--especially when a lot of colors pop out in mixes in some rather unexpected ways. (For example: Golden and Labrador retriever mixes have a pronounced tendency to pop out as brindles, bewildering everyone concerned. There are a lot of dominant black pit bulls. And about 75% of anything with a wire coat is poodle, not any kind of terrier.) There are so many ways to get a black and tan or sable dog. If you want to claim expertise, you have to know what the limits of your knowledge are and when you need additional information to make a call.
Identifying purebred dogs which come out of a controlled gene pool is obviously much easier, although you need to be aware how various populations within breeds have been selected and what those populations typically look like. Even then, you need to be careful: it's so easy to assume that conformation shots show you what a given dog breed looks like, but that's usually not the case: both pet and working populations have often diverged substantially from the conformation ideal, not least because conformation standards are a fucking social construct. We have to distinguish between socially constructed and natural categories when we try to learn how to run these kinds of identifications.
more broadly, dogs are living things and therefore they don't come with model numbers or unique serial numbers. "Breed" is a social construct that shapes their populations because, basically, our human culture says it should. You can identify a car very accurately because cars are human-made inanimate objects, and each category of car is essentially identical within the category at construction. That's how mass-produced items work. They lend themselves so nicely to this kind of ordered assignment and identification.
Animals do not work like that. You can strive for uniformity all you want, but mutation is going to pop up and fuck with your carefully uniform lines when you aren't looking. For example, just look at the C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N mouse substrains, which have been bred in total isolation from any other mouse population in brother-sister matings aiming for total uniformity since the 1930s... and were noticed having developed divergent characteristics by the 1950s. Turns out that substrain matters.
And you can't tell without running some very specific tests, let alone from any marker so plain as a static picture.
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In the beginning, when I was so scared and desperate about rehabilitating Ben, I shall always remember one incident in Karen Pryor’s clicker training class. I was standing with Ben on a leash in front of the gym’s entry doors, listening to Karen teach. All of a sudden, two women entered the room with their Australian Shepherds. Ben flipped out, lunging and barking at the dogs while I struggled to hold on. Mortified, the women hurriedly left the room, apologizing. I was shaking and trying to get Ben back under control as Karen approached. Holding back tears, I remember her placing her hand on my arm and saying quietly to me: "Emma, it’s OK. It’s only behavior."
— Emma Parsons, The New Click to Calm: Solutions for All Dogs In a Challenging World (2021)
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I’ve been rewarding Waves for snuggling on command and now she does this when I ask at night and it’s the best
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Pippa, Rough Collie (4 y/o), Prince & Mott St., New York, NY • “She’s nervous right now – she’s from the suburbs, so she’s trying to figure out what to do. But she’s mellow and very friendly. Collies are excellent family dogs – they love kids, they’re very affectionate. People are afraid of the fur, but we love the fur. Our dogs are like our whole world. Basically the entire house’s art is dog art of some sort. We have a lot of photographs and various signs about ‘hug your Collie.’ All the cheesy stuff.”
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