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Oh to be a tiny cozy puppy

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Man but the notes on that post really are just tumblr showing they have no idea how anything works.

"report to your local animal abuse people not to cops" local animal abuse people would be animal control. Animal control officers are cops.

"rabies is treatable if you go to the doctor right after the bite" rabies is PREVENTABLE, not treatable. There is no cure for rabies. If you suspect you came into contact with a rabid animal, you need to get a series of rabies vaccinations to prevent the virus from taking over your body. This is not a treatment and it only works if you go right away. If you show any symptoms of rabies it is too late.

"rabies is fatal in animals but treatable in humans" rabies has a 100% fatality rate and is not considered a survivable disease at this point in time. If you contract rabies YOU WILL DIE. The "treatment" in humans is called the Milwaukee Protocol, only 14% of people survive it, and it leaves you with massive brain damage and effectively turns you into a vegetable. You do not return to a normal life afterwards. Very few people who have undergone this process are capable of doing more than laying in a hospital bed and eating and breathing through tubes. To my knowledge only one person was able to live a semi-normal life after years and years of ongoing therapy and was not expected to have made it even through her first year after treatment.

I cannot stress enough how rabies is unlike any other disease you may be thinking of. It's required on a federal level in this country to vaccinate pretty much any domestic animal that comes into contact with wildlife for one reason and one reason only: it is not considered possible to cure rabies and the spread of disease would threaten all mammalian life including our own if allowed to continue to propagate.

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Colonialism is an ongoing problem in the purebred dog world and i just wanna take as second to talk about the national dog breed of Israel, the Canaan dog. Because here's the CKC's blurb on them

I have no doubt and am not denying ancient Hebrews lived with these dogs, but the Canaan comes from a stock of landrace breed native across the Levant and it has also gone by names such as Bedouin Sheepdog or Palestinian Pariah Dog.

Organized breeding of the Canaan began in the 20th century from captured Palestinian dogs (i would also point to the wording of 'redomesticating' used here, implying the feral pariah dogs were in some way not domesticated, which i think is disingenuous phrasing.). If you look up the Canaan, most sources you see on them explicitly brand Canaans as an Israeli breed, neglecting or downplaying any history they have with any of the other countless peoples or cultures in the region this breed has coexisted with across millenia. There's even an archeological site with ancient remains of canaan-like dogs was found in Ashkelon, located just 13 miles from the Gaza strip.

The developer of the 'modern' purebred Canaan was "ardent zionist" Rudolphina Menzel, who trained attack dogs for the IDF:

What really gets me about this story is how this native landrace breed was taken and trained to guard colonial settlements from the very people they lived alongside, there is something so twisted about it..

This is unfortunately nothing new in the world of dog fancy. There are many instances of explorers and settlers importing exotic new dogs from their travels, establishing a breed club, and then claiming stewardship over said breed without any involvement from the local peoples they took or bought them from. I'm not sure what to leave this on, i just think more people should be aware of these 'softer' forms of colonialism and how domestic animals can play a part in colonialism and nationalist narratives.

Anyway, long live the Palestinian pariah dog/ Bedouin sheepdog!

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Cisco wasn’t sure what to make of the snow at first, and he had some trouble finding sticks in it, but he came around!

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they really are so cool!, also super cute as puppies

today i learned about Romanian Carpathian Shepherds and i'm fascinated

#oh hey im romanian so fun seeing these here posted by someone who isnt romanian! #they are every bit as good a dog as they sound #just. capital D Dogs u know #these pups belong to my friend :)

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every day i vastly overestimate how much the average person knows about dogs

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SCHEMING

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Geneva had her first “photoshoot” today

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btw idk if it needs to be said but #freepalestine #ceasefirenow and i will obviously stop supporting e*rovision lol 😃 so if ur of any other opinion here unfollow me bc i do not want u here

#sorry ive been inactive but i stand pretty strongly on this

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Kiss kiss fall in love

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i like it when dogs are a little blonde like this who did your highlights little man

#lucky #dogblr #handsomedogs #residents #dogs #ok now. we are snowed in today! #i got a new job doing laboratory and pharmacy work instead of clinic #so i can recover from my major depressive episode lol #anyway doing ok so far! im learning to be a human again:) #lucky leia and i are saying hi :) #still dating my wonderful girlfriend #we are planning to move together to europe when shes done with her things and im done with mine :)soon

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Hi I am a good girl!!!

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Oozing

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One thing about me is I really like dogs,

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