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Phases of telling me it’s time to take a break and take the Archy for a run, preferably to the park
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Zephyr says
I can be your angle
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Or yuor devil
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clocksallzeros · 21 hours
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Couldn't find the dog....
An opening :o
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The saddest beast appears.
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clocksallzeros · 2 days
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[johnny bravo voice] puppy dog
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My friend took this picture of Raava at the beach LOOK AT THIS BABY
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clocksallzeros · 2 days
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@pangur-and-grim
Both of your cats were on my dash???
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Winnie, Dachshund (3.5 y/o), Prince & Mott St., New York, NY • “She’s not shy at home, but she’s a little skeptical on the streets. She’s mostly just a typical Dachshund. Right now with it raining, I could be out here for an hour, and she won’t go pee. She likes the pepperoni on this street. She started to poke at her leash on the door, but really she wants to come out to look for pepperonis.” @winnie_weiner_d0g
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clocksallzeros · 3 days
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pls reblog for sample size etc
I make occasional useless polls :)
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clocksallzeros · 5 days
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They are just like me forreal
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clocksallzeros · 6 days
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Not in the closet or out of the closet but a secret third thing:
Standing in the doorway and sniffing the air
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clocksallzeros · 8 days
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Yeah
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happy anniversary to this
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clocksallzeros · 8 days
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happy anniversary to this
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clocksallzeros · 8 days
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ok here’s all my rambling thoughts about the future of dog breeding. ignore if it pleases you!
caveats: i am not a dog breeder. i am not involved in dog breeding in any capacity. i have a strong interest in the dog–human relationship and the continuation of that relationship. i own purebred dogs. i have absolutely no animal-related academic qualifications.
so. i think the future of dogs is to move away from dog BREEDS. i think dog people really struggle with this. purebred fans struggle because they instantly have a negative response because they adore their specific breed. mixed breeders also struggle with this because still the focus is on BREEDS and mixing them. and then you have all that shelter dog rhetoric which seems confused in itself by the desire to continue to have dogs but the opposition to dog breeding of any kind (pure breeding is bad but mixed breeding is also bad and registered breeders are unethical but backyard breeders are also dodgy).
i have read lots of different dog books. some published before the real Victorian dog breeding explosion (early to mid 1800s) and some published much later (mostly the 90s to now) exploring and documenting the origin of the dog and the current use of indigenous or primitive dogs. so there are people doing what I’m saying ALREADY, TODAY, AND FOR ALL OF DOG–HUMAN TIME (see: landraces).
but what all this has told me is that the real focus should be TYPES. to look at this, you really need to put aside the concept of dog BREEDS as we know them today. dog BREEDS today are defined by hyper specific breed standards that list in extreme detail what the dog should look like and, to a lesser degree, how it should behave. put that aside.
according to Kim Brophey there are 10 families of dogs (i like her categorisation, it makes sense to me). they are Natural Dog (or spitz), Sighthound, Scenthound, Toy Dog, Guardian, Gun Dog, Terrier, Bull Dog, Herding Dog and World Dog (or pariah). using this as a base, then we would jump into TYPES.
so for example. in early sheep and cow centred Australia (early 1800s on), they needed to come up with dogs that would suit the climate and the work. this meant they developed regional variations of Herding Dogs, taking collies (a type) and bobtails (a type) and anything else they had, and refining that into a heeler (type) and a kelpie/koolie (type). it makes sense to me to have these kinds of variations around general principles of environment, working style, temperament, coat, size, ears, tail – that’s how it’s always been done! with TYPES, you could still end up with hundreds of variations. but the key difference to what we currently operate under would be that TYPES have no hyper specific breed standard and they can interbreed whenever necessary while maintaining a general look/working ability.
take one of the breeds i own – papillon. under this proposed model, dogs that look like this would be Toy Spaniels. and when you go looking for a breeder of Toy Spaniels, different people would breed slight variations – up ears or down ears, shorter muzzle, longer muzzle, taller or shorter. however, the focus would be maintaining an open gene pool and producing healthy dogs while still having a general type and a range of reasonable predictability. that is the key difference here. no standards, no stud books. no discussion about “freaks of nature” because a dog bred with another dog. the sport of conformation would have to also radically change in this scenario. but it’s not like you can’t evaluate structure and form of any dog. if conformation must continue, it could change.
contrary to most dog people i tend to run across, i don’t think we should get more specific when thinking about dog breeding, i think we should get less specific. i understand that some scenarios require specificity, but for the most part we as humans should accept that dogs are as varied as we are, with general predictable traits. and our approach to dog breeding should probably be, IN MY VIEW, to find the dog TYPE that is most suitable for our situation, but still accept the individual characteristics within each dog and that no dog is totally predictable nor should this be expected or desired.
so what i am saying is not NEW. it’s just what people did before the Victorians got weird about it.
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clocksallzeros · 9 days
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The Lundehund outcross project is going strong, and the first 2nd generation Norrbotten-outcross was born last week! A perfect litter of two males and two females, all healthy and growing.
The project is being managed by the Norwegian Lundehund club in collaboration with NKK, N.University of Life Sciences, N. Genetic Resource center, and NordGen. It started in 2013.
The stud book was officially opened to project offspring in January '23 after a membership vote. To achieve registration, project dogs must pass an evaluation by a specialist judge proving that they have all of the characteristics of a Lundehund, and no faults foreign to the breed. So far, three 3rd generation dogs have cleared the hurdle - two with Buhund ancestry (different combinations) and one with Icelandic sheepdog. Two of these dogs have already sired 5 fully registered (and by all accounts purebred) litters of between 3 and 5 puppies - in a breed where litter average is 2.75 and 25% are singletons.
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clocksallzeros · 9 days
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Juice has very conflicted feelings about the neighbor puppies. Every time they ask him to play by yapping and going near the fence, he runs right up.
And then he remembers who they are and makes stinky face and walks away.
Or gets mad that he's near them.
He's just. So dumb.
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