Dogs are weird

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Did you know there was a dog breed made extinct by the industrial revolution?

The Rise And Fall Of The Turnspit Dog, The Extinct Breed That Ran The Kitchen For Centuries

 

[Beebo Brink]

Less an extinction than a merciful death.

 

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Less an extinction than a merciful death.

Hunting is not as common as it was a few centuries ago, but hunting breeds continue to be popular pets.

I rarely come across a dachshund these days that's owned strictly to flush out rabbits or badgers. It's a bit of a downer that as the task for which it was bred petered out, so did the turnspit breed, like it was never offered the experience of enjoying its sunset years.

 

[Beebo Brink]

It's a bit of a downer that as the task for which it was bred petered out, so did the turnspit breed, like it was never offered the experience of enjoying its sunset years.

A somewhat fanciful notion to think of a breed in the same way you would an actual animal.

 

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A somewhat fanciful notion to think of a breed in the same way you would an actual animal.

I can be pretty creatively fanciful.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I think the descendants of working bulldogs would have something to say about it, if they could talk. Through their respirators.

 

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Pit bull ownership is woke pet parenting.