Hot take (I’ll accept my downward facing arrows, thank you), but people regularly vastly overestimate the safety and docility of “regular” dogs too
You’re absolutely correct. Any dog over about 10kg has the power to cause serious injury, especially to a child or other dog/pet. Greyhounds have a horrendous prey drive and will eat your cat in 2 seconds flat
Pitbulls also have the issue of being abused at higher rates then other breeds. It’s not all genetic
If they don’t kill you, they may steal your baby.
And the media and courts will ruin the next 20 years of your life as we harass you over your dead baby.
Meanwhile dipshits on the Internet laugh about your dead baby 30 years later.
Have you ever considered people make the joke because of Seinfeld and no inherent knowledge of the actual situation that took place in Australia?
I came to the comments expecting Seinfeld references and am only just now learning it was a real thing.
Have you ever considered, even without contemporary context, you’re still making a joke about a real life baby being killed?
In the year 2033
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say is in the pill you took today
I see it as the same as the saying “If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s black, fight back. If it’s white, goodnight” when referring to what to do when around bears. Yes it is comedic and yes it is referring to being mauled to death by a polar bear. Sure there’s an argument to be made about being insensitive to the victims of polar bear maulings but that’s not the purpose of the statement. “dingo ate my baby” is pretty clear cut on the meaning. Don’t leave your baby alone where it can be eaten by a dingo, some people will find that funny because it kind of is ridiculous and horrific that this actually happened.
You know that’s a true story, right?
Lady lost a kid.
Tropic Thunder may have taught me that, but I’ll never not picture RDJ disguised as a dude playing another dude when I hear it.
This is actually something being debated in Australia. Until a few years ago, Dingoes were considered the same species as the regular dog Canis familiaris. Recent DNA studies have shown them to be distinct, however. So now there’s Canis dingo. Only, Dingoes can interbreed with the regular dog, which normally is the test for them being the same species. Maybe that makes them a subspecies?
So, yeah - even we don’t know what they are. If they were raised by humans, they are happy friendly doggos. If in the wild, then they’re dingoes.
It depends if their progeny can reproduce. A male donkey and a female horse can make a mule but mules are sterile.
They are not, it’s just some breed representation thing, and they certainly look more dingoey than a Jack Russel, but at least in the United States, it’s likely to be trace amounts. Source, I own two, but admittedly neither have had any sort of genetic test so I guess my hearsay is as good as yours…I should find out, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they had up to a quarter dingo somehow.
Canis Lupus and Canis Latrans also can and do breed with Canis Familiaris. The ability to interbreed is one test for being the same species but not the only test. Libraries worth of books are out there on the subject and there are lively debate as to where animals fit in the taxonomy.
Canis familiaris is a subspecies of C. lupus as of 2005. There is a push to distinguish it as a distinct species but that is not the current consensus.
“Testing” for speciation is pretty silly, tbh, because it’s an arbitrary distinction no matter what. Our placement of rigid definitions onto the constant gradual process of evolution is always going to have edge cases and outliers. So we give things useful labels and move on until we have better tools (DNA analysis has been great) or have need of better definitions.
Does dogs being wolves do anything for the general public? No, but that’s what common names are for. Does the distinction of Canis lupus familiaris help scientists right now? Probably. If not there’d be a stronger push to change it.
So Australia just had evil stray dogs that adapted to the extreme Australian environment like every other evil thing in Australia, meanwhile in Russia you got stray dogs riding public transportation and learning to scavenge and beg. It’s all the environment.
Species is a social construct and debates like this prove it. People can’t agree what the line between different species is, because the line is socially constructed.
There is no scientific debate in what a species is you dingbat. Sexual reproduction is the qualifier. Anything below is up for additional qualification.
You’re being reductive, and I don’t think you believe the logical implications of what you’re saying. You don’t think horses are the same species as donkeys. And if you meant viable sexual reproduction, you shouldn’t have spoken so simply. Furthermore, your model rejects the speciation between homo sapiens and homo neandertalis, which is silly.
B…but…if not friends why friendshaped???
Don’t go to Tasmania either.
Look at this cute guy!
I want to hold him and pet him and love him and- OH FUCK!
🤣 Nothing about either picture of that looks cute. It looks like a monster rat.
And you haven’t even seen them in action https://youtu.be/H9IK-HEdaXg?t=761
