DOGS

So many beautiful dogs. I like mine handsome with short fur, I voted Foxhound:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/English_Foxhound_portrait.jpg

love the dogs with dreads
komondor aka mop dog

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Komondor_Westminster_Dog_Show_crop.jpg/548px-Komondor_Westminster_Dog_Show_crop.jpg

Bergamasco

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Ortensia_di_Valle_Scrivia.jpg/728px-Ortensia_di_Valle_Scrivia.jpg

Dudes, we have a 17 year old Yorkie who is awesome.

I will not hear of this categorical besmirching of Yorkies.

Forreals.

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Baxter says vote King Charles Spaniel!

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss71/fabrickd/DSC02454.jpg?t=1293052955

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss71/fabrickd/DSC02454.jpg?t=1293052955

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where the fuck is the golden retriever

Short leg dogs forever!

Pepper the dachshund mix barks his approval.

DOGS ARE RATIONAL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FtB9pAMNBBw#!

Also, possibly have a sense of self: http://animalwise.org/2011/08/16/the-yellow-snow-test-for-self-recognition/

I've heard interesting anecdotes about dogs using pretty complex cause-effect logic.

Well just one: A border collie has a favourite spot on its master's bed, but, because numerous other dogs also live in the house, the spot is often taken by another dog. The Border collie goes to the other side of the house and starts barking at nothing until the other dogs come to join and start barking (at nothing) too. The border collie takes back its spot.

I am really, really easily amused:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/540807_10150628087901596_681036595_9797585_1837607381_n.jpg

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wd've voted schnauzer if I'd seen the poll

I think we need to do one of those more complex polls where you list your choices in order.

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i met a dog yesterday named "Sniffy".

No bearded collie, no Tibetan terrier, no credibility.

Also, possibly have a sense of self: http://animalwise.org/2011/08/16/the-yellow-snow-test-for-self-recognition/

I don't think I understand how the pee test relates to self-recognition? Hasn't it always been assumed that animals that mark their territory know their own markings?

Look who greatly improved my typically dreary walk to the tube this morning!

http://soupofturtles.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/der-pup.png

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lti6a4tQwB1qzofaho1_500.jpg

English Bull Terrier is surely the worst dog. I saw someone walking a huge one the other day, it was about the size of a small pig.

I also automatically assume that everyone who owns one of these is a racist.

― Matt DC, Friday, December 17, 2010 8:54 AM (1 year ago)

I must say this doesn't make a lick of goddamn sense.

It is a handsome and noble dog for everyone on the spectrum from anti-racist to racist and in between.

they're weird in that they combine the most non-human head shape of any dog, with some of the most human-like expressions.

This is more or less the best thing I've ever seen, pug related or otherwise:

http://vimeo.com/39808960

NB: Familiarity with this is recommended:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBP9dALcWw

lol one of the pugs in that belongs to a friend form college. Isn't it awesome. My favorite is the one with the knitted Yankee cap.

Oh wait - 3 of them are wearing Yankee hats. I mean the one at the bag in the shots where they're sitting around the table.

my brother now has four dogs apparently, as well as two or three cats icr

English Bull Terrier is surely the worst dog. I saw someone walking a huge one the other day, it was about the size of a small pig.

I also automatically assume that everyone who owns one of these is a racist.

― Matt DC, Friday, December 17, 2010 8:54 AM (1 year ago)

I must say this doesn't make a lick of goddamn sense.

― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Friday, April 6, 2012 3:59 AM (11 hours ago)

this is totally true

not all of them are racists im sure, but if u wanted to create a heuristic for a certain type of person in a certain type of london suburb, it would be 'english bull terrier owners'

i was quite surprised to see a young black women with an EBT (xref with EBJT), except no, she was just walking past and the actual owner was a middle aged white dude who was trying to get it to shit in an underlit area of pavement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWrVQTlonc

What happened when Shellac showed up on "Dogs 101"

come for the dogs, stay for the "math rock" jokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ZF82lcG4o

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/4/10/16/enhanced-buzz-10143-1334089850-5.jpg

Galump galump galump

Taz is awesome.

not all of them are racists im sure, but if u wanted to create a heuristic for a certain type of person in a certain type of london suburb, it would be 'english bull terrier owners'

I went through Penge the other day and I swear that like 90% of the dogs I saw there were English bull terriers.

http://m.gawker.com/5902367/bad-to-the-bone-bordeauxdog-challenges-self-to-stare+down-contest

Lunkhead pooch gets in staring contest with self, loses

Teufel the rescue mix is approaching 1 year with us at the end of the month. He loves his car rides to the dog park.

http://i42.tinypic.com/n1tg9h.jpg

oh. my. god.

River Tam, corgi extraordinaire
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7213/6940226834_cb92f3b6fc_b.jpg
River Tam by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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River Tam by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

If dogs have such sensitive noses, why don't they seem to mind when I fart in their faces?

Unless you're eating remarkably sulfurous food (onions, garlic, egg whites etc) which emit the universally (among animals) reviled hydrogen sulfide upon digestion, the distaste for manure smells is largely just cultural.

Dogs, you've probably noticed love smelling (and among German Shepards, eating) feces. It is a marker of identity as well as signal of what's on the menu locally. I've never lived with a dog that didn't love smelling about the toilet seat to gather information.

This is a very bizarre website. That said, it's probably among the best things on the internet I've seen in some time, if only for the pug portraits.

A man is fighting for his life in hospital after he was mauled by two savage dogs on a beach.

The unnamed victim, 30, was severely bitten all over his body by a pet mastiff cross and a Staffordshire bull terrier on Brighton beach, East Sussex, on Friday morning.

A 40-year-old man believed to be the dogs' owner was arrested at the scene on suspicion of assault and possession of a knife and Class A drugs.

Remember that pic of the older pony-tailed dude cradling his dog in his arms while they float in the lake so the dog can sleep?

WCCO did a segment on him, which CNN picked up.

Warning, this vid will make you cry.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/us/2012/08/13/dnt-wi-man-and-dog-floating.wcco

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/523545_10151058823328208_1399077819_n.jpg

"Yaaaay! Another march!"

Despite my handle, I used to be mortally afraid of dogs and I'm still fairly jumpy around some of them. But I found in recent years that I'm allergic to cats. I'm now much more partial to well-behaved dogs than any cat.