• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
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    2 days ago

    Mut. Dog breeds are a recent (last few 1000 years) invention of humans. When dogs intermingle without intervention they all end up looking like dingos basically.

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      10 hours ago

      More like the past few centuries. You’ll notice that, if you read the Odyssey, Argos was just a fucking dog, and in pictures from Victorian dog shows, the now weird-looking breeds still look normal.

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      2 days ago

      In Mexico, all the dogs looked the same, kind of like this as I recall.

      This does also look like a red bone coonhound in part to me though but not sure.