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Just an ID. because I wanted a new one. And yeah I'm a human in this, whee. I've been slowly attempting to develop a human style without giving up in despair.
So anyway I notice a lot of big dog people tend to sniff at toy dog breeds and say things like they're pathetic or 'not real dogs'. No offense to anyone meant, but.. THAT. IS. BULLSHIT. So they're small. How does it make them any less dogs? Dogs are dogs are dogs are dogs; they all emerged from the same blinking pool of evolved wolf genetic material. And what I love about them is the sheer variety of breeds, appearances - and functions. Just because (most) toy dogs don't rescue people or hunt or retrieve or guard livestock doesn't mean they didn't have a purpose. They were bred to provide companionship to the people that owned them, and toy breeds have been recorded as displaying an enormous amount of loyalty to said owners.
Toys make great therapy dogs because they are BRED to just sit on your lap and cuddle. Terriers have oodles of spunk and have been called 'big dogs in little packages', because they were bred to hunt rats and other things. Dachshunds were bred long and low to go down badger holes and face off with FREAKING WILD BADGERS (do you know how formidable European badgers are?). Even the Queen of England's little corgis.. do you know what their first function was? HERDING COWS. And yet the 'spoiled yappy little lap dog' image has been perpetrated so much by the media that little dogs just don't get any respect. They're never made the hero of anything, and if they do it's more for comic effect than anything else. They're always the ones sitting at the back being the comic relief or the brat while the retriever/collie/husky/mutt with a heart of gold/WHATEVER saves the child from the burning building. Which is why I was inspired to do my film, and the whole Toy story comic thing. I'm sick of seeing people bashing toy dogs just because of their size.
And anyway, even if small dogs aren't your thing, why take it out on them? It's not their fault for being selectively bred.
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...so yeah. Love all the big dogs you want, but don't be dissing my small dogs just 'cuz they're small. >(
loves to my Bella there :3 She's an old greyface now though. *sad*
So anyway I notice a lot of big dog people tend to sniff at toy dog breeds and say things like they're pathetic or 'not real dogs'. No offense to anyone meant, but.. THAT. IS. BULLSHIT. So they're small. How does it make them any less dogs? Dogs are dogs are dogs are dogs; they all emerged from the same blinking pool of evolved wolf genetic material. And what I love about them is the sheer variety of breeds, appearances - and functions. Just because (most) toy dogs don't rescue people or hunt or retrieve or guard livestock doesn't mean they didn't have a purpose. They were bred to provide companionship to the people that owned them, and toy breeds have been recorded as displaying an enormous amount of loyalty to said owners.
Toys make great therapy dogs because they are BRED to just sit on your lap and cuddle. Terriers have oodles of spunk and have been called 'big dogs in little packages', because they were bred to hunt rats and other things. Dachshunds were bred long and low to go down badger holes and face off with FREAKING WILD BADGERS (do you know how formidable European badgers are?). Even the Queen of England's little corgis.. do you know what their first function was? HERDING COWS. And yet the 'spoiled yappy little lap dog' image has been perpetrated so much by the media that little dogs just don't get any respect. They're never made the hero of anything, and if they do it's more for comic effect than anything else. They're always the ones sitting at the back being the comic relief or the brat while the retriever/collie/husky/mutt with a heart of gold/WHATEVER saves the child from the burning building. Which is why I was inspired to do my film, and the whole Toy story comic thing. I'm sick of seeing people bashing toy dogs just because of their size.
And anyway, even if small dogs aren't your thing, why take it out on them? It's not their fault for being selectively bred.
</endrant>
...so yeah. Love all the big dogs you want, but don't be dissing my small dogs just 'cuz they're small. >(
loves to my Bella there :3 She's an old greyface now though. *sad*Image size
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I definitely agree with you that both small and large breeds are good. Mutts are great, too! Unfortunately, my dad is of the mindset that bigger is better and thus I was raised with a very large and sweet basset hound and had to listen to rants about evil purse dogs from an early age. Luckily, he's come around since then. We now own a corgi, a crazy little dude who thinks he's much bigger than he actually is. I've seen small dogs save lives, even if it's not necessarily from well or a cliff or something of the sort. Smaller sizes are often an advantage! I've seen Teddy (the corgi) use his height to nip and pull bigger dogs down to his level when wrestling and playing. He also tries to herd them, but that' beside the point. Thanks for posting this 