David Ian Howe
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Pit bulls are sweet to me. Like I've had so many sweet pit bulls in my life that I've met and like they're fun to play with. And so the huge head and their big mouth is so cute to me. But if the breeder is breeding them for those specific nefarious reasons or whatever their origins used to be, that line of dogs might just tend to be more inherently aggressive because that's what they're bred for.
But other pit bulls can be bred to be completely sweet. So... Yeah, it's very sticky. I'll say that. But again, just how intrinsic dogs are in our culture in terms of like even with like a culture war or like different ethnic identities and stuff dogs are associated with.
Yeah, exactly.
Shepherds can also have behavioral issues just like that. There's a lot of shepherd rescues. Malinois, for sure, because they're not... A Malinois, to me, is a supercomputer. It's just a flesh robot.
Like in terms of a biotechnology, but you know, if they're not properly exercised and like use their brains the way they're supposed to, like they can be aggressive and it's not just pit bulls.
Yeah. Especially a mental simulation that could even help more than exercise sometimes.
I have ADHD as well. So it's like, I remember hearing that and I was like, yeah, your husband is me. Yeah, exactly.
I can answer that specifically for the Americas. A lot of dog skeletons that are found, their spinal column, like the Oh man, my anthropology friends are going to kill me. I can't remember the word, but the part of the spine that sticks straight up in a dog that sticks straight up in our back, the thin part of the vertebrae. Spinous process. There's a lot of times it's like curved pretty badly.
And I would have thought that was from wearing packs or like pulling things that causes that, you know, pathology. But another study was saying that it just seems kind of natural. Like over time dogs, it'll happen to them. I will say like the Saluki is bred naturally.
a long time ago or the greyhound and they have that giant thoracic cavity for that pulmonary system to pump the blood through its body to run fast. So if you're breeding a dog to have this giant chest to be like a race car, like if you have something so positive, there's probably also negatives back then too.
Yeah, I would say it's one of those like We were too worried if we could. We didn't stop to think if we should kind of situations. I just think I butchered the line. But yeah, that Victorian era, there's just dogs of all shapes and sizes and pugs and mastiffs, like a bloodhound in that sense too. We just get a little overzealous with breeding to be so different that it can probably cause issues.
And I know dachshunds too, being so long, have that spine issue too. I've seen a German shepherd mixed with a corgi on the internet. It's adorable, but that poor thing's hips and spine must just constantly be in pain. So I would say like the Victorian era for sure, and maybe even in Roman times.
I saw a doc where they had people watch a horror film and then people watch like a just regular happy film and collect their sweat. And then they like put that test tube up to a dog's nose. And if it was like a fear response from the horror movie, the dog kind of like freaked out and cowered a bit. And then in the other one, like their tails would wag and stuff like that. So there's that.
I know dogs can like tell when I'm anxious like my dog does for sure. You can tell when you're crying and stuff like that.
I did just see a neuroscientist say that there's a machine they built, like an AI thing, that can tell if you're pregnant and can also tell who the father is, which is wild to me. But I imagine since dogs' scent receptors are so much, like by the thousands, stronger than ours, that could be possible.
Oh, that's what the dingo is. It was a domestic dog. If not a domestic dog, it was a dog that followed humans around after domestication to Australia. And then once they got to Australia, realized there's a whole continent full of kangaroos without a dog-like thing. The thylacine was there.
But dingoes kind of pushed out the thylacine in a sense, too, because they're just so effective at hunting. They even introduced a dog to Australia that then became a wolf because it just had such abundance to hunt and do all those things. And that's a standard yellow pointy-eared dog.
That would be a whole episode. But it's a very political... And then indigenous versus, you know, colonist debate. And there's a lot of stigma against dingoes, kind of like there's stigma against wolves here. But the science to me kind of says that, like, they've been in Australia for upwards of 10,000 years. The environment has had enough time to adjust to them.
So they are kind of natural in that sense. And the same thing that indigenous Australians are natural to the area in that sense, too. So I don't know. It's a very politically charged debate.
All the time.
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