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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
I tried to rehabilitate a dangerous dog and failed and now find myself with another one (thankfully MUCH less prone to biting). “regular” dogs are one abusive/neglectful adolescence away from being unsafe
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Humans too
That has more to do with owners than breeding.
Both, for sure.
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With the notable exception of pitbulls.
Pitbulls also have the issue of being abused at higher rates then other breeds. It’s not all genetic
It’s not all genetic, just largely so.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/dog-attack-statistics-breed/#sources
You’re half correct.
Pitbulls, Staffordshire terriers, Bullies etc, are all variations of same or similar breeds. These breeds are viewed as ‘tough’ and are treated and trained as such by their owners. They also aren’t treated like family dogs by these people who buy them for their tough image either.
You get a few generations like this, a couple idiots who don’t desex or seperate their dogs on heat and you’ve got the beginning of a problem.
I’m Australian and in animal control, bull breeds are always number 1 for attacks every year but working breeds are VERY close behind, think Cattledog, Kelpie, German Shepherd etc.
If you look at the skewed breed ownership statistics, there Staffys and Bull breeds get a bad wrap from being incredibly popular and very poorly taken care of.
Gotta love when they don’t bother to normalize their statistics so it’s basically just a question of human population density.
Pitbulls, bull terriers, Staffordshire terriers etc are no worse than other dogs. I work in animal control, it’s a big misconception.
No. They just often have shit owners who either want them to be aggressive or habe no ideas about dogs but think pitbulls are cool
If only regular people could id pitbulls. No really it hard for average people to do that. Really compromises all our data.
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.
As do most people. Deceptichum is just unable to grasp a concept like time. Or that not everyone who lived in that era even knows it’s a real thing.
And a lot of us who were around in the 90s also used “gay” as a casual pejorative without really understanding it. It wasn’t right then and it’s not right now and most of us grew up and realized that.
The key is thinking, “dang, that’s messed up actually” and changing. Not “it’s just a joke, geez people are so sensitive.”
You joked about how half of US states outside of the cities aren’t worth visiting. You joked about how everyone in Florida is crazy. Is that not messed up, generalizing whole groups of people like that? Or are the jokes about people you disagree with ok?
Using Gay as a negative is bad… because it impacts a whole group of people. We aren’t directly making fun of the kid specifically, but joking about the situation. Making a joke about the kid, wrong. Obviously. Joking about a dingo eating a baby? Funny. Because it’s not about a person or who they were, but about a shitty situation.
Get off your high horse. Take a joke.
I said “Florida is looking sketch lately”, which anybody paying attention to DeSantis should recognize, and I stand by that most US states outside of cities and parks are largly undifferentiated swaths of farm and suburb with no unique reason to pick one over another. Neither is a joke, nor are they about whole groups of people.
You aren’t joking about the situation, you’re parroting a joke written after Lindy was pardoned. It’s a tired Australian go-to reference like “throw a shrimp on the barbie” but instead of just being inaccurate and a stereotype it’s also rooted in a specific and very personal tragedy.
Decades later authorities determined a dingo really ate the baby
A murder investigation in the NT is like a blind guy looking for his sunglasses
Have you ever considered, even without contemporary context, you’re still making a joke about a real life baby being killed?
You realize humans have made jokes about terrible things, pretty much since language was invented? And that making light of horrible situations is a coping mechanism?
You can make jokes about anything you want, as long as it’s funny.
Woah, sorry Mr. Sensitive pants. How do people know it’s a real life baby?
Care to write out a list of all the things society can’t joke about?
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40 years :( sorry
Alright then, let’s extrapolate, 40 years?
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.
Nobody has been thrown in jail and dragged through a media circus over a polar bear mauling. Lindy and Michael Chamberlain had their lives ruined after a traumatic loss. It’s not the same.
And then you’re vilified only to be proven right. What a horrific thing that poor family went through
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.
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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!
That thing looks like a devil.
And indeed that’s what it is. Of the Tasmanian variety.
Ah yes the ones that spin around real fast and make a miniature tornado.
Aww, he’s yawning 😍
incomprehensible noises and spitting intensify
Would pet.
And it would be the last time you would pet anything with that arm again.
Yeah ngl that thing looks ugly as hell
🤣 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
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.
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.
This is the good stuff.
I didn’t know 1957 was only a few years ago
In the scale of human lives, no. In the scale of human history, yeah. In the scale of planetary or universal history… it was a few seconds ago.
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.
You’re a dumb cunt.
Harsh, but true.
Wolves are also nice doggos when raised by humans.
Holy shit, that looks so much like my Shiba
That’s a content dog, right there.
You might say that OP is a content creator
Lol nice.
Do you pet random dogs on the street? No? Then you won’t have any problems with Dingoes. Drop Bears on the other hand…
Fuck. A drop bear killed my uncle. Horrible creatures.
This reminds me, I was once walking into a Melbourne Metro station, and the Aussie mate I was with had been spinning me some web of shit for a while, I finally lost it and loudly announced “LOOK, mate, I’m not gonna believe any of the SHIT that comes out of YOUR MOUTH ever since you tried to sell me on FUCKIN HOOP SNAKES” and a random commuter woman in earshot literally doubled over laughing.
What I love about hoop snakes is that they’re American, not Australian.
The drop bears are really getting out of hand. Fuck the Emu war, we need a drop bear war. Drop bears aren’t a joke, millions of families suffer from drop bears every year.
That’s sad, but it’s kinda his fault if he wasn’t carrying an umbrella 🤷
Umbrellas do nothing, I really wish they’d stop teaching that in schools, it’s why we have so many drop bear casualties every year.
The umbrella part still does fuck all and you’d wanna hope you’re a good shot, they go feral when wounded.
They have razor sharp claws that can rip through denim like it’s butter.
Even if they don’t kill you, they give you chlamydia.
Sorry for your loss.
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Yes? Mostly if they’ll let me. You don’t?
One of my saddest days was waiting to cross a road and a car stopped Infront of me with it’s passenger window open and a big Labrador hopped up and was face to face with me.
I excitedly asked the owner if I could pet the dog, as it was literally delivered to my face and she said no like it was a weird request. Thats stuck with me for half a decade already.
I’m sorry for your loss. I will henceforth pet random dogs more often in your honour.
Devvo, bet the dog was sad about it too.
What? Of course I pet random dogs on the street. You don’t?
I mean, I ask first, if they’re with a human… if not, well…
B…but…if not friends why friendshaped???
Any wild creature bigger than a rat is an animal you should be cautious of. I mean, I wouldn’t pet a wild rat, either, but I’m also not afraid one will attack and kill me.
Wild dog packs roam lots of countries in south-east Asia. Don’t fucking go near them. They will try to seperate you from other humans and take you down for a snack.
So weird though when you see, like, a golden retriever in their ranks. The urge to go pet them is too strong. I did a lot of catching myself walking towards them when I was in thailand.
The first half of your comment was good and then it devolved into nonsense. Thai street dogs don’t eat people, the amount of fucking rubbish strewn everywhere keeps them fed.
Now will they bite you? Of course, it’s a dog.
Even a rat bite can have extremely nasty side effects
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Well there fleas give you plague so not petting them is not enough.
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But thet cute uwu
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they’re*
Edit: I took another look at the above comment and I think “there” or “their” both work here. I don’t ever recall seeing a sentence where that was true and my mind is a little blown.
Say /s right now
(i had to look at it twice but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be their, not they’re lol)
Yes that’s correct. Not saying /s because I don’t think it’s needed here.
Edit: see my edit in my previous comment
Fair enough, that was supposed to be a meme opener just so I could comment, but I deleted the /s right before the opening parentheses, and now I’m worried I came off like a complete asshole to you! My apologies! I meant that in a joking meme tone, not in a tell you what to do way! Sorry about that!
Ohh! I see what you did there. I don’t think tone is conveyed well through text, especially to me lol. I appreciate the clarification.
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I don’t think I’d be too afraid of a raccoon either though
You should be. They may not be able to mortally wound you but they’ll definitely give you rabies.
A raccoon can absolutely mortally wound you. We’re just fleshy bags of blood and they have nasty sharp claws. A slash in the right spot could be fatal
Well, if we’re considering “right-spot” scenarios then basically anything can kill you.
How could a worm kill you, or a cricket, Mr. Scientist?!?
I could probably figure out a way to choke on both
It’s an alaskan bull worm
Not sure what that is, but it sounds scary
I’m scared. If it can fool Andy Warhol it can fool me.
I had to look up if Warhol was killed by dingoes. For the also curious, he was not.
I’d heard that one day he almost walked into a room full of them. But it turns out he dingo in there.
A dingo ate my babby.
That actually happened and the media ridiculing the woman was a second tragedy.
I did not know that. Dang that was a messed up read. https://www.snopes.com/articles/366073/dingo-ate-my-baby-quote/
Also, the Snopes article doesn’t mention it, but indigenous tribes had know dingos could and would take human babies, but mainstream media/authorities ignored them.
Yet, the false story will remained in the public consciousness thanks to totally not hack comedy writers.
You know that’s a true story? Lady lost a kid. You’re about to cross some fuckin’ lines.
I guess almost half a century ago is too soon for some outrage addicts.
CAN I PET THAT DAWG!?
Can I pet that DAAAAWGH?!?!??
Why friend shape if not friend?
I had a dingo. RIP Lucy girl
My dog is actually descended from dingos. Part of their breed.
What’s their behavior like?
Ive got a pariah dog too but not dingo. Incredibly prey driven. Does not bark much unless she has a reason. Very bad with other dogs, tests their reflexes if given the chance. Used to be bad with people and food possessive but she’s good now after years of training and socialization.
Also is an escape artist. Climbed a nine foot chain link fence and chewed through stucco.
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Like a dog. It comes from their Australian Cattle Dog heritage. They were interbred with dingos.
They say that about the Kelpie, not the cattledog perse.
Maybe these are those skinwalkers my Australian friend talks about…
Nah that’s not them, you’ll know a skinwalker when you see one.
That shit’s dingo.
