Terriers, unlike natural predators that humans have not fucked with, do not hunt because they are hungry Their instincts have been warped into a genocidal urge to find any small burrowing thing in the vicinity and rip and tear and rip and tear until nothing moves anymore
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Now that we've mostly moved on to higher-tech, less bloody means of large-scale pest control, terriers are obsolete for their original function, and their more-domesticated descendants get these feelings out by just being very annoying
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It's just funny how heavily we've fucked with dogs, especially compared to cats Terriers are a Bio-Organic Weapon They literally have Dalek minds, "EX-TERM-IN-ATE, EX-TERM-IN-ATE"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kstraith
i feel like humans never quite forgot that they domesticated dogs for practical reasons, while cats just domesticated themselves and we let them for the aesthetic :p
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Replying to @IamJadehawk @kstraith
My favorite thing is how retrievers are the most "exactly what it says on the tin" animal we have We designed a whole-ass animal just to retrieve shit for us
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A golden retriever's whole damn life revolves around a human indicating they want something retrieved and then running off posthaste to carefully retrieve it And they're deeply emotionally invested in doing it too
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The Rick and Morty jokes about creating a sentient being with feelings and emotions just to pass you the butter is kind of redundant We already did that, to creatures of flesh and blood, centuries ago
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Or take greyhounds That's not even a "practical" purpose, we just got really into making dogs race and betting on it So we made a dog that stores up all its energy for the day and expends it all in one big sprint that lasts exactly as long as a typical race
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Which then completely depletes its batteries and sends it into "power-saving mode" for the other 23 hours, 50 minutes of its daily existence
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my personal favorite is the now-extinct "kitchen dog," which existed solely to run inside of a little wheel and turn a spit all day
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Domesticating cats for specific purposes is much more difficult, but some Chinese gourmands did in fact create a subspecies of lop-eared cats designed just for eating But that was just really breeding them for docile incuriosity and fatness
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Replying to @kittensnotkids @perdricof and
They're extinct now because eating cats was never, despite what racists think, all that common or popular But a sufficiently wealthy civilization will make a delicacy out of eating anything
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