I'm slightly sympathetic to her because I have never met a dalmatian who wasn't an obnoxious, high-strung, mean little fucker, but the fictional dogs from every iteration I've seen (and probably the original novel?) are nothing like that and don't deserve to be a coat.
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I mean they can't help it, they were bred to be "carriage dogs" and to spend all day running alongside carriages barking at everyone else's horses to keep traffic safely distanced With all that pent-up energy and no horses to bark at they get restless
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The reason Dalmatians are associated with firefighters as a mascot is in the olden days fire engines used Dalmatians to keep horses from blocking their way on city streets
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When you realize that "Dalmatians are what fire engines used to have before they invented the lights and the sirens", everything about their personality falls into place
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The whole thing about how dogs are sentient beings and also engineered tools made by humans So purebreds are kind of tragic Their thought process is one single sentence being repeated over and over
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A Labrador retriever's single thought is "What can I get you, sir?" And a Dalmatian's single thought is "Get back! Out of the way!"
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Aaaakshully, I think you'll find a lab's brain says "I love it !!!". What is *it* ? Fuck if they know, but they're PUMPED about it.
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Yeah a retriever's intended job of retrieving is basically the dog version of what retail workers and waitstaff do ("What can I get you, sir? Yes sir, right away sir!")
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They have been programmed with and sincerely hold the "customer service mindset" they try to program humans with when you get any one of those jobs with a vest and a nametag
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That's why people who aren't really dog people like myself can find it kind of exhausting They *don't stop* asking "What can I get you, sir? Anything else, sir?" like they're a waiter desperate for a big tip or who's being watched by their boss
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"Are you SURE you have everything you need, sir? Is there NOTHING else I can get you that might make you happy? Just say the word!" Tail wagging, unbroken eye contact, big customer service smile from the training video
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I do think about how science fiction has raised the question of the ethics of creating robots - this terrible responsibility that comes from creating artificial beings whose purpose is to serve you and can only be happy by making you happy And like this *already happened*
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A border collie’s constant wish is to keep things organised. And to follow the rules. Don’t know what the rules are? Try to work them out!
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