WHAT IS THE POINT OF A PUG–AND 19 OTHER DOG BREEDS?

Atlas Obscura ^ | October 15, 2015 | DAN NOSOWITZ

[NYer]

My Basset Hound rescue, Lilly, chomping down on a knuckle bone that she took from the Great Dane, Zeus.

[Artemis Webb]

God Bless you for posting this!

[berdie]

later

[Fiddlstix]

Bookmark

[Tax-chick]

Nobody ever says, “What’s the point of (Breed X) of cats?”

[cripplecreek]

My watch dog watches every move I make.

[Chuckster]

doggie ping

[Tax-chick]

Loves vegetables, does it?

Ash the greyhound and Jake the brown tabby used to turn up any time I cut up *anything*. It might be meat!

“Mao!” Jake would say, and then I’d look around to see Ash’s jaws at my elbow.

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[afraidfortherepublic]

A very interesting and informative DOGGIE PING!

[Hugin]

Mrs. Hugin used to call her dog a Golden Receiver because it didn’t retrieve much, but it sure liked to receive treats.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Oh, yest they do. How about those hairless ones?

[Ken H]

Nobody ever says, “What’s the point of (Breed X) of cats?”

The question asked by cats is, "What's the point of humans?"

[Ditter]

Thanks!

[Norm Lenhart]

A Basset is an Asset...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2wpALJHCKA

[AlaskaErik]

I have a chocolate lab and her job is to retrieve the newspaper from the driveway. When it’s minus 20 and the end of the driveway is 150 feet from the front door you really appreciate that kind of service.

[gundog]

Lots of Great Danes live long, happy lives with only three knuckles.

[IwaCornDogs]

"The Greyhound, the great Hound, the graceful of limb,

Rough fellow, tall fellow, swift fellow and slim;

Set them round o'er the earth, let them sail o'er the sea,

They will light on none other more ancient than he."

🐾

[ken5050]

Here's a question for the group...

physiologists have long noted the correlation between brain size and intelligence in animals. Chimps, apes, humans..as one example...Dolphins, and whales...as another...the bigger the brain, the more intelligence is displayed.

Then there's dogs...all breeds do the same basic things...yet a Great Dane has a brain 20x the size of, say a Yorkie...so why isn't there a far greater capacity for intelligent behavior in the larger breeds. What do they do with all those extra brain cells?