Posted on 06/16/2013 4:19:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
GOOD news. Your cat can now take its own selfies with a new, specially-designed phone app.
Snapcat has a black screen with a moving red dot, and all the kitty has to do is tap the dot with its paw, and the app takes a good, old-fashioned selfie.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Bad kitty!
Well, yes, but...
“Pinscher” means “Terrier” in German, and the Miniature Pinscher is a distinctly German breed that originated several centuries ago as an efficient barnyard ratter. The Miniature Pinscher is reported to include the Dachshund and Italian Greyhound among its ancestors, along with the shorthaired German Pinscher.
http://www.akc.org/breeds/miniature_pinscher/index.cfm
Me too, when I saw that Clinton thread. Of course the subject being the Clintons, the unseemly and oxymoronic title made sense anyway.
Better than a "sammy".
I suspect smoothies are to blame. Smoothie creep. That's what this is.
A definition in Henne’s “Dictionary of the German Language” indicates that Pinscher is “borrowed from the English word pincher, meaning one who pinches, nips or tweaks.”
A member of the Toy Group in the U.S. and Canada, the Min Pin is included in guard dog Group 2 in FCI classification along with breeds such as the Boxer, Doberman, Mastiff, Rottweiler, and Great Dane (working trial not required).
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pinscher
I put about *thismuch* stock in the useless AKC.
For instance, the AKC says this of Dobermanns
The properly bred and trained Doberman has proved itself as friend and guardian, As is developed, its qualities of intelligence and ability to absorb and retain training brought it into demand as a police and war dog.
The Doberman Pinscher Club of America, founded in 1921 has continued to this day to foster the breed.
Only recently have they dropped the insane “Weimeraner” connection but still claims the spurious Rott connection.
Herr Gruenig, who actually had more to do with setting the final type of the Dobermann after Louis died not long after his quest began, says this:
http://www.blitzkrieger.com/breedhistory.html
I would tend to believe the people who *were there* versus the subsequent conjectures.
In Europe, the “Pinscher” part has been dropped as being incorrect.
MinPins are ratters and guards, as are German Pinschers.
Terriers are ‘earth dogs’, hence the name.
German Pinschers are exhibited in the working group, not terriers.
“In 1919 the miniature pinscher was introduced to the AKC show ring. At the time, not knowing that it was referred to officially in Germany as the zwergpinscher (little biter)”
It does the MinPin a great disservice to be unceremoniously thrown into the ‘toy group” as it’s truly a hundred pound dog in a fifteen pound body.
[yeah, I know...picky picky picky]
;]
Terriers are often ratters, but I concede that Miniature Pinschers are not terriers. And yes, they are not toy dogs, whatever the AKC thinks.
The AKC is now full of idiots who care more for puppy mill registration fee profits than any ‘breed integrity’.
The picture on my Dobermans’ registration papers look like they are supposed to look...which is not even close to what the breed looks like now.
Yes, bizarrely, the AKC has had that same Dobe on the papers forever.
I think they don’t even look at it.
[judges apparently don’t, either]
/hops off soapbox
:)
That's a good insight. I think you're right!
Well, when you put it that way ...
I don’t like that one, either. It’s very cutesy.
In the same vein, don’t get me started on Yorkipoos, Labradoodles, and Chiweenies, or I’ll run screaming into the night.
Selfie?
Is this yet another made-up word evolving out of prisons and ghettos?
I’m still not used to “meme”. I hate it and it’s probably been around for ever.
Now that its summer
I propose a thread where we can post snapshots of all our Viking kitties and Viking kitties in training. It will be a wonderful break from the news.
And that snap app can eat its heart out because we will have such gorgeous kitties!!!!!
There can be a doggy thread as well.
I’ve never heard of “meme”.
I only associate with humans!
I think it came from teenagers.
Top of my list?
The worst invented word ever?
BLOG
Sounds like someone hawking up a loogie!
(And most of them I read are just as bad!!)
Why not one thread for all?
Sounds like something that Anthony Weiner would do.
Ok
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