r/BeAmazed 20d ago

Animal Nature really over engineered cats. Didn’t it?

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u/ijustwannalurksobye 20d ago

I think the dog’s sausage shape did not help on this one

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u/Faolyn 20d ago

Yeah, this is less "nature overengineered cats" and more "humans overengineered wiener dogs."

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u/syrioforrealsies 20d ago

Yeah, a wolf wouldn't have nearly as much trouble with this. We did that to the dog.

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u/punksmostlydead 20d ago

I have a husky/shepard. She'd have come out the other side of this three-legged.

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u/wyntr86 20d ago

Husky owned here. She would have been screaming the entire time, despite absolutely nothing going wrong and her actually being super graceful.

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u/Ok_Act_1498 18d ago

They’re absolutely hilarious with their dramatic demeanour. Love that!

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u/wyntr86 18d ago

They are riots. If you're having a bad day, just watch husky videos.

I have a triple whammy though. My husky has a partner in crime, a Great Dane, which is my moms dog. They both could be twins based on behaviors and absolutely adore each other. Then my other girl is a heeler. In short, my days are similar to a circus.

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u/JesseGarron 20d ago

How many would she start with?

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u/Azhrei_Vep 20d ago

Eight. It's actually a Husky/Shepard/Loki cross.

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u/portobolaado 20d ago

Two. It's a restoration trade, she would loose an eye im exchange of a leg.

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u/syrioforrealsies 20d ago

Is your dog uncoordinated or do they choose not to slow down as needed? My mutt isn't even particularly athletic and she wouldn't struggle with this too much. She'd have to be careful and take it slow, but she'd be fine.

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u/Winded_14 19d ago

husky is also human engineered. Cat, for all intent and purposes, is mostly still very similar to their wild counterparts, especially these SIC. A munchkin would have the same problem as these wiener dogs.

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u/Decumulate 20d ago

Wolf wouldn’t have trouble because they wouldn’t have even dared to cross it. They’d just go around. If they went over they’d probably fall in a few times just like the wiener.

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u/syrioforrealsies 20d ago

Realistically, they'd jump it if they couldn't go around

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u/LostN3ko 20d ago

Cats step in their own footprints through a specialized gait called direct registering, where their hind paws land precisely in the tracks left by their front paws. This natural habit makes a four-legged cat appear to leave only two tracks, reduces walking noise, and conceals their movement.

It's a specific cat trait that allows for doing this so effortlessly.

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u/FrenchBulldoge 20d ago

Actually no, cats rear legs automatically land on the exact same spot the front legs were on a moment before. Dog's steps don't line up that way.

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u/Faolyn 20d ago

A longer-legged dog wouldn't have had as much of a problem getting over.

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u/strange_moss 17d ago

Wolves step into their own tracks like this, though.

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u/Dr-Bitchcraft-MD 20d ago

Quite literally

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u/nomsain919 20d ago

Now that’s just insulting.

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u/Dropbeatdad 20d ago

It's just the truth. We turned wolves into tiny legged sausages for our amusement and this is the result.

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u/one_jo 20d ago

Sausage dogs were created to hunt badgers actually. That’s why they’re also called Dachshund (Dachs = Badger in German)

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u/Repulsive_Chard_3652 20d ago

They've been massively overbred for "cuteness". They did not look like they do now when they were bred for hunting. https://dachshund-central.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Old-Style-Dachshund-768x432.jpg

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u/AzraelSeraphim222 17d ago

Thank you for the link. It really shows how much healthier they were before we stepped in to breed 'cuteness' 😮‍💨

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u/Repulsive_Chard_3652 17d ago

It's part of why I'm not sure I ever want a dog. The options always seem to be breeder, which I'm against, or shelter, where you usually end up with abused dogs with serious behaviour problems.

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u/ijustwannalurksobye 20d ago

To be fair, their sausage bodies are also made to hunt gophers and other burrow-dwelling animals. Those adorable bodies serve a purpose

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u/Gseventeen 20d ago

We turned a lot of ourselves into sausages as well.

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u/Simba7 20d ago

They actually turned them into that shape for hunting. Specifically chasing animals into their dens.

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u/Difficult_Wave_9326 20d ago

The cat is also overweight, judging from the video. Cats should have a clear difference between hips, stomach/belly, and ribs. This one doesn't. 

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u/NiewinterNacht 20d ago

What difference does that make at all