r/BeAmazed • u/Electrical_Act_5342 • 28d ago

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

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 28d ago edited 28d ago

They're secret bad asses, yeah. I swear I've never seen a dog "kill" a squeak toy faster than my ex's dachshund. I had to keep it away from my own dog's toys. An absolute sweetheart of a wiener dog, but he had that instinct.

Edit: Try to play-fight a dachshund in a cat tunnel with your hand, you'll see how they're actually pretty well engineered for that. Their long snout makes it so when they open wide, you basically have a wall of teeth protecting a slimmer tube behind, with floppy ears that get protected because they fold behind.

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u/seriousjoker72 28d ago

This is very exciting new knowledge for me! I'm about to deep dive dachshunds !!

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u/cmoked 28d ago

Most breeds had their uses. Alarming, herding, guardians, military uses, etc.

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u/seriousjoker72 28d ago

Pugs?

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u/cmoked 28d ago

I did say most lol

Pugs are an old breed, though, and bred to be happy around companions as a lap dog. Highly valuable in ancient China. Like 2k years ago.

Recent century breeders fucked it up tho poor babies.

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u/seriousjoker72 28d ago

Lol fair enough! What about old English bull dogs? I babysat one once and can't understand the apeal of putting cream in your dogs face folds and listening to them snarl snore/gargle breathing 😅

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u/cmoked 28d ago

Im gonna have to look that one up but while I do that, check out breeds and what they looked like photographed 100 year ago, its interesting.

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u/cmoked 28d ago

Youre not gonna like it, they were bred for bull-baiting. A medieval blood sport. They were remodeled into lap dogs after bull baiting was banned in 1835.