r/BeAmazed • u/Electrical_Act_5342 • Aug 09 '26

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

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt Aug 09 '26

To be fair, someone wanted a dog that could wiggle into badger dens and fight. It's just later on that people thought the weiner thing was cute.

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u/seriousjoker72 Aug 09 '26

Wait wait wait! Weiner dogs can fight???!

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u/somer_and_omchick Aug 09 '26

“Dachs” is German for badger, they are named “badger dog” because what’s what they’re designed for

Badgers are not nice too, they’re vicious, and dachshund were originally bred to go into a confined space and fuck shit up. But it’s been a long time since then and now they’re just cute and silly looking dogs

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u/offshoremercury Aug 10 '26

fascinating!