There was a thread a {couple years back|don't read the comments lmao} about a study in behavior differences between dog breeds. The behaviors that actually reliably differ by breed are:

Retrieves objects
Howls
Avoids getting wet
Points

Which notably doesn't include whatever people keep saying about pitbulls.

[–] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

lol which dogs avoid getting wet?

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

we've got three dogs and two immediately jump in a body of water they see and the other goes on pee strike if it's so much as drizzling outside

he does love the snow tho bizzarely

[–] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

Cat dogs

[–] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

I have a husky who hates water. Think it's a survival instinct where water means freezing to death. Also, double coat means they hold a ton of water

[–] ksynwa_from_lemmygrad@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's that formatting with {|}? First time I'm seeing it. Is there a name for it? Doesn't look like superscript.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

AFAIK it's a very recently implemented feature and as I understand it it's derived from a Japanese script style convention for annotating text with different characters (I think? I'm just inferring from context here).

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Also look up Stanford, horse breeding and eugenics. Horse and dog breeding are literally where the idea of human eugenics came from.

The book Palo Alto goes into detail about this.