Dogs and guns
Via Brutal Hugs, comes this Slate comparison of Dogs and guns:
In a span of decades, we bred ferocity into Dobermans and then, with equal deliberateness, bred it out. We treated dogs like guns. We designed and bought them for protection, then complained when they hurt us. When cities banned pit bulls, we bought Rottweilers. It was as easy as replacing an illegal assault weapon with a legal one.
I’ve been saying that for years. Read the whole thing entitled FrankenFido Our creepiest genetic invention, the dog for a good history on how dogs are basically our first genetic experiment and how humans have sort of screwed dogs up.
December 15th, 2005 at 1:08 pm
“good history on how dogs are basically our first genetic experiment and how humans have sort of screwed dogs up”
some dogs gentic code has been screwed up beyond belief, others that are fairly new to the ACK are quite nice.
For example the anatolian shepherd – large (above 115), light eater (lamb and rice), very smart, long life span (12-14, if i remeber correctly).