Hot take (I'll accept my downward facing arrows, thank you), but people regularly vastly overestimate the safety and docility of "regular" dogs too
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You're absolutely correct. Any dog over about 10kg has the power to cause serious injury, especially to a child or other dog/pet. Greyhounds have a horrendous prey drive and will eat your cat in 2 seconds flat
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Humans too
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If they don't kill you, they may steal your baby.
And then you’re vilified only to be proven right. What a horrific thing that poor family went through
You know that's a true story, right?
Lady lost a kid.
Tropic Thunder may have taught me that, but I'll never not picture RDJ disguised as a dude playing another dude when I hear it.
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This is actually something being debated in Australia. Until a few years ago, Dingoes were considered the same species as the regular dog Canis familiaris. Recent DNA studies have shown them to be distinct, however. So now there's Canis dingo. Only, Dingoes can interbreed with the regular dog, which normally is the test for them being the same species. Maybe that makes them a subspecies?
So, yeah - even we don't know what they are. If they were raised by humans, they are happy friendly doggos. If in the wild, then they're dingoes.
It depends if their progeny can reproduce. A male donkey and a female horse can make a mule but mules are sterile.
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Canis Lupus and Canis Latrans also can and do breed with Canis Familiaris. The ability to interbreed is one test for being the same species but not the only test. Libraries worth of books are out there on the subject and there are lively debate as to where animals fit in the taxonomy.
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B...but...if not friends why friendshaped??????
Don't go to Tasmania either.
Look at this cute guy!
I want to hold him and pet him and love him and- OH FUCK!
Do you pet random dogs on the street? No? Then you won't have any problems with Dingoes. Drop Bears on the other hand...
There are countries where all dogs have owners (mostly on the other side of the leach) and you are always supposed to ask the owners before you pet them.
And then there are countries blessed with really cute street dogs that tend to turn tummy up when you're passing them. You're supposed to pet those randomly.
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Fuck. A drop bear killed my uncle. Horrible creatures.
That's sad, but it's kinda his fault if he wasn't carrying an umbrella 🤷
Umbrellas do nothing, I really wish they'd stop teaching that in schools, it's why we have so many drop bear casualties every year.
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This reminds me, I was once walking into a Melbourne Metro station, and the Aussie mate I was with had been spinning me some web of shit for a while, I finally lost it and loudly announced "LOOK, mate, I'm not gonna believe any of the SHIT that comes out of YOUR MOUTH ever since you tried to sell me on FUCKIN HOOP SNAKES" and a random commuter woman in earshot literally doubled over laughing.
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Yes? Mostly if they'll let me. You don't?
One of my saddest days was waiting to cross a road and a car stopped Infront of me with it's passenger window open and a big Labrador hopped up and was face to face with me.
I excitedly asked the owner if I could pet the dog, as it was literally delivered to my face and she said no like it was a weird request. Thats stuck with me for half a decade already.
I'm sorry for your loss. I will henceforth pet random dogs more often in your honour.
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What? Of course I pet random dogs on the street. You don't?
I mean, I ask first, if they're with a human.. if not, well...
Any wild creature bigger than a rat is an animal you should be cautious of. I mean, I wouldn't pet a wild rat, either, but I'm also not afraid one will attack and kill me.
Wild dog packs roam lots of countries in south-east Asia. Don't fucking go near them. They will try to seperate you from other humans and take you down for a snack.
So weird though when you see, like, a golden retriever in their ranks. The urge to go pet them is too strong. I did a lot of catching myself walking towards them when I was in thailand.
The first half of your comment was good and then it devolved into nonsense. Thai street dogs don't eat people, the amount of fucking rubbish strewn everywhere keeps them fed.
Now will they bite you? Of course, it's a dog.
Even a rat bite can have extremely nasty side effects
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Everything in Australia can kill you
Exhibit A: one of our children's TV presenters
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I'm scared. If it can fool Andy Warhol it can fool me.
I had to look up if Warhol was killed by dingoes. For the also curious, he was not.
I'd heard that one day he almost walked into a room full of them. But it turns out he dingo in there.
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Why friend shape if not friend?
Maybe these are those skinwalkers my Australian friend talks about...
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That shit's dingo.
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