I have a small mixed breed who is apparently Boston terrier, beagle, and pug. I wanted to do a doggy DNA test, but my ex said he is just 100% pure badness.
I’ve had a ragdoll, a bengal, and a bunch of "American Shorthair"s.
I used to know a woman who would make up names like “North American yodel-hound” or “white-toed chipmunk dog” as the breed for her dogs.
I had an African giant bassist hound
My mother has been searching for one of those since her first run in with one the 70s.
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Are they available for jam sessions?
Different dog breeds were bred to have specific uses though
Half of them to look like something new.
I read somewhere that a dog’s basic genome was much more plastic than a cats: that’s why we have tiny annoying dogs but also large annoying dogs.
With cats you can mostly just have mediumish annoying cats.
Ummm.
Upvoting for Big Guy.
On the other hand, I don’t even know if there’s a word for “mutt” with cats the way there is for generic mixed dogs. When I last moved and got a new vet, and they asked me what breed my cats were and I said I wasn’t sure as they didn’t have any “distinctive” breed and were shelter adopts, they pretty much just said “Domestic shorthair it is then”. Not sure if that’s something particular that’s just common or a catch-all term.
Domestic shorthair is the equivalent of mutt or so I was told! Coat color is its own thing. So I have a domestic shorthair that’s piebald, my mother has a domestic shorthair that has a tortie coat.
Moggy can be used for cats the way mutt is for dogs, but I think it might be more common in the UK? I don’t really hear it in the US, maybe cat breeders use it.
But yeah, for vets and rescues it’s just domestic short hair/long hair (sometimes medium hair).
Huh, interesting. To me, “moggy” is just a slang term for a cat, e.g. “who’s a pretty moggy?”. But also, I’ve only once met a cat that was of a particular breed, so perhaps the general nature of “moggy” for me stems from that. (For context, I am from the UK)
it’s just domestic short hair/long hair (sometimes medium hair).
Also: domestic longish hair, domestic asymmetric bob (AKA Karen cat), and Domestic mullet.
Domestic short hair sounds like the aristocracy thought mutt was too common
“Mongrel” is the word, but I’ve barely heard it used.
Pretty confident “domestic shorthair” is the “John Doe” of cat breeds.
I’ve been calling that handsome little feral gremlin, asshole, jerk-ass, mooch best buddy of mine a mongrel for 22 years now, I had no idea I was just being accurate.
I’ve only ever heard that used about people, as a slur.
It’s a slur when used in regards to people specificallybecause it’s referring to people using language normally meant for animals
Yeah, that’s fair, but what I mean is that at some point the slur just takes over. When you hear the B word you no longer think about a female dog. Westerners usually don’t think Buddhism when we see swastikas either.
Moggie.
Based on a dogs shape and coat, you can pretty easily determine the breed families in it. It’s important to know since dog breeds are much more diverse due to their history with humans around the world—most have jobs bred into them. So it’s still good to know if your dog has breeding in it that thrives on exercise or fetch jobs or that sort of thing. Most of those little dogs are for hunting small vermin and are savage fuckers, for example.
Cats it’s mostly one size fits all with a random roll on personality stats.
that cat literally looks exactly the same as mine what
Is that Jambo?
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My friend has a munchkin void. It can go from purr to hiss in a fraction of a second.
That sounds like my mum’s cat. She was a feral, left on the doorstep of the pub.
She’ll hiss and growl at everything, but you just distract her with a toy, then it’s all purrs and snuggles.She has a weird obsession with licking faces, which evolved from biting faces.
As someone who prefers licks, this is good progress
not all dog owners
We have a big, white, mixed breed dog. People ask us all the time if she’s a Great Pyrenees, an English Cream, or what have you. She’s a dog. 100% pure dog.
Is that from Kenshi?
Half life 2
unrelated but MUCH more pressing issue: Kenshi 2 when??
Dog from Half Life 2
That’s the best kind of dog.
We had a farmyard crossed dog that lived for almost 17 years I called him a car-puk-eh because of his lifelong affliction with motion sickness.
one of the dogs of all time
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Not even Garfield?
I’ll care about cat breeds when my cat starts showing that she cares about anything.
Why are the dog owners crying?
