Comment by tptacek
1 day ago
If dogs started out as wolves and ended up as English bulldogs, imagine how stupid raccoons will eventually look.
1 day ago
If dogs started out as wolves and ended up as English bulldogs, imagine how stupid raccoons will eventually look.
One of my favorite memes: https://share.google/sQw5gZ6O4wQspS61P
Thank you for this, I needed that.
Most cat breeds still look more or less like their wild relatives.
Most dogs, arguably, too. But there are French bulldogs, dachshunds, and pugs.
Among domestic cats, there are Persian cats and Sphinx cats.
And then you have the fossa.
That's only a pretend cat, it's a lemur-thing really. Wait no, a civet-thing.
Have you seen short legged cats?
That's a recessive trait that is fatal if they get two copies of it. When left to their devices they'll return to being normal cats in a few generations.
Yes and I'd like it to stop
Cats aren't really domesticated. Out of many, many cat species we just found one that's well aligned with humans and it spread with humans to the whole world. No other cat species plays well with humans and none shows any signs of domestication.
Citation required for claim that runs counter to most scientific evidence.
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Probably something like a koala bear
Luckily there are still the extra snouty breeds like Belgian shepherds and various sighthounds.
Well this gave me some fun ideas for AI image generation. There goes the rest of my afternoon, thanks!
And pugs? What would a pug raccoon look like?