Comment by tptacek

3 months ago

If dogs started out as wolves and ended up as English bulldogs, imagine how stupid raccoons will eventually look.

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.

  • 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.

Well this gave me some fun ideas for AI image generation. There goes the rest of my afternoon, thanks!

Luckily there are still the extra snouty breeds like Belgian shepherds and various sighthounds.