• @[email protected]
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    415 months ago

    All 4 of his legs are peglegs? Those pirates are monsters, what did they do to that poor dog??!

    • @taiyang
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      595 months ago

      The pirates adopted him from a pound already like that; also note the pirate hook for a tail, haha.

      • @esc27
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        225 months ago

        Eye patch as well.

        • @[email protected]
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          175 months ago

          He’s just in rough shape all around. If he came that way from the pound, maybe those pirates are a bunch of softies after all…

          • @taiyang
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            85 months ago

            That’s my head… cannon! ;)

    • wander1236
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      85 months ago

      It’s a corgi, so I think those peglegs are serving more as platform shoes than prosthetic legs.

    • @NABDad
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      85 months ago

      Being a dog, he is that much more likely to charge into danger to save his human. With cannon balls flying around, that carries a certain risk.

  • @numberfour002
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    365 months ago

    I had a dog that recognized several spelled out words. Walk, ride, outside, food, ball. Probably some others I don’t remember anymore. It’s amazing how smart and clever some dogs are.

    • The Giant Korean
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      125 months ago

      They pick up on so many cues. It’s amazing. My dog knows we’re going on a trip without her when she sees us bust out the luggage.

    • @[email protected]
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      125 months ago

      We have to change our word/phrase/spelling for walk every year or so with our dogs. It’s currently called “going on an adventure”.

  • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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    135 months ago

    Fun fact: there was apparently no such thing as “walking the plank”. And when you think about it, it would be pretty stupid to have the ship’s carpenter rig up a platform when you could just have the victim jump off the side and accomplish the same thing. There was a punishment known as “walking the yard” where the recipient was forced to climb a mast and then walk out on one of the yardarms (the cross-pieces that held the sails) into the sea. It wasn’t automatically fatal, although the chance of that depended on which yardarm they made you walk - the topmost ones were pretty damn high up.

    • @jaybone
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      65 months ago

      I know once you reach a certain height hitting water is like kitting concrete. But even from the tallest of masts I would think it’s the drowning that kills you, rather than the impact. So again I’d still think why bother making them climb when you could just push them overboard from the deck.

      • @tacosplease
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        45 months ago

        I assume many people fell to the deck before they managed to get out above the water.