• @UnderpantsWeevil
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    495 months ago

    Giving my kid a borzoi puppy, then every day pinching his nose and tail and tugging on them a little bit, to convince my kid I’m stretching the dog out like taffy.

  • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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    475 months ago

    I just read War and Peace for the first time last year. There’s a section in the book involving hunting with borzois, and the narrator mentions that one of the characters paid a family of serfs for his best dog. He didn’t pay money to a serf family - the cost of the dog was a serf family. Imagine that sort of bullshit if you’re a serf.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      175 months ago

      Sounds right. There’s that British family that was caught underpaying their staff do much, they spent more on their dog

    • @xantoxis
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      115 months ago

      Fuck’s sake those serfs can be trained to hunt too, what a waste

    • @[email protected]
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      85 months ago

      if i’m going to be sold for anything, a dog is probably the only option that wouldn’t make me feel miserable

      so long as they take care of the good boy

      • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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        75 months ago

        Well, it was a good girl in the book, but don’t worry - she wasn’t treated like a serf.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 months ago

          i mean as much as anyone can be these days, yes?

          not sure what about that joke is worrisome given the general standard online…

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            Nothing about the joke is worrisome to me.

            I just had a hunch I should ask. False alarm, I guess.

            Have a nice day :)

  • NegativeNull
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    255 months ago

    Borzoi’s are the sweetest dogs too. Like most sighthounds, they are very gentle/calm/lazy

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      105 months ago

      I have never met a more gentle dog than an American Doberman Pinscher. They look big and intimidating, and I guess they can be if you’re their enemy, but they’re so very sweet and gentle with their family. They have such soft mouths and they’re so considerate and polite with their people.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    TBH that puppy doesn’t look that normal. Basically every breed’s puppy looks something like this:

    Round head, short snout. Chihuahuas, Pitbulls, Labradors, all the same shape. Obviously size and fur patterns will vary, but if I saw an infant puppy with such a long snout as OP’s image I would be very much aware that it would have an enormously long face as it developed.

  • @[email protected]
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    145 months ago

    I once matched with a girl on a dating app who told me that borzois’ faces look like David Duchovny’s and I can’t unsee it

  • @SPRUNT
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    05 months ago

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