• @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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    462 days 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 day 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

    • @Duamerthrax
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      162 days 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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      102 days ago

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

  • @UnderpantsWeevil
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    462 days 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 days 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

  • NegativeNull
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    242 days ago

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

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      102 days 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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    2 days 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.

  • @SPRUNT
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    02 days ago

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