BITCH I’M FUCKIN SCREAMING WHAT THE FUCK THAT’S SO FUCKING CUTE
I’m surprised he’s okay with that amount of coverage, especially around his face, but that’s definitely a happy-doggo run, and clearly the dog’s been in costume enough to learn the windup-key trick. Must be a really tolerant doggo.
So there’s a program on campus where students foster service dogs and teach them to do things like function and do their job in noisy places.
Today I watched a youngish back lab do a little bouncing motion at his trainer’s hand while they were walking, until she handed him the phone charger she’d been holding.
I love how dog behavior can be so breed-specific. Like, sure, it makes sense to me that broad-stroke things like “this one is more friendly, this one is more alert” can be genetic. But apparently there is a combination of genes that codes for “chase prey animals into a tight herd but don’t attack them.” And a different combination of genes that codes for “run after things, pick them up gently, and take them to a person.” It’s not just training; you can see these behaviors even in little puppies that have never been exposed to the situation before. I think that’s delightful and kind of mysterious.
One of the most delightful things about my roommate’s new corgi is that even though he’s two, he never really had a chance to really run and exercise his herding instinct as far as we know (he’s a rescue). Roommate got him an Indestructible Ball about as tall as he is and he is SO. HAPPY. to chase it full-tilt around the backyard, nipping at it and herding it around despite never having learned to do that, specifically.
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