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Post by Bolushi on Jul 6, 2023 22:07:00 GMT
Leaning towards Hardcastle on lupine vs non-lupine. I've grown up around lupine and non-lupine dogs... I'm with lupine dog most of the time. Had Yoshi since I was 6, but also my family members at times have had/have pits, pit mixes and bloodhounds. I have to say, I like just about all those other dogs better. I love Yoshi more obviously, but the other dogs are more biddable, bonded to humans and more expressive.
Lupine dogs seem to be nicer to have in conjunction with another "dog-like" dog.
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Post by Hardcastle on Jul 7, 2023 1:49:02 GMT
Yea, we have different taste which must be related to the fact that we had an approach to animals in a total different manner. I've read a lot of what you wrote on CF, from them on I made up the idea that you've been a working dog man since childhood. Weren't you? It would make sense as Australia is one of the few places where working dog lifestyle is still very renowned. You probably have been through working dogs like Bull Arabs since as long as you can remember. It's been different with me, since I was a kid I got bonded with nature (and wild animals as a rule, first among them leopards) and , later, with pets. No I was a wild animal fanatic first, who just happened to be born into a working dog culture. In rural Darling Downs QLD where I am from it is basically the "heartland" of pig dogs and bull arabs and they are just absolutely everywhere so I grew up actually taking them for granted and not being interested in them at all. I was obsessed with Jaguars first, then also birds of Prey and wolverines and mandrills and salamanders for some reason and etc etc, list goes on, I was changing my favourite animal obsession every other week it seemed. But I just never liked wolves, at all. I sometimes wonder if it is bred into me because both my parents dislike German shepherds and feel nervous around them and I feel the same. None of my relatives have German shepherds. They're like something for other people who would seem foreign and unusual to us. So anyway yeah I was just an animal nerd first and foremost and then had pig dogs all around which I didn't even put in the "animal" category. BUT I did start becoming impressed with my own pig dog as a child and his fighting ability because he got in some scraps and always dominated big time, so then I got curious about that and did some research and learned it's probably because he's part bull terrier, and then I kind of started getting interested in "fighting dogs" when I was about 11. Not "dog fighting", but the fighting dogs, or what I perceived to be fighting dogs. I still kept this interest separate from my animal interest. I was interested in wild animals, and knights, and fighting dogs, and UFOs etc etc. All very separate categories. It wasn't until I joined animal forums in 2001, to talk wild animals, that o started seeing people disrespecting domestic dogs and I'd just be like "weeeellll.... That's not true..." because I knew about capable dogs and it was evident to me these people only new about pet dogs. So I started feeling compelled to defend dogs a little bit. I was known as an orca guy and a lion guy at that time. Over time defending dogs just became the more pressing issue and eventually I'd combine my animal interest and tough dog interest, and then evolve to finally realise "pig dogs" were the coolest the whole time, not just the "part bull terrier" part and I just grew to study dogs in a different way that is more in line with wild animal study. So yeah I'm a wild animal background guy, just wolves in particular never appealed to me and neither lupine dogs. As I've matured I've grown to appreciate some Spitz breeds and herding dogs and etc but still kind of don't really like wolves or German shepherds. Even just the aesthetic doesn't look good to my eye. |
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