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DNA Study Finds Chihuahuas Aren't Dogs

 
 
Setanta
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 02:52 pm
Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat, is a fascinating work. The wolf pack (at least in the Canadian sub-arctic) only forms to follow the caribou, and breaks up into smaller family groups at other times of the year. I highly recommend the book--the movie done from it is a stinker, however.
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timberlandko
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 02:55 pm
Steve (as 41oo) wrote:
what does jake do when he's serious?


Trust me, Steve, you really oughtn't get him serious. He gets real assertive.
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au1929
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 02:59 pm
I wonder what a DNA study of Bush would reveal? :wink: :wink:
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timberlandko
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 03:08 pm
Agreet, Set, re the book/movie comparison. Another Mowat I found both moving and intersting was A whale for The Killing - again, the translation to screen just plain didn't work. My favorite Mowat is The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. Mutt's gotta have been the best damned dog anybody ever bought for less than a nickle.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 03:15 pm
au

that he's very nearly human
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timberlandko
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 03:22 pm
Certainly more nearly human than a Liberal.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 03:48 pm
Try to behave with as much decorum and good manners as dogs habitually display, Big Bird.

Mowat has another short and excellent book, The Serpent's Coil, which is about hurricanes and men who go in harm's way at sea. I highly recommend it. Few works of non-fiction can achieve the suspense and excitement he evokes in that small book.
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timberlandko
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 03:53 pm
I've heard, and read of, The Serpent's Coil, all good, but never have actually read it. I'll make it a point to do so, once I climb back out of the gutter into which I just recently stooped. Thanks.
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Acquiunk
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 04:01 pm
Setanta wrote:
The wolf pack (at least in the Canadian sub-arctic) only forms to follow the caribou, and breaks up into smaller family groups at other times of the year.


This is a Micro/Macro band structure. The same is used by the Cree Indians (also many other hunter/gatherer groups). The whole issue of environmental determinism is build around observations such as this.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 05:05 pm
Your comment about the Cree interests me Acq--the métis of Manitoba, descendants of coureurs du bois and Cree women, did exactly the same in their itinerant life as buffalo hunters and carters. In 1871 and again in 1885, their ability to form large "packs" and then break up again into their constituent bands when fighting the Canadian government made them a very formidable foe. It was necessary for the Canadians to use heavy force, and the failing transcontinental railway (for which the price was an infusion of taxpayer capital) to deal with the situation.

This can also be seen in the Keltic and Germanic tribes who confronted Caesar--we are, in my never humble opinion, always far less removed from our animal origins than the religionists would have us believe.
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2005 05:11 pm
My dogs have always accepted me in the Wolf Pack. Most of the time I get to be Alpha Bitch.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2005 12:33 pm
Setanta wrote:
Actually, PPD, it was dog--singular. You sure you read that?


't's where the guy's hands freeze and he sets them on fire lighting all his matches at once, ain't it? Can't say I remember anything else.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2005 12:36 pm
Wow, that was days ago...
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2005 12:40 pm
A young greenhorn who is just learning the ropes is on foot headed for a camp in the Yukon, when he falls through the ice into a stream. He knows enough to know he has to get a fire going right away. He does all the right things to accomplish that end--except he starts his fire under a heavily snow-laden evergreen, and the heat causes the snow to slide off, falling onto and extinguishing his fire, which effectively condemns him to death. The dog watches him for a while, and the lopes off to find "other fire and food providers." That's why i said London had a cynical view of dogs.
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patiodog
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2005 12:54 pm
Hmmmm... So which one has the guy setting fire to his hands?
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HofT
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2005 12:54 pm
Setanta - anyone who read "White Fang" and "Call of the Wild" knows beyond any doubt that Jack London truly loved wolfies (a.k.a. real dogs, not to be confused with ratties).

The book you mention isn't among those I've read, but the dog in question strikes me as eminently sensible - who wants to belong in the same pack as a terminal idiot? If the man actually had any shred of character he would have encouraged the dog to move on, this being the blindingly obvious thing to do in his case.
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diananeriad
 
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Reply Fri 4 May, 2012 05:41 am
yes it's a joke, read this fro the Watley Review disclaimer;
The Watley Review is dedicated to the production of articles completely without journalistic merit or factual basis, as this would entail leaving our chairs or actually working. Names, places and events are generally fictitious, except for public figures about which we may have heard something down at the pub. All contents are intended as parody and should be construed as such. We have no agenda other than the depletion of Uncle Zeke's whaling trust fund and the dutiful appreciation of smooth, smooth liquor. The Review is updated every Tuesday or when the hangovers wear off, whichever comes first
trying2learn
 
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Reply Fri 4 May, 2012 05:48 am
@HofT,
My dog is a dog and she is 1/2 chihuahua. Your pic looks like a Siberian Husky?
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trying2learn
 
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Reply Fri 4 May, 2012 05:51 am
@diananeriad,
pssst you do realize your responding to a post from 7 years ago and so am I Smile
roger
 
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Reply Fri 4 May, 2012 07:27 am
@trying2learn,
Hey, good information is timeless.
 

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