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HikingVet

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I’ve seen a 3 y/o have total control of a pit bull. I’ve seen adults struggle to contain terriers. The whole problem is improperly trained dogs.

You shouldn’t leave a kid who doesn’t know how to interact with dogs alone regardless of how behaved the dog (of any breed). Just like you shouldn’t leave cats with young children. As neither are trained.

The attraction to these larger breeds is the same that makes people choose small breeds, or cats, fish, horses, or any other pet . Unless you are choosing it to be a working dog, it’s a companion and there is no accounting for taste.

Treat the animal (train if possible) well and it shouldn’t be an issue unless you choose an exotic pet that doesn’t have a history of being tamed or domesticated (like tigers, or komodo dragons and such)

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Breed specific bans don’t work.

And if you say they do, why is it different breeds in different jurisdictions and why does it not do anything to stop the issue?

It was Rotweilers, then Dobermans, then German Shepherds, then Pit Bulls, now XL Bullies. Pretty sure the fucking NIMBYs would want to ban Great Danes if one was never trained or trained to be a threat.

It’s never the breed, it’s how the dog was treated.

Obvious exception being the Chiauaua (kinda not serious). Unless every Chiauaua owner doesn’t train them.

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IIRC the issue with waterfowl conversion was sudden failure of seals, buoyancy and ballast systems.

The seagull program was hit with the extra problems of salt water

Last leak mentioned the advances have made in the house sparrow model, but battery life is still an issue.

Songbirds aren’t used due to birdwatchers; as outlined in the paper “Avain surveillance: security, counter surveillance, and camouflage” read the updated 2019 version.

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But if you read the avain replacement system experiment paper you would have seen it was of limited success. Sure pigeons and starlings are no longer real, but those were the only 2 successfully replaced species.

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I forgot to add, not fucking serious, because if you click the link it takes you to a tech death metal song.

Really should remember my fellow neurodivergents have issues when you deliver a joke deadpan.

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The conspiracy that ALL birds were drones, not that they made drones out of dead birds.

This is more of a drone corpse

This would actually disprove that ‘birds aren’t real’ and points to a more sinister cabal.

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Well, ot isn’t a political comic, that’s for sure.

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How is this a meme?

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Rom being a mechanical genius again.

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