let's talk about dogs!

Interesting! That actually makes sense to me. They're very sleek and muscled and have a distinct way of moving, and their coat is short so you don't have to animate hair when you're new to it, maybe? I can see it!

 

yeah that was basically it! The prof's a very serious perfectionist so if we chose a long-furred animal he would make us animate the skin and then animate the fur shape on top of it >w< he did character/effects animation for disney in the 90s. And since they're made to be well muscled you can see the basis for their construction very easily! a breed with less toned muscles and a longer coat it would be hard to tell from sight where the key bones lie and how the muscles lie on top of them and flex. He specifically banned doing breeds with especially weird anatomy, like a dachshund or a bulldog. that skin would be a terror to animate @.@

one of my classmates found this vid on youtube which was super helpful in understanding how the doberman was supposed to work! sorta repetitive but idk not knowing much about dogs i found it p cool

 

What beautiful dogs...! Also, that was a really interesting guide to Doberman show conformation (which can vary between working dogs and show dogs, but it depends on the breed. Some show dogs look little like their working cousins, some don't vary that much).

 

Your dog is so cute omg!!

 

@taxonomicAtrocity oh gosh your dog is gorgeous!!

ive always really liked bernese mountain dogs and st bernards and other big foof type dogs

 

oh god someone on the greyhound forum i'm part of shared an article explaining greyhound 'spooks' w/ dominance theory vocab and a buncha ppl are going 'ah yes that makes so much sense' and i'm over here like 8')

(like okay good on you, dude, for bringing up the genetic component to spooks, but was 'canine autism' really a necessary phrase for you to throw in there??)

 

so i emailed abt a dog and the adoption ppl sent me pix! her name is eureka and they spelled it wrong and i love her. kiiiiinda wanna email them back w/ more questions tbh.

 

look at these very good dogs

 

such good snoofs

 

god, if you'd asked me a year ago, i would've been firm on retrievers being my favorites. but even my retriever-love is nothing next to my love of sighthounds in general and greyhounds in specific. 8D

 

Very good fast nose goblins.

 

I like boxers best. This may or may not be because I myself own a big dumb boxer dog.

 

okay, you can't just say something like this and not follow up with pictures.

 

I DO NOT HAVE PHOTOS BECAUSE I DON'T TAKE THEM. When my mother gets home though I can see if she has pictures of him. Which she probably does since she actually loves taking them.

 

Have a Cute Things My Dog Does story!

I've got a Boston terrier, like I've said, and if he's not supervised in the yard he likes to dig. He also likes to chew, and if you give him a toy with a head, it's destroyed inside of an hour. Anyway, when we have to put him in his crate, he gets a rawhide chew. They take him a while to get through, and he normally only goes in the crate for two hours max, so he normally has a lot of chew left when he comes out. So he will look around the bedroom until he finds some place he can "bury" and hide it. The past few days, that's been the pile of blankets I have next to the hamper that I need to wash. I found this out when I went over there to throw clothes in the hamper and he ran over and unburied it and took it away, because he thought I would steal it.

 

I LOVE DOGS OKAY I WANT A DOG SO BAD but my mum who is also p much my landlady is Not A Dog Person. Not really an animal person in general, tbh, but dogs are really where she draws the line.

I signed up to this site so I could have more pupperoni in my life but like two months after joining I am sad because I have had exactly one replie on my messages D: Just. So many Good and Pure doge. Why can I not meet them? I know I am not experience but I read many books and I will love your dog like my own.

The only dog I have got to pet so far is a two-year-old Bernese Mountain dog called Nelson, and his owner really struggles with him because she has MS and fibromalgia but she can't bear to part with him because he keeps her going. He's not like, aggressive or anything, it's just that he's a very big dog and it's hard to get him to actually stop being OMG EXCITE long enough to heel, especially if you're not Mum. (Mum's partner was abusive and left them a month or so which has added to his anxiety because one of his People just Left and Never Came Back Why.)

Also, my bestie who I don't see often enough used to have a big doofy boxer called Taggart, who we lost to cancer a couple years ago. (He was so adorable. He was one of those that would get EXCITE if you just talked to him in an excited tone or even just went 'uff!' and stared out the window he would come and stare with you like OMG WHAT WHAT I LOOK TOO HAI.) She also has an elderly chocolate lab called Cookie, but she lives with her parents.

Growing up I never had any dogs - I think my dad really wanted one as well but his health was getting worse and he was bad enough to the cats and me, never mind a poor pupper - but I've always had friends and relatives with doggos? Like my aunt who I have literally nothing else in common but a love of dogs used to have a beautiful black gundog labrador called Louie, and now she has a standard cockapoo called Oakley who is still a puppy in his head - I think he's probs about one or two now - and a giant galumphing toasted marshmellow of a thing.

I just. I love dogs.

 

My parents' Bostons are the same way. They're also super-quick to rip noses and eyes off. I think it's because they have the bulldog jaws where they can just clamp onto things and not let go. (I've literally seen people lift Elliot off the ground by a toy while playing tug-of-war.) My mom only ever buys specific brands of toys that don't have stuffing because otherwise the entire house ends up littered with it.

 

Yyyyyep, Charlie does that too. You can lift him up with a toy and he does not let go. It's like life and death.

My mom got us a bark box subscription when we took him in, and that's how we found out about the toys without heads thing - things that are, say, car-shaped, last about three weeks. I wouldn't have bought any stuffed toys for him, haha.

 

how'd you end up w/ him? sounds like there's maybe a story there, if u wanna make words abt it?

 

hello fellow dog friends may I talk about my dog here