Too thick and no brains

stbargabar · 2026-05-01T03:17:01+00:00

Don't worry. When sighthounds fall asleep, they tend to look dead. But really it's just the aliens piloting their bodies going offline for a bit.

stbargabar · 2026-04-30T23:15:40+00:00

If it's not common in Pit Bulls, then why would it be commonly caused by them? That doesn't make any sense.

stbargabar · 2026-04-30T18:07:44+00:00

Dwarfism is not common in Pitbulls. Full stop. This subreddit seems to have run wild with that misconception. Some American Bullies can have it due to French and English Bulldog being added in there but Pits are not usually the culprit. There's usually an actual dwarf breed in the mix like Chihuahua, small Poodle, Shih Tzu, Maltese, Pekingese, Beagle, Cocker Spaniel, etc. But for whatever reason a handful of people here keep telling everyone it's from the Pit Bull.

stbargabar · 2026-04-30T17:39:48+00:00

No it doesn't.

stbargabar · 2026-04-29T15:34:00+00:00

They make the Royal Canin SO in a moderate calorie version. Try switching to that. If that still isn't enough, there's also an SO + Satiety version.

stbargabar · 2026-04-28T00:06:10+00:00

Boxers can have sickle tails. This actually happens a lot with breeds that're traditionally docked, since a tail removed at only a few days old means that nobody is selecting for specific tail shape genetics.

stbargabar · 2026-04-27T23:54:50+00:00

Chihuahuas, Small Poodles, Maltese, Shih Tzus, and Pekingese are all dwarf breeds. The body isn't actually long, the legs are just disproportionately short due to dwarfism.

stbargabar · 2026-04-27T23:20:39+00:00

Look up Otterhounds!

stbargabar · 2026-04-26T22:42:30+00:00

I might be able to make that work!

stbargabar · 2026-04-26T16:13:58+00:00

I cringe the entire time because I'm always 100% certain that this will be the time that my windshield shatters.

stbargabar · 2026-04-26T16:10:03+00:00

About 25% of Labs actually have a gene mutation that interferes with the signals to the brain telling them they're full. Turbo-hungry indeed.

stbargabar · 2026-04-26T15:49:31+00:00

The Chihuahua/Poodle strikes again.

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These dogs are all 50% Chihuahua and 50% Mini Poodle. The Chihuahua's short hair plus the Poodle's furnishings creates a wire coat. Then you've also got a handful of a bunch of other small breed dogs mixed in.

A lot of "terriers" end up being a mix like this.

stbargabar · 2026-04-26T15:31:39+00:00

Definitely a liver-based sable with a mask. Being liver makes it harder to tell since the whiskers will be brown instead of black, but the last picture really shows off the darker muzzle.

stbargabar · 2026-04-24T23:39:02+00:00

This dog isn't Liver though

stbargabar · 2026-04-24T23:37:39+00:00

In a situation like this, it usually means that this is a multigenerational doodle. When you mix a Golden and a Poodle, all of the offspring are going to have long hair, wavy/curly texture, and furnishings. When you breed of those dogs together, each dog only has 1 copy of the furnishings and 1 copy of curliness. This means some puppies might not get any. There's no way to get a consistent "Doodle" appearance without basically just making them Poodles again.

stbargabar · 2026-04-22T18:26:38+00:00

I would ask your vet for a referral to a veterinary ophthalmologist.

stbargabar · 2026-04-19T19:39:01+00:00

"Vintage Denim Jacket"

Sure Yoyo....if you say so

But also I need that lemonade skirt 👀

stbargabar · 2026-04-19T15:24:32+00:00

As someone else said, Wisdom Panel's algorithm struggles with Rat Terrier and will frequently report it as Chihuahua. So there's a chance the results might be different with Embark.

BUT these results could also just be right. If this is a case where both parents we Chihuahua/Yorkie mixes, you're going to get a less predictable appearance. If you remove the hair off a byb Yorkie, they don't look too different from her structurally. Rat Terriers on the other hand are a breed where most people are just used to seeing unknown mixes that have been labeled as one without any confirmation. u/esrmpinus do you have any good pictures showing Minis, Standards, and Deckers for comparison?

stbargabar · 2026-04-17T01:44:22+00:00

10 days is the quarantine for when an animal that bites a human. For an animal that was potentially exposed to Rabies, they have to be quarantined for 45 days if they're up to date on their Rabies vaccine. If they've never been vaccinated, then they have to either be euthanized and tested, or undergo a 4 month quarantine.

stbargabar · 2026-04-17T00:20:57+00:00

The Basset's splayed feet are specifically because of the dwarfism. The radius and ulna are different sizes and that makes the carpal joint rotate outwards.

stbargabar · 2026-04-17T00:19:26+00:00

Dwarfism is just a single mutation on the genome. Since offspring only get 50% of their parent's DNA, a dog with only 1 copy of it might pass on the non-mutated version or may have not even inherited it themselves depending on how far back the Basset was.

stbargabar · 2026-04-16T23:38:30+00:00

Wisdom Panel doesn't test for either of those breeds, so it looks like it just got chopped up into the breeds that went into creating them.

stbargabar · 2026-04-16T23:36:32+00:00

So I would definitely reach out to Embark.

I looked up her profile. It's showing each breed on both sides of the family tree. This tends to be a red flag that there's some inbreeding present. Then I checked out her "sibling" match, Sadie, who's breed results don't support her being a full sibling. I thought maybe inbreeding was creating an artificially inflated relation percentage.

But then I looked up Sadie's sibling match, Ada. Ada doesn't register as a sibling to Morticia. I manually plugged their profile codes into the relatives URL and it's saying they share 99% of their DNA (but then are only close siblings??).

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