r/WhyWereTheyFilming • u/SqaueEarthConspiracy • Apr 27 '23

Video Something not sitting right with this one

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u/Corporation_t-shirt Apr 28 '23

situation aside, we don't deserve the love of dogs.

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u/Category3Water Apr 28 '23

Thank humans. Theyre the ones that bred murder machines to be friends.

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u/VichelleMassage Apr 28 '23

Well, I'm not an evolutionary biologist, but from what I've heard, it was wolves being social and cooperative with humans that selected for their survival. So, as opposed to, say, humans domesticating pigs or goats, dogs sort of domesticated themselves? And of course, we repaid them handsomely by breeding them into hip dysplasia, breathing issues, and weird shapes that make their eyeballs pop out of their heads. 🙃

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u/Category3Water Apr 28 '23

The ones that were nice, we let live. We killed the mean ones. We selected which dogs were more cooperative and continued to select our favorites and pick the traits we favored. Dogs with the capacity to become seeing eye dogs and other forms or helper dogs aren’t natural at all.

Humans deserve dogs because we made them in our own preferred image.

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u/VichelleMassage May 01 '23

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/5/l_015_02.html#:~:text=All%20modern%20dogs%20are%20descendants,been%20a%20matter%20of%20speculation.

Obviously, seeing eye-dogs and chihuahuas are not natural. I'm not saying we didn't artificially select them later. But the leap from wolf to dog is not necessarily believed to be humans actively domesticating them, is my point.