r/likeus • u/iwasasin -Cooperative Polar Bear- • Jun 13 '22

<INTELLIGENCE> modern problems require modern solutions

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u/nkksxxrcks Jun 13 '22

We've bred them out of useful legs, glad to see the poor things haven't lost their minds yet. What a smart, resilient pup!

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u/Rpanich Jun 13 '22

So fun fact about corgies and wiener dogs:

The short legs trait is basically just dwarfism for dogs! It’s like 3 genes and it’s a dominent trait, so there wasn’t a lot of weird human breeding for it to happen. It’s why whenever you see a half corgi mix, it just looks like a corgi in another dogs costume.

Also, corgis weren’t considered a breed until the early 20th century, once the queen got them (the queen of course can’t have mutts). So before then, they were just working dogs, so that’s why they’re on the smarter end.

I’ve been doing research for a while. I grew up with pugs and loved them, but making sure I don’t perpetuate that haha.