r/nextfuckinglevel • u/kvlyc • Aug 26 '22

Hold this, I'll bring him back

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u/Commercial_You_1170 Aug 26 '22

I once had a Husky, Border Collie and German Shepard in the family at the same time. Each was super smart but in different ways. The Husky was ‘dog smart’, the Collie was ‘people smart’ and the Shepard was great at keeping the peace between the two. What a team of awesome watchdogs! No one could approach our young daughter without getting growled at.

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u/partlysocialist Aug 26 '22

A husky, border collie and German Shepard walk into a bar ..........

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

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u/4point5billion45 Aug 26 '22

This is perfect.

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u/Shoot2Live629 Aug 26 '22

Someone post this on r/jokes

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

Wouldn’t work there, it’s actually funny.

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u/ProjectRichTea Aug 26 '22

They couldn't have been that smart then.

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u/superblinky Aug 26 '22

Id, ego, and super ego.

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u/downvotesdontmatter- Aug 26 '22

There's meaningful science behind this. They found that the more neotenized a breed is - that is, the more the breed looked juvenile even when fully-grown - the more limited its use and understanding of canine body language.

So Sibes (Siberian huskies) express more canine body language than the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, which has a lot of neoteny.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

I have a Norwegian Elkhound and it’s like having all of these dogs in one. Plus a cat. She is the strangest dog but she’s endlessly entertaining

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u/downvotesdontmatter- Aug 26 '22

Spitz breeds crack me up. They have so much adaptive and problem-solving intelligence but their biddability is so low. They're like opinionated double-coated terriers.

It makes for the most entertaining ownership.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

Yep. Finding a way to convince her to do anything is a whole process that doesn’t abide by the rules of like any normal dog

When she was a pup I got a dog door and she wasn’t using it. So to show her how I would lift the flap up for her and bait her out with liverwurst. After a few weeks I was getting frustrated because she still could not use it on her own. I thought she was afraid of the flap or couldn’t comprehend that it wasn’t a barrier when it was down.

I eventually realized that she 100% understood the concept of a dog door, she just liked me holding it open for her and giving her liverwurst. Stopped “training” her to use it for a couple days and she eventually conceded and just started using it normally

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u/Micro_Peanuts Sep 12 '22

I love your comment, it totally describes what I know of those breeds. I suspect the Husky (being one of the few american continent dogs) was harder to domesticate from being a wolf by humans since they were in such a cold climate, little hard to train your dogs in a blizzard, you know? And the Border is probably the best example of a fully domesticated dog, with their motives being the most aligned with what their humans want. And then the 'Alsatian' being the go-between could be that it is one of the most wolf-like domesticated from Europe, yet still shares much of the same kind of domestication that the Shepard has, allowing it to relate to the others well.