Moonpie isn't always great with big dogs

[conuly]

Actually, she loathes them.

Interestingly, though, if she sees that Finn can interact with another dog or a human without anybody freaking out, she'll calm down and turn back into lovable Moonpie, eager to socialize.

Finn is rubbing off on her! Good doggie, Finn!

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Comments

[alchemia]

author of the chicken article obviously doesnt know chickens. those are 'common' breeds you can get anywhere (i have most of them, or used to, even 'rosecomb leghorn' is not down to 50 (and could easily be recreated anyway if needbe, as chicken breeds are not treated the same as dog breeds where the populations are cutoff from eachother, resulting in bottlenecking and downward spiral of inbreeding)). even truly rare breeds like ayam cemani (google these, so beautiful imho), olandsk dwarfs, hedmoras, tinamous and mapuches and so on.... many people will try to profit from this, selling eggs on ebay or on chucken fancier sites for i kid you not $100 per one egg... others are more reasonable with price or open to trade knowing the point is to get the genetics out there, not to create a dutch tulip 'bubble'. I've also had/have some of these rarer breeds that this author and chicken saviour never seem to have heard off, or saw no reason to mention them in an an article about preserving rare bird genetics in favour of mentioning some of the most commonly bred and kept backyard breeds... weird.
sorry for mini rant, genetics and chickens are both passions if mine

[conuly]

Thanks. I really do know nothing about chickens other than that they lay eggs (or is that snakes?) so... yeah.

[alchemia]

both do :-)

[siderea]

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I've only skimmed the paper, but it seems this is the rare research article which is actually much less dumb than it's made to sound in news coverage. They actually tested a huge bunch of interesting and compelling hypotheses. Those poor subjects: they were made to fill out an amazing number of questionnaires, many of which were formal psychological instruments (Big5, e.g.)

[siderea]

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"Famous Viking Believed a Warrior Had Two X Chromosomes, No Y Chromosome"
Subtitle: "Gender Identity Still a Mystery"
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[larryhammer]

You said it before I had a chance ...

[zesty_pinto]

Isn't the hookworm epidemic a mixed blessing? I think it was inevitable because there've been pushes for people to get hookworm treatment for allergies for the past few years.

To continue on the poverty-third world disease remark, I would like to offer this article on how the South is starting to resemble third world countries in terms of diseases.

[archangelbeth]

That veggies article is EEEEEE.


(So Finn is Moonpie's Therapy Dog, kinda? Or at least a "grounding" dog... Yay for calming influence!)

[conuly]

I think he's more like a Good Example. She sees that there's nothing to freak out about, and so she ceases to freak out.

It works in reverse, too. If he's flipping out about the disappearance of humans from his immediate vicinity, seeing Moonpie run back and forth will cue him in to the fact that he hasn't been abandoned forever and there are other options besides standing perfectly still and howling.

[archangelbeth]

Honestly, that is kind of awesome that they are cueing each other into easier-to-live-with ways. Hooray for teenyPack!