This podcast is about one of the most extraordinary dogs I’ve met in my career. Even though he’s from a population with a breed name , I don’t and won’t mention which one except to say that, at least for now it’s a population bred for function, specifically to be farm dogs. And because as we know from the Russian fox experiments, behavior changes physiology and that all farms and the canine functions needed on function well on those farms aren’t identical, these dogs naturally look different. To create a cookie-cutter standard that ensures they all look and to some extent act alike would essentially destroy the breed.
And that’s only part of the paradox dogs like him create…
You can hear the wild animal-related podcast to which this one refers here.
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