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I have a dog that pretty unambiguously follows camera feeds to know what is happening in front of the house. This is both recorded and sustained by countless observed instances where it looked at the cameras to know someone was coming before they made their presence known. It was not taught behaviour, but self-learned.
The only thing I am uncertain about is if it has the capability to discern that the screen represents the real space in front of the house or if it simply taught itself the "cue" that seeing certain types of activity on it signifies something is about to happen, without making the connection it represents a real space.
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>anti cat schizo is still samefagging
How pathetic
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>>5047858
I asked for more schizo and you gave me more schizo. Thank you!
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>>5047869
Meds, schizo
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Dogs are as smart and self aware as some monkeys and should be given partial personhood and dominion over inferior lifeforms
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>>5047802
>6 sentences
>wall of text
Do you even have a brain anymore or has the toxotransmosis turned it all to mush?

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What's an animal that if it went extinct you wouldn't care?
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Ticks are evidence that the "God" of this world is at best, not paying attention, and at worst; actually pure evil. Why would a benevolent, omniscient god, create 1000 different kinds of these?
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>>5048744
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>>5016588
blob fish, they need to be put out of their misery
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>>5016591
LE HUMANS ARE ZE REAL MONSTERS.
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>>5016859
>Various harmful parasites
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks

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ITT: we design new dog breeds

I designed a dog to protect beehives from honey thieves and wild beasts
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>>5001736
saluki enthusiasm is a red flag
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>>5001711
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>>5048704
That's a man.
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>>5048818
i made a new breed
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>>5049064
>anger of pitbull and chihuahua combined
Kek, i've seen a Chit-bull in real life, it was a good boy though.

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"don't talk to me or my daughter ever again" edition

Found a juvenile widow in my charcoal chimney. She's still got the gold stripe down her back. I'll have to get her set up with a bigger enclosure soon but I think she's okay in the sling box for now. Also think the middle widow is working on some eggs, it's been a week or so since she ate and she's still looking thicc.
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>>5046483
Cages lookin good!
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Hey you faggots need to pay rent now
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I just saw my first stinker of the season. Fall is officially here.
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>>5049057
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Are there any beetles that don't fly like a bucket?

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elephant seal best seal
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seal tier list?
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>>5047236
https://tiermaker.com/create/seal-species-736980
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>>5047236
hey what the fuck is a hooded sea-
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
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>>5046888
They don't even look like real animals
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>>5048630

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>so many amazing animals throughout the history of the world
>we ended up living with the lamest versions of them
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Huh
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>>5040576
A retard's interpretation of survival of the fittest.
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>>5040865
>Mastodon
>Stegodon
>Cuvieronius
>Notiomastodon
Why did early humans have to kill off the cool offshoot groups and leave only the most boring members of the crown group?
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>>5048324
the people in places where pachyderms survived are intelligencemogged by elephants
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>>5039540
That's why we ended up living to begin with. No giant mega predators that would actively hunt us, or giant mega herbivores that would actively squash us.

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he died today at 18:
https://sisinmaru.com/2025/09/06/%e3%81%84%e3%81%a4%e3%82%82%e5%bf%9c%e6%8f%b4%e3%81%97%e3%81%a6%e3%81%8f%e3%81%a0%e3%81%95%e3%82%8b%e7%9a%86%e3%81%95%e3%81%be%e3%81%b8%e3%80%82to-everyone-who-always-supports-maru/
now that was a kino cat
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>>5043954
Apparently there have been three, at least as far back as desuarchive goes.
https://desuarchive.org/an/search/type/sticky/
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>>5047768
This
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>>5043409
RIP to a real legend
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_JxWMfMwZc
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I just found out. RIP to a real one.

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Post birds, appreciate birds
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He let me get really close, but not pet him. Within a foot. Had pretty red eyes. I threw some bran cereal at him, but wasn't interested.
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He disappeared into a giant bush so probably safe from predators now. Close up of the injury.
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>>5027978
if there is birds around, the chance of predators being close by is lessened. its like being around a warm fire. birbs are signs of peace
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>>5022476
Look at the bombastic side eye this fellow is giving you. Like "Yeah, I took your cilantro fucker, watchu gon do 'bout it?"
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>>5021679
> fuck, I hope no one saw that

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Fuck yeah
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>>5045650
I can't wait to eat human flesh
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>>4996971
Yeah girl. Get that nut. Earn it.
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What does giraffe taste like?
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>>5048949
Depends where you taste it

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Why does monke have tity? Human growth hormone exposure??
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>>5047423
Grok is this real?
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>>5047221
hes fucking mental
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>>5047762
Not curious, I just commend the time sink you put, plus you got reactions so good on you. lol
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>>5046825
>eugenics could solve this
By making woman stronger, with superior backs and muscles and a body type to give them even bigger boobs?
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>>5046825
Reddit and lgbt is that way

>make eye contact with my dog
>starts wagging his tail
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>>5046743
No, never use a crate as a punishment. Crates are often used for health related kenneling, emergency (ie: entire house and yard open for contractors), and transport. Come up with something else.

Some people tie shithead dogs to the porch (and cats get tossed in the bathroom).
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>>5046743
>reasonable white men of good character: "in the doghouse" is synonymous with "in trouble and meeting the consequences"
>internet addled soimutt: soooo uhh should i use the pet carrier or just punch my dog
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>>5045279
One of the many ways a dog will make you smile.
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>>5045793
Just get another dog (from a shelter, ofc).
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>>5046697
>Women do fake shit at all times for attention
Not big surprise

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Some things she won't eat but if she sees you eating BREAD?!? She goes crazy.
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>>5047420
Is your dog black?
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>>5048924
What a charming negress :)
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>>5048924
He has a black face, but he is not black at heart. He loves watermelon, but I think he loves honeydew the most.
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>>5048932
>He has a black face, but he is not black at heart
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>>5046759
This.

Didn't know animals were collectibles.
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>>5048447
I'm not the one fucking apes

That's you, because you think you're an orangutan
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>>5048454
Projection, you think you are an orangutan.
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>>5048458
Don't make me summon the hominid schizo, anon
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>>5048286
I will own animals and feed them meat
Bite me, vegroid foids
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>>5048930
https://youtu.be/75kHq9cHSEg?si=KqLBw3lXDJOHhJwI

Dogs won.
https://pacificbattleship.com/battleshipussiowa/learn-the-history/the-story-of-victory-the-dog/
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>>5048567
You’re thinking of cats or trilobites
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>>5048644
This.
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>>5048567
Only good post ITT

>>5048644
>>5048650
Samefag
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>>5048644
Absolutely correct. All reddit does is copy what they think 4chan is based on 10+ year old thirdhand info from other websites.

>>5048477
Inspiring. God bless America and our armed forces dog's.
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>>5048921
Based image and based and correct post.

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I have always and dogs ang I bought a cat for the first time. My friends also have cats and I think they're basically retarded or autistic. They stay in absurd position for hour or keep looking the wall where nothing happen. you call them and they don't come. When you pour water for the 1000th time in the pot and they look like it's the first time they see some magic fluid. Yeah I think they're definitely retarded animals.
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>>5025055
Cats literally only have the mental capacity to learn 3 words
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My brother has a pack of cats and after one spent 3 days at the vet the rest forgot they knew him and attacked him relentlessly. Bro considered rehoming but eventually with enough catnip and strategic separation he mkultra’d them into playing nice (it took a month)
He was raised by 2 of the cats as a kitten

My dog met my parents dog for the first time in 2 years and they acted like they had always known eachother (and both are aloof with new dogs)
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>>5025040
>don't let him kill me
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>>5045578
Don't reply to him in earnest anon this is just an anti-cat schizo thread
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Yes. 1/2 as many neurons in a thinner, less dense cerebral cortex with smaller frontal lobes... compared to a chihuahua.

You got to give it to cats for having reflexes and instincts tho. Dogs are like us. They mostly do what they learn. Their automatic behavior is severely lacking and they become very disordered without a good education so it's easy to fuck up a dog.

Cats have no brain to mis-configure so it's almost impossible to fuck up a cat. The downside is training a cat is more like programming a computer. The cat's simpler mind won't fill in the gaps if your conditioning protocols are imperfect and don't directly create new pathways. But cats also won't resist proper conditioning. Dogs are reasoning and bargaining animals who can work with improper conditioning if they want to, and refuse to cooperate with proper conditioning (even refusing food or taking it and spitting it out) if they don't.

Competently human-raised dogs > dogs raised by their mother and father> human-neglected and abused dogs


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