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The illustration in the article looks a bit like a turnspit dog too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog
by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
The illustration in the article looks a bit like a turnspit dog too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog
- TylerE 3y agoThat's fascinating, especially this bit at the end: The gene for chondrodysplasia in various short-legged breeds has been confirmed to trace back to a single ancestral mutation [presumably from Egypt, as the Egyptians since short legged dogs had been found in Egyptian households dating back thousands of years. Egypt was also thousands of years in advance of modern pet keeping by quasi-domesticating Ball Pythons.