I Take Issue With Some Of These So Called Dog 'Experts...'
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Poodles are gay. Toy Poodles are the gayest dog ever.
Be a man. Buy a proper dog.
Be a man. Buy a proper dog.
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Then how do they reproduce?
You mean like a weapon dog...like chavs have?
Mitosis.
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Reading this makes me miss our toy poodle, a lovely, smart little pain in the bum, but I don't think anyone ever described him as manly 
The most common description of him from us was either furface, or worse
Re the fur, IIRC it was (like most characteristics) bred into them, by mating dogs with the required/desired features, the same way you get the characteristic faces on pugs and bulldogs etc.
So to get "wool like" fur you bred dogs that had slightly wooly fur or fur that had a better handing of water.
The most common description of him from us was either furface, or worse
Re the fur, IIRC it was (like most characteristics) bred into them, by mating dogs with the required/desired features, the same way you get the characteristic faces on pugs and bulldogs etc.
So to get "wool like" fur you bred dogs that had slightly wooly fur or fur that had a better handing of water.
Actually, you can. Or a poodle jumper or whatever. There are even businesses that will take your bag of dog hair and make it into yarn for you. It's not practical even with very hairy dogs, but it is possible.
Lions will kill and eat wild dogs if there's nothing else on the menu, I remember seeing a documentary about it, was a few years ago now.
Well ok, desperate animals struggling to survive may eat other apex predators. It's not a natural situation though. Humans can become cannibals also but the natural order of things is that predators predate herbivores.
I think it's rather sad that it's so common for people to proudly boast that they find it too difficult to read a small amount of text. Unless, of course, they're mentally handicapped or it's written in a language that's foreign to them.
A poodle from a few hundred years ago would probably be fine in the wild. A modern poodle, which has been specifically bred to grow far more hair than is practical and requires frequent hairdressing as a result, wouldn't be. A toy poodle, which has also been specifically bred to be too small, would have an even harder time.
There are people today who have modern standard size poodles as working hunting dogs, splashing and swimming in marshes and ponds to retrieve killed birds. Those people have to frequently cut their poodles' hair. Which poodles in the wild couldn't do for each other. And those people don't use toy poodles.
Toy poodles were created specifically to be toys. They were created to be fashion accessories for noblewomen. They don't have to be, but the breeding that has been done to them makes them impractical for the wild.
A poodle from a few hundred years ago would probably be fine in the wild. A modern poodle, which has been specifically bred to grow far more hair than is practical and requires frequent hairdressing as a result, wouldn't be. A toy poodle, which has also been specifically bred to be too small, would have an even harder time.
There are people today who have modern standard size poodles as working hunting dogs, splashing and swimming in marshes and ponds to retrieve killed birds. Those people have to frequently cut their poodles' hair. Which poodles in the wild couldn't do for each other. And those people don't use toy poodles.
Toy poodles were created specifically to be toys. They were created to be fashion accessories for noblewomen. They don't have to be, but the breeding that has been done to them makes them impractical for the wild.
What about when leopards kill caiman? Or jaguar/leopards that kill snakes and other small predators, all apex predators in their own right but will kill anything if they are desperate enough. Then you have hyenas, that will eat anything, they don't just kill, if they come across a dead lion for eg they'll eat it. They wouldn't kill one unless it was already severely injured.
Yeah stuff that.
Yes I agree but I was talking about the natural order of things. Now we are talking about exceptions. The natural order of things is that the apex predators at the top of the food chain are carnivores which predate herbivores. Predators rarely actively hunt other predators, they compete with them for prey. They may attack and kill other predators, but this isn't for food it's for survival.
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Erm... A poodle's fur comes from a sheep?!? Wtf?
Can only assume op has only seen a sheep from a distance and not actually felt the fleece otherwise such a ridiculous thought wouldn't have occurred, also the "toy" part of it's name surely indicates its origin as a handbag accessory...
Pretty sure I've been trolled here
Can only assume op has only seen a sheep from a distance and not actually felt the fleece otherwise such a ridiculous thought wouldn't have occurred, also the "toy" part of it's name surely indicates its origin as a handbag accessory...
Pretty sure I've been trolled here
Interesting aside - hyenas actually evolved from feline, not canine ancestors. Similarities to dogs are just convergent evolution.