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Heard a bunch of clattering from the kitchen. Realized I'd left the gate open, so Evelyn was inevitably on the counters. Came into the room a minute later and found her cradling a whisk in her bed.

brighthounds

Thank you so much for this @possiblythreefourthspeahen

quietwingsinthesky

we trust dogs so much they have such massive teeth and we still shove our faces near them to give them little kisses

imalayla

The decadence!

theradicalkanji

She's making it hard to go to bed

elvenferretots

@doberbutts Behold! A working dog!

imalayla

I can't deal with this. They play so cutely

sataraborzoi

An ethereal snoot

#borzoi #sighthound #cinder #snooot

why-animals-do-the-thing

Do you have a snoot noodle or other variation of sighthound? If yes, there’s new heart health research for the breed happening!

A researcher at Texas A&M whose work I’m familiar with is starting a new study looking at genetic factors contributing to heart disease in Borzoi and related breeds. They just put out a call for dog owners who are willing to submit saliva samples & (noodle) medical records. Studies like this need a big sample size! They’re accepting new sign-ups starting now until March 1, 2025, for dogs both in the US and internationally.

Let’s help make some science!

Help us learn more about the genetics of heart disease in Borzoi dogs & sighthound breeds

From the study page:

“Background and purpose

Recent research in Borzoi dogs has revealed that dogs of this breed experience sudden, unexplained death. About 85% of sudden, unexplained deaths in humans are linked to an underlying heart disease. Our existing research in Borzoi dogs has shown that they are predisposed to developing arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms) and dilated cardiomyopathy (a heart muscle disease causing dilated heart chambers and weak pumping function).

Due to our documentation of the frequency of these conditions in Borzoi dogs, we seek to identify responsible genetic variations similar to what is seen in humans with electrical cardiac diseases that trigger arrhythmias and dilated cardiomyopathy.

The objective of our study is to identify genetic mutations associated with heart disease in Borzoi dogs and document their existence in other sighthound breeds.

What happens in this study

We are collecting saliva samples from both healthy Borzoi and Borzoi dogs affected with arrhythmias and/or dilated cardiomyopathy. We will also collect saliva samples from any other sighthound breeds.

We will extract DNA from these samples and perform genomic sequencing on a select number while retaining the remainder for further screening.By analyzing the sequencing data, we can compare the genes of healthy and affected Borzoi dogs and identify variants linked to their heart conditions. We will also compare the findings in Borzoi dogs to results from other sighthound breeds.

Pet owner responsibilities

A swab kit will be sent to you for at home use along with a link to an instructional video on how to properly obtain a swab of the mouth. The kit will contain equipment to collect the saliva swab, a history form for your pet, a client consent form and a shipping label to return samples to us.

Participation requirements

To participate, you must have a Borzoi dog or a sighthound breed that is either healthy or affected by arrhythmias and/or dilated cardiomyopathy. Pets may be any age or sex. Electronic or paper veterinary medical records will need to be provided.

Benefits and risks of participating

There is little to no risk for taking a brief swab of the mouth for saliva collection if procedures outlined in the video are followed. No individual genetic test results will be provided to study participants.

Compensation

There is no cost to the owner for participating in this study. No compensation will be provided.”

bandizoi

The team at TAMU are doing such incredible work for borzoi and this research can help a hell of a lot more breeds. When I lost Selkie to Sudden Cardiac Death in 2022, a sample of her lung was sent to them for genetic sequencing. Her siblings are in this study, as are much of her extended family. I sent blood samples from my girl, Olive. And Bandit, who is 10 and still having beautiful echocardiograms and holters, may be a control for their research.

#TAMU #research #cardiac study

sentient-mawce

RAT MUG!!!!

kamikuninuzuka

@tengutinger

goodluckclove

Hey guys be cool and normal but reblog this with the homemade meal that would get you the most hyped as a child. I need it for reasons.

#tomato soup!

writing-prompt-s

You are constantly mocked for having such a weird superpower by all the other heroes. “The power to make anything into perfectly cooked soup”… One day, a massive meteor is barreling towards earth. As all the other heroes are panicking, you wait perfectly calm, at the impact zone, bowl in hand.

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The hardest part was, you thought, picking what kind of soup. A cold soup, obviously. You were going to be standing at the impact site, and there wasn't a bowl big enough to carry all of that soup. Or at least, none you had in your cupboard. It was going to be hot enough as it was, you didn't need soup burns on top of it.

You had tried to get someone to listen to you. To maybe take you closer, so there was less atmosphere compression. You'd heard that was an issue, that the atmosphere in front of the meteor would compress and the heat and friction was what caused other meteors to flash through the sky. Something like that.

Skyman would have been perfect to bring you up. He could create atmospheric bubbles. And fly. Perfect for creating oxygen voids to knock out villains. He'd used it on you, back in high school, enough to give you a reputation for low blood pressure, but never enough to get caught. It had been funny, to bully Soupy.

But Skyman wouldn't listen. He didn't even pick up his phone. You'd gotten his number at the field trip to Hero Quarters, and you'd been put in a group together. The whole group had been instructed to share numbers, so no one would get lost. You'd gotten lost anyways. You'd never used the number, until last week when the meteor was first detected.

You could see him, kinda. He was up there, doing his best to slow the meteor. Him and the others And it was working well enough that you could see the meteor approach, rather than just a flash and instant death. That would be Inertia, probably. She could slow an object, but it would keep it's momentum. Useful for pulling civilians out of the way of a bullet. Less useful when the Earth itself couldn't be moved.

At least the atmosphere had some time to move away. It was starting to get hot, but you weren't roasted.

It had been a stupid idea, probably. To do this. To stand and stare at certain death. But you thought, hey. At least if I stand at the impact site, I'll die first. You would probably rather do that, having tried, than not try and deal with the predicted century of winter. You've never done well with the cold.

The meteor was closer now. Close enough that Magma was the first to spot you. She was trying to melt the meteor, but wasn't having much luck. Something that an entire atmosphere couldn't vaporize wasn't going to be overly fussed about a little stream of fire.

She was shouting at you. You couldn't hear, probably because of the atmospheric compression. You could guess what she was saying though, and you didn't know why she thought that moving now would help. At all. Even if you ran, you wouldn't make it.

Closer and closer. The bowl was pointless, maybe. Again, you didn't own a bowl big enough to contain the entire meteor. But at the end of this, the least you deserved was a bowl of soup.

Which brought you again to what kind. Gazpacho? Or maybe borscht? You've never tried a fruit soup, although you've heard they were very good. But, hm, you weren't sure you were feeling like a dessert. Something savoury. The place near your house made a delicious naengmyeon. Hopefully you'd be able catch the noodles alright.

A streak of light to your left caught your eye. You recognized that blue of colour. It was heading directly at you. Hurriedly, you turned the ground in front of The Zap into avocado soup. Hopefully the creaminess would slow him down.

It was starting to get very very hot, even with Inertia slowing things down. You tried turning the atmosphere into cold peach soup, which worked? Somehow? It was cooler now at least. More sticky though.

Almost in range. Two hundred meters, you just needed it to get to two hundred meters away.

Or a bit closer. You did want to be able to catch your noodles.

At fifty meters, the meteor vanished with a GLOOP.

Starman, Inertia, Magma and the others weren't able to stop in time, but their crash landings were cushioned by the noodles and the beef. They went to the hospital, but none of them died.

You ended up with a nice bowl of naengmyeon and accolades. Every country wanted to give you a medal. You travelled for a while, and tried as much soup as you could, so you could make your favourites again later. Hilariously, and somewhat uselessly, you were given a soup bowl large enough to bathe in by three different countries. You weren't sure what you'd use it for, now that the meteor was gone. Maybe you could donate it to a soup kitchen.

Maybe you could start a soup kitchen.

Starman never apologized. It was likely he didn't remember you. But that was alright. You would forever treasure the look on his face when the meteor exploded into broth and noodles. And also the photo that some idiot war journalist had taken of you, holding out your soup bowl, while all the other heroes face planted around you. They'd given you a framed copy.

#soup hero

akindplace

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obligatoryhumanadjacent

Sometimes a creature just puts their head on you to stare into your eyes with love.

banji-effect

The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.

theyoungwaldschrat

This is a incredibly rare find. A ball of yarn made from stinging nettle fibers in the Late Neolithic (5900 years old) in what’s now Marin-Epagnier in Switzerland. The thread has been preserved by being carbonized. Look at how much thread that is! And how fine and even it is spun! The skill going into this is absolutely incredible. Imagine the incredible textile work that must’ve been made with that. For a reference here’s a ball of nettle yarn I managed to make with a drop spindle. That took me 300 hours of work.

#fibre crafts #fibre arts #fibre crafts history

We started our day nice and easy. Humans have their coffee after breakfast and dogs have their nap after breakfast.

Then we went on a nice long walk. Possibly the longest one for Bajka. Otto and Lila are experienced hikers so it was a fine walkie for them. They enjoyed some snow but were somewhat less enthusiastic about a whole lot of mud. Crispy frozen grass was fine.

We got home, quite tired but happy.

We all had something warm to eat and went on to do things that make us happy. Be it crocheting, listening to music, painting or sleeping.

Bonus picture:

The Sunset

#whippets #lila #bajka #otto #hiking with dogs #ot is it more like walking our dogs in picturesque settings?

kangals

I joke about it but it is actually super frustrating for me how in the last few weeks Keps taken such a hard backslide re: housetraining/marking inside. Went from being able to free roam to blocking off certain rooms to now wearing a belly band most of the day bc he can’t be trusted. Bc it started so suddenly I’m assuming it’s just an Intact Teenage Boy phase but I’m really trying to be careful and make sure it doesn’t become a habit. I guess I’m thinking maybe keep him in the belly band for a few more weeks just to see if that’s enough for him to move on (he doesn’t try to mark at all while wearing it so it’s definitely not a “I simply cannot hold it” problem it’s def behavioral). And then if that’s still not fixed it we’ll just have to go back to his baby potty training schedule of going out every 30 minutes and gated to whatever room I’m in. And then if that doesn’t work well either have to talk about neutering early (trying to wait until 2yrs but I can’t be living in a piss house) or bringing in aversive methods, both of which I’d like to avoid.

if you went through a similar thing with your dog, lmk what worked for you?

#i have no advice but i have the same problem with Bajka #she was so good she used to signal she needs to go #now she just goes whether pee or poo #i think she just really hates the cold #all while Lila watches terrified that someone would do that inside #and bajka runs off to her crate because she knows a crime has been committed #lila never had any accidents inside she just had diarrhea once when we were at work but that doesn't count she's excused #i dont know how to cope so anyone with any ideas: help