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whiskey, the turnspit dog

#art tag #eyestrain #taxidermy #canine #canids #turnspit dog #fighitng for my life to convince myself to do anything

The Paleo Party Guest of the day is the Turnspit Dog!

Did you know domestic breeds can qualify as going extinct? For instance, some breeds of dogs whose purpose ended have gone extinct like these little dogs utilized for turning spits in medieval kitchens, which became defunct as cooking technology improved.

This sticker can be found in my Holocene Extinctions listing.

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#my art #science #illustration #extinct animals #dog #turnspit dog

if you didn't know already, the turnspit dog was like an actual real species!!! and not just a job that a dog could have

this is apparently what they looked like:

this is the noble hound that Robin lost his job to

#oxventure #oxventure wyrdwood #robin oatcake #the dog that stole robins job #turnspit dog #sadly extinct now :(#robin got his revenge ig

stimmyneko150 Day 4: Favorite dinosaur/extinct organism

The Turnspit Dog

today's daily is: the turnspit dog! (canis familiaris)

( requested by @dogmans-posts :] )

#extinct daily #turnspit dog #cooking dog #kitchen dog #canis familiaris #canis vertigus #art #drawing #dog art #dog drawing #dog #animal art #little foot warming dogs......

Extinct dogsona time!! Their name is Ermyne and they're a turnspit dog from 15th century England (late medieval to early Tudor period). A lowly animal with crooked legs and a morose personality, who has been reared from puppyhood on a wholesome and fortifying diet of tallow greaves and barley-meal. It's hard to say whether they've eaten a single scrap of meat in their life.

They're one of several kitchen dogs kept by an urban tavern, all of whom take turns running in a dog wheel to turn roasting meat over a roaring fire, and their fur is sometimes singed from having hot coals thrown at them when they slack off. On Sundays, the cook takes them to church to use them as a foot-warmer. Ermyne loves going to church, it's enrichment for them!

Needless to say, Ermyne is my realsona, and their life is completely indistinguishable from my life <3

#animal art #furry #canine #dogs #dog oc #turnspit dog #15th century #medieval #small artist #artists on tumblr #own ocs #ermyne

The Turnspit "Canis vertagus" and the Pug "Le Doguin"

There are two breeds of the turnspit, the one having the forelegs straight, and the other with them crooked. Both are long-backed, short-legged, strange looking animals, and are now rarely kept except as curiosities. Formerly, however, the turnspit had the honour of turning the roast-beef of Old England j but since machinery has been substituted for his fore-paws, Othello’s occupation’s gone. He’s no longer.

"---- a dog that turns the spit,

Bestirs himself, and plies his feet

To climb the wheel; but all in vain,

His own weight brings him back again,

And still he's in the self-same place

Where, at his setting out, he was." (Hudibras)

The right-hand figure in the above engraving represents the pug, a common pet dog a few years ago, but now seldom seen.

Image and text from A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

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#recently extinct #mammals #canines #dogs #turnspit dog #toy dogs #pugs